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Sixers enter 2022-23 NBA season with high expectations, but several daunting questions linger

Can the 76ers live up to their own hype?

The Philadelphia Inquirer

2022–23 NBA Predictions: Award Winners

Our picks for MVP, Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and more.

Sports Illustrated

NBA Entertainment Rankings: The Most Fun Teams to Watch

Pelicans, Warriors and Nuggets are among the most entertaining teams to watch this upcoming season. See where other squads land.

Sports Illustrated

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Victor Oladipo talks highly of Chet Holmgren on JJ Redick’s podcast

"Someone who has surprised me is Chet. Just honestly seeing how really lengthy he is in person and obviously he can score the ball."

USA Today Sports Media Group

Three Big Questions for the 76ers for This Season

Is James Harden still a superstar? Can Joel Embiid play like an MVP when it matters? Here are the factors that will loom large for the Sixers this season.

Sports Illustrated

James Harden taking lead role in second season with Sixers — on and off the court

PHILADELPHIA — The 76ers look like they are becoming James Harden's team.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

’Tis the season for Bulls to face some ghosts from the past

The Bulls struggled against the five teams that finished ahead of them last season, but five players really made the 2021-22 campaign a horror movie.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Nets' Ben Simmons on ex-teammate Joel Embiid: ‘We never really spoke’

Nets star Ben Simmons says he “never really had a relationship” with ex-Philadelphia 76ers teammate Joel Embiid, and that the two have not spoken since the blockbuster trade last season.

Tribune News Service

Ben Simmons on Embiid Relationship: ‘We Never Really Spoke’

The former Sixers star discussed his lack of relationship with fellow star Joel Embiid.

Sports Illustrated

Celtics Lab 147: Breaking down Boston’s season opener against the Philadelphia 76ers with Ky Carlin

To get a read on the Sixers ahead of the season opener, the hosts of the CLNS Media "Celtics Lab" podcast linked up with Sixers Wire editor Ky Carlin to talk about the two teams' start to the 2022-23 season.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Joel Embiid and James Harden pace Sixers in victory over Hornets in preseason finale

PHILADELPHIA — The side of P.J. Tucker’s knee inadvertently banged into Joel Embiid’s head as the 76ers’ All-NBA center fell to the ground late in the second quarter of Wednesday’s preseason finale against the Charlotte Hornets, a collision that resulted in Tucker taking an early visit to the home locker…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Tyrese Maxey continues preseason tear, raising already high expectations for Sixers star

PHILADELPHIA — Doc Rivers feels the next step in 76ers guard Tyrese Maxey’s evolution is getting his shot without a play being called for him.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

NBA Top 100 Rankings: And the Best Player Is ...

KD. Steph. Giannis. LeBron. Our countdown concludes with the game’s biggest stars.

Sports Illustrated

Tyrese Maxey shines again in Sixers’ preseason win over Cavaliers

PHILADELPHIA — James Harden delivered a long bounce pass to the streaking Tyrese Maxey, who converted through contact to the delight of the home crowd getting its first glimpse of the 2022-23 version of the 76ers.

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David Murphy: What if Tyrese Maxey is actually a superstar? It’s worth asking after what we saw against the Nets.

PHILADELPHIA — Some guys just pop. They demand your attention. Even a casual observer can pick them out. A priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into a gym and all of them say to each other: Who’s that guy?

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Live microphone catches Doc Rivers’ frank conversation with James Harden at Sixers camp

CHARLESTON, S.C. — At one point during Thursday’s televised practice at The Citadel, 76ers coach Doc Rivers told his team, “Our spirit is [B.S.]!”

Sports Illustrated

76ers’ Joel Embiid Becomes United States Citizen

The 28-year-old Cameroon native shared the news Thursday from Sixers training camp.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mike Sielski: The Sixers hated playing against P.J. Tucker. That’s why they signed him.

PHILADELPHIA — You know P.J. Tucker. If you’ve played any basketball in your life, you’ve played against P.J. Tucker, and you likely hated it. Or you’ve played with P.J. Tucker, and you loved it. P.J. Tucker is 37, which makes him an old man by NBA standards, and more to…

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James Harden looks trim and ready. Can he be the Harden of old?

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Can James Harden get back to being his old self?

The Philadelphia Inquirer

James Harden is thinner and Joel Embiid is healthier as Sixers prepare to contend this season

A lot has been made of the 76ers’ offseason acquisitions and the improved all-around play of guard Matisse Thybulle. But the team’s success may still rely heavily on the play of All-Star cornerstones Joel Embiid and James Harden.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Atlanta Hawks players gift John Collins with a birthday cake of him posterizing Joel Embiid

Not a bad birthday gift to have.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

17 pressing questions for 17 Sixers players ahead of the NBA’s unofficial start

PHILADELPHIA — Monday will be about talking for the Sixers, who will hold their annual media day to unofficially lift the curtain on the 2022-23 season before heading to Charleston for training camp.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

David Murphy: Ben Simmons goes on podcast, shares feelings, misses the key point

The problem with Ben Simmons has never been that his feelings are unjustified. Rather, the problem is that his feelings have never justified his behavior. This is a subtle but crucial distinction. It is also a classic one, having long served as a line of demarcation between two groups of…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

David Murphy: Montrezl Harrell is latest sign Daryl Morey and Sixers learned from their Miami meltdown

PHILADELPHIA — I’ve long been of the belief that any team built around Joel Embiid is a team that needs a Plan B. Last year, the Sixers did not have one, and they ended up paying a heavy price. With Embiid sidelined for the first two games of their Eastern…

USA Today Sports Media Group

Brian Windhorst details that Chet Holmgren blocked Joel Embiid multiple times in LA pickup game

The anecdote is bittersweet now that Chet Holmgren will be out for the entire season.

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