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KC Johnson: Claxton is listed as doubtful. Following practice Sunday in Philly, Tiago Splitter said "he's still not ready to play. We're taking it day by day to see how his body feels after this practice.Put two practices together and see how his body adapts to that load.He's getting better"
Joel Lorenzi: Caleb Wilson at practice in Philly, Bulls’ 2nd since loss in Boston Friday: “I know that this is gonna be the most I lose in my life. I’m in the NBA now, and we’re not the team that we want to be in the future…i mean, losing games doesn’t make you a loser, but your approach to losing games and your approach to basketball, how you play, is what makes you a loser.”
Brett Siegel: Without Jaylen Brown, the 76ers improved to 5-1 with a 98-93 win in NBA Cup group play over the defending champion Knicks. Tyrese Maxey and Anfernee Simons combined for 48 points and 8 triples for Philly. New York is now 2-4 on the season.
And though Brown ended up in star-studded Philadelphia (with LeBron James, Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey), he could’ve landed in Brooklyn. And wasn’t wanted. “They weren’t lowballing,” a source said. “They just shut it down altogether. They just said, ‘We’re not interested.’ ” Sources told The Post that not only did the Celtics offer Brown to the Nets, but that the former Finals MVP was more than willing to join the Nets. It was the Nets that declined, according to sources, not about Boston’s asking price, but to avoid “another Kyrie Irving situation.”
When asked whether he truly believes Philadelphia can reach the Finals with James, Iverson made it clear he was not merely offering wishful thinking. "Do I think? Do I think? I know. I know for a fact it’s going to happen," Iverson said. Asked whether he had shared that forecast directly with James, Iverson smiled: "I don’t need to tell him that. He knows that."
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Iverson shared the prediction while meeting fans alongside current Sixers All-Star Tyrese Maxey at Dynasty Sports inside the Oxford Valley Mall in Langhorne. More than 1,000 fans packed the concourse, waiting in line for hours to take photos and collect autographs from the two franchise stars. Iverson, who led Philadelphia to the NBA Finals in 2001, spent extra time connecting with the crowd. "I inspire them and they inspire me. If I can make them happy," Iverson said. "This used to be me looking up to NBA legends like Michael Jordan."
LeBron James (low back/sciatica management) has been downgraded to out for the front end of the Sixers' weekend back-to-back. James will be sidelined for Saturday's matchup against the Milwaukee Bucks, his first absence in Philadelphia.
Raheem Palmer: I can confirm this is 100% true. He was in Vegas for summer league with Amile who was coaching the summer league team. He also had a camp he was throwing. People want there to be beef with him and Jaylen but Tatum had absolutely nothing to do with this trade and was just as shocked as everyone else. Kalshi Hoops: Jayson Tatum says he had no idea the Celtics were trading Jaylen Brown and was surprised they traded him to Philly: "Bro we was in Vegas, I just got done playing pickup. Sham walked over. He hand me the towel. He like, 'Yo, put this over your face. Don't react. They just traded him (Jaylen).' I'm like, oh sh*t. I'm like, where? He said Philly. I said, you traded him down the street? So I was just as much caught off guard as the rest of the world.
In the moments after the Philadelphia 76ers’ 114-106 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, Sixers forward LeBron James said he considered joining Cleveland before ultimately signing with Philly. “The nature of the meeting, I probably won’t discuss much,” James said on Thursday night. “But it was in consideration for sure. I mean, obviously, as a team trying to build towards a championship and things of that nature, I was trying to decide where I wanted to go with the rest of my career, to finish my career, or the next step. So, they had a lot of consideration for sure.”
Philadelphia trailed by 29 points late in the first half and won, giving James, who has scored the most points and played in the most games in NBA history, the largest comeback of his career. Twice — one time with the Miami Heat and again with the Los Angeles Lakers — LeBron’s teams had come from 27 points down to win games. “Had the boos — that was amazing; we deserved it,” said James, who called his Philly home debut “everything that I dreamed of and more.” “Then we got the cheers and almost blew the roof off this thing tonight in a good way,” LeBron James continued. “So, that was a hell of a night.”
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Keerthika Uthayakumar: Philly's 29-point comeback win is the largest comeback win of LeBron James' career. He was 0-52 when trailing by 29 or more through the first 23 seasons of his career.
"We were anticipating and excited [to land James] and then you have that [news]," Atkinson said pregame when asked about James going to Philadelphia. "Having gone through free agency a lot, when you're expecting something to happen and it doesn't happen, that first day or two, you're just like, you're depressed, quite honestly. That's the emotions of it."
Derrick White: Derrick says he’s sad to see Jaylen Brown in Philly but is thankful for his time on the Celtics and inspired by the impact he made within the Boston community 💯 Season 2 of White Noise is HERE, presented by @highnoonsunsips ☀️
One of the main subjects the documentary explores is Philadelphia's heartbreaking loss to the Atlanta Hawks in Game 7 of the 2021 Eastern Conference semifinals. Simmons faced intense criticism after passing the ball instead of attempting an open dunk late in the game. The moment quickly became one of the most discussed plays of his career and intensified the pressure surrounding the young star. "How did I feel? I was like, 'What a piece of 'shit,'" Simmons said in the documentary about his head coach at the time, Doc Rivers.