PHILADELPHIA — When the Clippers visited the 76ers in mid-February 2020, second-year guard Shake Milton played just 42 seconds. He contributed zero counting statistics toward the home team’s seven-point victory.
Milton, then, was no priority on the Clippers’ scouting report 20 days later for the Sixers’ visit to Los Angeles. “If he was, we didn’t talk about him much,” recalled Doc Rivers, Los Angeles’ head coach at the time. “And then we couldn’t stop him.”
He had snuck into the starting lineup by replacing an injured Ben Simmons.