Hope springs eternal in every NBA team with two young star guards and should-be-better All-Star teammates despite a dramatic and historically bad start to the season. Thanks to Tyrese Maxey and Jared McCain’s Friday night heroics over the Brooklyn Nets, the Philadelphia 76ers improved to a 3-12 record to begin the 2024-25 NBA season.
History says that’s nearly too big of a hole to climb out of and stand on the vaunted land of the postseason. Nearly. I won’t get into historical accounts of how many times NBA teams with the Sixers’ exact record at this exact point in the season have gone on to make the playoffs.