Back to the Philadelphia 76ers Newsfeed

We’re just 32 games into the Embiid-Harden era — and the results are mostly great

Roughly midway through the fourth quarter Friday, the Sixers were trying to seal a win over the undermanned Warriors. With his team up eight, James Harden made an incredible play look fairly routine.

It’s what great players do.

Harden grabbed a ball off the rim and almost instantaneously turned and tossed a pass nearly the length of the court into Danuel House, Jr’s bread basket. Touchdown, Sixers.

Is there any player that finds those look-ahead passes better than The Beard?

“Tom Brady’s pretty good [at deep passes],” Doc Rivers joked. “But yeah, James, he’s an elite passer.