Adrian Wojnarowski of YAHOO SPORTS reported earlier today that, “In an improbable turn, Elton Brand is leaning toward accepting a five-year, approximately $80 million contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, multiple league sources said Tuesday afternoon.”
Elton Brand in a Sixers’ uniform? Some local radio hosts are working on it.
(”Get me out of here!”)
Dan Schwartzman & Harry Mayes of 950 ESPN PHILADELPHIA interviewed the current Clipper on Thursday. Brand is in the last year of his contract, but has his eye on possibly playing somewhere else before his release from the grip of Donald Sterling.
And “The Locker Room” guys tried their best to convince the former All-Star to bounce to the City of Brotherly Love. Read more…
The last time we heard from them, the Detroit Pistons were surprising the NBA world by losing to the (previously) lowly Philadelphia 76ers. It was assumed that the Sixers game one win was an abberation, but after a twenty point victory on their home court, suddenly Philadelphia is looking a lot scarier. And not in the usual battery-throwing Philadelphia way.
Join me tonight at 7pm EST for the SbB evening liveblog to see if the Pistons can dig themselves out of their 2-1 hole. If not, at least Detroit fans can be happy that Matt Millen didn’t draft another receiver in the first round.
A Philadelphia gas station showed off their Sixers support Friday by hosting a special limited-time offer: 76-cent gas for 76 minutes.
The PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER pumps up news that the Lukoil station at Spring Garden St. & Delaware Ave. sold the 76 cents-per-gallon gas from noon to 1:16 p.m. today.
Seems extreme? Not when unleaded is reaching $3.69 a gallon.
Thank god for the investigative journalism skills of Dan Gross of the PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS. Yesterday, the NEW YORK POST reported on an anonymous Philly 76er who balloon-implanted sex worker Mary Carey “wrapped her legs around and made out with in front of clubgoers.”
It’s kinda embarrassing for said player, since Gross also reports that he said he was a “fan” of her movies and told her she was a “goddess.” Ugh. Read more…
When Allen Iverson first hit the league, the Philadelphia 76ers were deeply concerned about the bad influence AI’s old friends from Hampton and Virginia Beach, VA. Incidents that worried the 76er brain trust included a riot in a Hampton bowling alley, a marijuana possession/concealed weapon charge while in the car with a friend from Hampton, and a lousy rap album. (In that order.)
(Gotta protect yourself at all times, AI)
In the end, Iverson pulled out an awfully impressive career. However, the 76ers proved yet again the sun can shine on any King every once in awhile when the “longtime friend” that was in the car for that eventful 1998 vehicle stop tried to extort Iverson earlier this year. And you thought Larry Brown was out to get you, Allen.
