Philadelphia 76ers

TORONTO - Vince Carter scored 39 points against his former team, Devin Harris added 30, and the New Jersey Nets rallied from an 18-point, third-quarter deficit to beat the Toronto Raptors, 129-127, in overtime last night.

When you're 2-9 and expected to be significantly better, the ground shakes, deals fall into place, pieces move in different directions. When everything settles, you look around, see what you have and hope you're better than you were.

76ers Notes Two familiar faces weren't with the Clippers for last night's game at the Wachovia Center. Los Angeles was without two of its top five scorers: guard Cuttino Mobley, who was averaging 13.7 points per game, and forward Tim Thomas, averaging 9.5.

The point guard's rare 3-pointer set the stage for the ex-Clipper to burn his former team.

Elton Brand prefers to look ahead and not back.

Al Jefferson scored six of his 25 points in the final 31/2 minutes to lift Minnesota to a 102-96 victory over the Sixers on Wednesday night, snapping an eight-game losing streak.

SIXERS.COM takes you behind the scenes as the team prepares for tomorrow's match-up with the Clippers.

SIXERS.COM takes you behind the scenes as the team braves the Minneapolis cold and prepares for tonight's match-up with the Timberwolves.

There will be 2,000 specially priced $10 tickets available per game, with the November games courtesy of the Sixers 2008-09 season presenting sponsor Revolution Card, while in December the offer is courtesy of team sponsor Taco Bell® and KFC®.

Yes, it’s the preseason. Yes, it means absolutely nothing come November 1st, but a win over the defending NBA Champs is nice to have on the resume. After last night that’s just what the Sixers have, all thanks to a gritty second half performance by the young guns of the Sixers roster. Lou Williams racked up [...]

The Sixers wrapped up camp at Penn State a day early because they accomplished what they set out to do and are now waiting for the preseason games. It starts with Boston on Wednesday. The Sixers will be back in practice on Monday at PCOM. Looking around the Atlantic Division, the verdicts are in from my [...]

Philadelphia 76ers Last Year’s Record: 40-42 Key Losses: Jason Smith (injured reserve), Rodney Carney, Calvin Booth Key Additions: Elton Brand, Kareem Rush, Royal Ivey, Theo Ratliff, Donyell Marshall, Mo Speights 1. What significant moves were made during the offseason? ELTON BRAND. God bless Reggie Evans, but he has his limitations. The Sixers lacked [...]

I enjoyed it, replayed, until the horn sounded. Then I realized that we just lost (102-96, .455) to a less than mediocre team, that not coincidentially had dropped eight straight games before matching up with us. “They wanted it more than us” explained Willie Green at the end. “It was obvious”, he added. Well, not so obvious, since [...]

The first edition of the Blogger MVP/ROY rankings, from an idea of Alex and Frank from Brewhoop, is up at Hoops Addict. I took part to this panel and think the final ranking is very interesting: it’s barely a suprise that no Sixer cracked the Top Ten in the MVP race and Marreese Speights didn’t get any [...]

The fourth edition of the Blogger Power Rankings I took part to is up at True Blue Jazz, take a look, you’ll find also some skepticism about our beloved team. I think it’s a good read, comments are insightful and often funny, hope you will enjoy the post. Sixers were ranked at #13 this time by bloggers, while, shockingy, [...]

I beg to differ with Caryl Kauffman about the nature of last night's win over the LA Clippers. Kauffman compared it to Wednesday's loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. I think it was the best win of the season. Any...

I didn't see tonight's loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves coming. For one of the few times this season the Sixers allowed a team to shoot more than 50% against them. That stat alone tells me that the Sixers took...

I like Willie Green. Still, I thought it was time to part ways with him and let Kareem Rush get all his burn. The way Green has been playing it's been hard to make a case for Rush. It's...