How the Sixers have navigated their long break between playoff series
The hollers and cheers could be heard from the opposite side of a wall separating the 76ers’ practice gym from a workroom inside their Camden facility. When asked a few minutes later what had caused such a ruckus behind closed doors, standout forward Tobias Harris replied with, “We [were] just playing knockout. That’s what we’ve been doing with our lives lately.”
It gave MVP frontrunner Joel Embiid the maximum opportunity to heal, prompting coach Doc Rivers to concede that, if this series had instead begun Saturday, “I don’t know how realistic that would have been” for Embiid to play. The coach then unofficially projected Embiid as doubtful to be available Monday, but that would have been the date of Game 2 had the Celtics-Hawks series finished in five games instead of six.Yet this break has been strange, Rivers and players acknowledge.
Rivers said his coaching staff initially scripted a week-long plan from last Sunday through Friday, before the Hawks’ Trae Young added two additional days by sinking a deep three-pointer to win Game 5 against the Celtics. The Sixers took Sunday and Monday off, before practicing Tuesday through Thursday. Friday was another off day, before practices Saturday and Sunday ahead of a Sunday afternoon flight to Boston.Celtics open as huge favorites in series vs.
The layoff has also allowed the Sixers to absorb each night’s playoff games for entertainment and teaching purposes. Standout guard Tyrese Maxey said that, after returning home from the practice facility, he eats, takes a nap “and then I sit on my couch from about 7 to like 12:30 — 1 a.m. and just watch every single game.
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