Game 6 is the most important Sixers game in the last five years, and if they want to win they’ll have the most unknown person they can find ring the bell. No Taylor Swift. No Jalen Hurts. Even Andrew Toney might be too recognizable. It needs to be someone so obscure that you’re like “how the hell does this person have any relation to Philly or the Sixers?” Like Wanda Sykes before Game 4. Who the hell knew Wanda Sykes lived in Media before Game 3? Nobody. But the Sixers won that game the minute the mallet struck:

I don’t know why the best-of-the-best bell ringers seem to suck all of the energy out of the Sixers and give it to the opponent. It’s like with every hit of the mallet against the bell, the ringer is destroying some kind of Horcrux and taking away the Sixers’ basketball powers. Think about it. Jason Kelce took care of the bell in Game 3 after Joel Embiid’s MVP speech. Emotions were HIGH. They lose by 12. Triple H comes out before Game 1 against the Hawks in one of the greatest moments of my sports fan life and the Sixers were immediately down by 20. The only one that had any juice where the Sixers ended up winning was when Meek Mill left jail and rang the bell before the Sixers clinched the first round over the Heat.

Good thing is that Sixers fans have some ideas for the ops department. Keep it simple:

https://twitter.com/MaggieBorski/status/1656114513350123520?s=20

 


 

https://twitter.com/kylepaganCB/status/1656131088375324673?s=20

 

Kinkead: I knew Wanda Sykes lived in Media