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The Philadelphia 76ers were blown out last night in game 5 of their playoff series with the Miami Heat.
First Things First host Chris Broussard says he was shocked at how the 76ers played.
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The Brooklyn Nets are trading James Harden to the Philadelphia 76ers for Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummond and two first-round draft picks, sources tell ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
The Sixers are sending the Nets an unprotected 2022 first-round pick and a protected 2027 first-round pick, sources tell Wojnarowski.
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Philadelphia 76ers star center Joel Embiid has signed a four-year, $196 million supermax contract extension, sources told ESPN.
The Sixers announced Tuesday morning the 7-footer has signed a multiyear deal with the team, but did not disclose details of the contract.
The extension keeps Embiid under contract with the Sixers through the 2026-27 season for a total of $261 million. The four-time All-Star already was set to make $65 million over the final two years of his current deal.
Embiid, who represented himself in the negotiations, became eligible for a supermax extension this summer after finishing second in MVP voting and making the All-NBA second team with averages of 28.5 points and 10.6 rebounds in 51 regular-season games in 2020-21.
This contract is fully guaranteed and includes a player option for the final year, sources said, but does not include the same provisions protecting the Sixers in case of catastrophic injury to Embiid's lower back or feet, like the five-year, $147.7 million deal he signed in 2017.
Since the 2017-18 season, Embiid has avoided the kind of injuries that stalled the beginning of his career. The longest stretch of games that Embiid missed in one season was the 11 games he missed this past spring with a bone bruise in his left knee.
He suffered a tear in his right meniscus during this season's playoffs but missed just one game and did not need surgery after the season, according to sources.
Embiid's extension will begin in 2023-24 and is based off a projected $124.95 million salary cap for that season.
Embiid, 27, has spent his entire career with the Sixers since being drafted No. 3 overall in 2014, posting career averages of 24.8 points and 11.3 rebounds while leading Philadelphia to the playoffs in each of the past four seasons.
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Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman react to former Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey becoming president of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers. Stephen A. suggests Morey find a way to trade for James Harden, even if that means breaking up star duo Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rapper Meek Mill walked out of prison Tuesday after Pennsylvania’s highest court ordered him freed while he appeals decade-old gun and drug convictions.
Following a five-month campaign by his supporters to get him out, the state Supreme Court directed a Philadelphia judge who had jailed him to immediately issue an order releasing him on unsecured bail.
Mill was sentenced in November to two to four years in prison for probation violations.
He was taken from the prison by helicopter to Philadelphia, where he rang the ceremonial bell at the start of Game 5 of the Philadelphia 76ers-Miami Heat playoff series.
“Welcome home Meek Mill,” said the game announcer to the rapper, who was sitting courtside next to actor Kevin Hart and Sixers co-owner Michael Rubin.
Before the game, Mill visited privately with the Sixers in their locker room.
A team of lawyers and public relations consultants had waged an all-out battle to get him freed, leveling fierce criticism at the judge as a stream of high-powered figures and celebrities visited him in jail outside Philadelphia just hours before the Supreme Court ruling.
Mill issued a statement saying the past months had been “a nightmare,” and thanked his many supporters and visitors, who included Rubin, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney.
“Although I’m blessed to have the resources to fight this unjust situation, I understand that many people of color across the country don’t have that luxury and I plan to use my platform to shine a light on those issues,” Mill said.
He said he would now focus his attention on getting his convictions overturned, and that he looks forward to resuming his music career.
Earlier this month, in a major victory for Mill, prosecutors said they agreed with his lawyers that he should get a new trial because of questions raised about the arresting officer. The now-retired officer was among a list of police officers the prosecutor’s office has sought to keep off the witness stand in cases across the city because of credibility questions.
A spokesman for District Attorney Larry Krasner said late Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s decision on Meek Mill’s release was consistent with the position taken by their office.
Mill’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, thanked the high court.
“Meek was unjustly convicted and should not have spent a single day in jail,” Tacopina said.
In an opinion earlier this month, Judge Genece Brinkley, who sent Mill to prison for the probation violations, strongly defended herself against accusations by the defense she was waging a vendetta against the rapper. She said the court “has impartially and without prejudice presided over numerous proceedings in this matter since 2008.”
The Supreme Court denied a defense request to move the case to another judge, but said the presiding judge could opt to remove herself.
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The Philadelphia 76ers honored Allen Iverson by retiring his number 3 jersey during a special ceremony on Saturday, March 1.
Iverson a.k.a. The Answer will go down in history as one of the best athletes to ever play in the National Basketball Association. In fourteen seasons he scored 24,368 points, had 5,625 assists, 1,983 steals and 3,394 rebounds.
The 6' 0", 165 lbs guard won the NBA scoring title four times, won the league MVP in 2001, was an eleven time All-Star, a four time NBA scoring leader, a three time NBA steals champion, a two-time All-Star Game MVP and the 1997 Rookie of the Year.
A.I's jersey retired on Saturday, March 1, 2014
Iverson was gracious during his speech Saturday night at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
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My greatest moment as far as my career was just getting drafted but then you have a day like this. It is a blessing from God that I got my jersey raised and I am proud I didn’t lose it the way I felt like I was. It was a great day and I will remember it for the rest of my life. I didn’t expect it to be this nice. These people rolled out the red carpet for me. If anybody is a basketball player and they saw what happened here tonight, they should get their butt to a gym and work on their game because the way these people did it for me -- they did it all. They showed me how much they respect what I did for this city and this franchise.
Congrats Allen, it was an honor to watch you play
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Allen Iverson is going to miss the next three games with the Philadelphia 76ers due to an undiagnosed illness of his four-year-old daughter, Messiah. He already missed two weeks earlier in the year due to the sickness. The Sixers are calling his leave "indefinite," according to the Camden Courier Post.
"At this time, we feel that it is in the best interest of the Sixers, Allen and his family that he be allowed to deal with a very serious issue that is far greater than the game of basketball," Sixers president and general manager Ed Stefanski said.
Some are thinking this could be it for Iverson and the Sixers, though. Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski reported yesterday that some in the organization are ready to send Iverson packing. The fact that it's never clear when Iverson is going to be in the lineup or not is starting to bug folks.
Sixers coach Eddie Jordan supposedly told his players on Sunday that Iverson might not be back.
Source: Yahoo Sports
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