The Sixers fell 114-112 to the Celtics in Game 5 on Wednesday, ending Philadelphia’s season. That was a wild game, and Joel Embiid had a chance to tie it up three times with less than 20 seconds to go. Had the Sixers gotten the win and taken the series back to Philadelphia down 3-2, who knows what could have happened. But they didn’t and they didn’t, so their season’s over.
What a season! As Paul Flannery wrote in his series capper, this is the beginning of what should be a beautiful rivalry given both teams’ youth and excellence. The Sixers really don’t need to be asking themselves any tough questions this summer. Of course their young stars have flaws -- Ben Simmons’ jump shot, Joel Embiid’s endurance -- but this is Step 1 of their journey. Once they won 50 games and made the playoffs, everything else was really icing.
Tim Cato enumerates all the reasons to be excited by Philadelphia. Don’t forget that on next Tuesday, the Sixers will likely officially pick up the No. 10 pick in this year’s NBA Draft from the Lakers. (If the pick ends up No. 2 or 3, Boston gets it. These teams’ assets are wild.) They still have Markelle Fultz in the bag. The Process isn’t over.
This really is the beginning of something special for the Sixers. Losing in the playoffs hurts more than losing all those dozens of games over the past four years. But it’s a good kind of hurt, isn’t it?
Wednesday’s Score
Celtics 114, Sixers 112
Boston wins 4-1
Recaps: CelticsBlog | Liberty Ballers
Thursday’s Schedule
There is no schedule! Because all four conference semifinals series ended in five games or less, we have three days without basketball. Consider it a dress rehearsal for the looming offseason.
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Zito Madu is absolutely right about the ridiculous assertion that Becky Hammon is somehow cutting the line by getting an interview for a head coach position. There is no line. On his side of the debate, ESPN’s Amin Elhassan laid out some criteria that all recent head coach hires meet in some way: they played in the NBA, or they have been a head coach somewhere, or they have been an NBA assistant for five years. Hammon meets none of them. But here’s what particularly striking to me. Elhassan is strictly limiting the player lane to those whose careers were in the NBA, which rules out Hammon (one of the very best women’s players during her time). There’s no such limit placed on the head coach lane. That’s how we get criteria that allows in Brad Stevens, who had 100 percent of his coaching experience in the Horizon League (a mid-major college conference) before coming to the NBA. That’s how we get criteria that allows in David Blatt, whose coaching experience came entirely overseas in inferior league. Former coaches can come from anywhere -- minor NCAA conference, European leagues -- but players can only come from the NBA? You see the problem here, yes?
Tremendously fun post from Rick O’Donnell assessing LeBron’s claim that the 2018 rookie class was the best since his own 2003 class. Don’t sleep on 2013!
Luka Doncic picked up the youngest triple-double in Spanish league history. I cannot wait for Wonder Boy in the NBA.
Great Zach Lowe piece on the Kyle Korver-Kevin Love two-man game. You forget how good these guys are at passing because we’re always so focused on their shooting and, in Love’s case, rebounding.
Kevin Arnovitz asks if The Process was worth it.
Jayson Tatum has a nasty little stepback.
Seriously, go watch the episode of REWINDER on MJ’s most famous shot. So much fun.
Well, that’s ... uh, something: Paul George will have a knee scope. No basketball for 6-8 weeks.
Dwane Casey won the Coach of the Year from the coaches’ association. There was a good deal of hubbub that Brad Stevens got shut out of the voting, which tells you more about Brad Stevens’ broad internet fanbase more than it does about the other coaches.
Rockets celebration meme video: genius or an incomprhensible mess?
The upside of the lack of viability of leaving school early for most women players is that many players attain some wonderful degrees, which really helps their post-playing careers, as is the case with Bethany Donaphin, who has been promoted to head of WNBA league ops.
Rick Carlisle declares he is not interested in the Bucks job, quashing a rumor that like basically no one outside of Milwaukee or Dallas even heard in the first place.
And finally: a very sweet letter from Victor Oladipo to a Leukemia patient.
Be excellent to each other.
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