Erin Grugan

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Covering the Sixers for @Liberty_Ballers (SB Nation). Mostly yapping about sports in general. Opinions my own, yada yada. Photographer. Go Birds. YNWA.

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I understand that calling traveling in the NBA doesn't really happen anymore... but this one looked obvious even in real time. KAT's left foot leaving the ground and landing before he puts the shot up?

Yoinked this from Instagram to share here because I can’t stop watching it (credit DoyleMedia on IG) Double-A ball. Same game, same inning, same pitch count, same pitch speed, same hit, same bounce, same play. Top and bottom of 4th 🤯

Tyrese Maxey hits another triple in Q4 and points to former Sixers teammate Tobias Harris on the Pistons' bench. Harris... does not seem amused.

Kelly Oubre Jr. apparently had his foot on the out-of-bounds line for this three pointer... It was not called OOB on the floor, and the Sixers were instead deducted 3 points during the next commercial break, over a minute of game later.

Joel Embiid is back to being introduced as "The Process" at Xfinity Mobile Arena! Embiid had said he was "surprised" he stopped being introduced as such for a bit.

4-year-old Arthur Embiid with the slam dunk! (...with a little assistance from his seven-foot dad, Joel)

Seeing little moments like this with Joel Embiid is driving me insane... Running out of ways to ask why this guy is out there. Organizational malpractice.

Videos

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Looks like VJ Edgecombe is getting a VERY warm welcome home as he returns to the Bahamas following his rookie NBA season with the Sixers. Love to see it! (TikTok / haitgo_bahamas)

Joel Embiid on VJ Edgecombe "Philly got a good on in him. He's the guy. I'm telling you guys, [VJ] is something different. And this was only year one. Year 2 is gonna be better. Year 3 even better. He has a chance to be extremely special."

Myers on trading Jared McCain: "I'm not gonna disparage Daryl [Morey]. That was a few months ago. Right now, we have the 22nd pick, our job is to get that right. We have 3 second-round picks from it. We should be graded on the ultimate result of transactions like that."

Joel Embiid is struggling with some abdominal pain after taking a shot from Mikal Bridges while setting a screen. He's staying in the game, but something to keep an eye on. Embiid had an appendectomy less than four weeks ago.

This might be the best sequence of Sixers basketball I've seen in recent memory. Euphoric. Whatever you're doing, stop for a minute to watch this. Trust me. 🔥👇

Georges Niang being Georges Niang and chirping with Quentin Grimes in Q3. "If Joel was here, your ass would be in the corner. Joel here, you're in the corner. Tyrese [Maxey] here, you're in the corner."

Can someone explain to me how this was NOT called a backcourt violation by the Hawks? Look at the score! You can't make these officiating mistakes here!

Sixers rookie VJ Edgecombe features in Anthony Edwards' new Adidas commercial 👀

Josh Harris to the Sixers fans: "I want you to know, no one is more frustrated than me that we haven't achieved our goals ... We owe it to you and the city to be better."

Myers on 3 max deals under CBA: "Well we didn't get it done this year with 3 guys but that doesn't mean it can't be done. Depth may be more important than it's ever been ... Not to say this model doesn't work but we have to look at this year and be honest about it."

Daryl Morey: "The big move was with Jared. Because we're playing well, we were trying to upgrade the team and add to the team now." "We understand that we were looking to add now and nothing materialized."

Sixers' Tyrese Maxey is currently on Instagram Live asking for help on how to use a can opener 😂

Sixers' owner Josh Harris on the luxury tax: "The front office absolutely has the green light to go into the luxury tax. In fact, we've been in and out of the luxury tax. It's just not an issue." Since 2011, the Sixers have been into the luxury tax just twice.

Jaylen Brown on livestream less than 24 hours after the Sixers knocked out the Celtics in the first round "Flopping has ruined our game. Joel Embiid is a great player, one of the best bigs in fuckin basketball history... flops. He know it. This ain't breaking news."

My other reel tonight goes to Kelly Oubre Jr. in what was one of his best games as a Sixer, truly. Just absolutely all over the court and contributing everywhere. 26 PTS (10-14 FG, 4-5 3PT), 4 REB, 3 AST, 1 STL, 1 BLK Here are some of the highlights from Oubre's night! ⬇️

Myers on Harris' willingness to pay luxury tax to make Sixers a contender "'If [Harris] says no—which he won't—I wouldn't work for somebody like that. You look at the history of teams that have won a championship—I was one of them, we were in tax ... But it has to make sense."

Trainer Drew Hanlen on Joel Embiid "People will look at him and be like 'he's out of shape, he's lazy.' You don't go from picking up a basketball the first time at 16 to being arguably the most skilled big guy of all time, in a decade, if you don't work hard." (Kevin O'Connor)

Drew Hanlen: "'Joel Embiid's out ... oh no, is he seriously hurt?' No, he's just not 100% ... he's not going to push his body to a place where he has in the past. People know all the surgeries, all the injuries. People have no idea the amount of pain that he's played through"

No hesitation from rookie VJ Edgecombe in standing up for his veteran teammate in Joel Embiid.