‘You guys wanna see a dead body?’ The slow death of the Philadelphia 76ers’ Process era
The Sixers’ season ended in a humiliating sweep at the hands of the Knicks. There are reasons to believe the franchise can recover though
Mikal Bridges and Joel Embiid wrestle for a loose ball during the Knicks’ sweep of the 76ers. Photograph: Emilee Chinn/Getty Images “You guys wanna see a dead body? ” Old heads remember that scene in Stand By Me, four boys hike through the Oregon wilderness to find the body of a dead boy.
They walk for miles for the morbid prize of seeing something that can’t be unseen. When they finally arrive and stand over the body, nobody says a word. There’s nothing left to say.
That is what it feels like to be a Philadelphia 76ers fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? Here it is.
Right here on the hardwood of the Xfinity Mobile Arena, swept in four games by the New York Knicks, getting beaten by 30 points in the finale, in an arena colonized by enemy fans . “The Process” – capital T, capital P, the grand basketball philosophy that was supposed to redeem a franchise and a generation of suffering fans – is dead. It has been dead for a while, actually.
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