I blame the announcer’s curse for that stressful game. At the beginning of tonight’s broadcast, it was mentioned that this matchup against the Hornets was a trap game, sandwiched between Sunday’s big win against the Milwaukee Bucks and tomorrow’s rivalry game against the Boston Celtics. The curse was on and the Sixers were never able to take over the game and put the Hornets away definitively until the final buzzer sounded.
I may be (definitely am) burying the lede here. The Sixers defeated the Charlotte Hornets tonight by a score of 118-114, sweeping the season series.