The Sixers did not roll over and die in Game 5 on Tuesday night. They tried to throw it away, both literally and figuratively, but Tyrese Maxey went nuclear and bombed home the game-tying three-pointer right in all those stupid finance bro faces:

Awesome.

Maxey had 46 points on 17-30 shooting. He played 52 minutes in the 112-106 overtime win and tossed nine assists as well. He had Jon Stewart looking like he saw a ghost:

Joel Embiid had the uber-rare quadruple-double of points, rebounds, assists, and turnovers. The guy did not have it  from the floor (7-19), but played 48 minutes and gutted out some tough possessions at the end. He wasn’t standing there totally gassed like he was at the end of Game 4, he was setting hard screens for Maxey in the fourth quarter and overtime and anchoring defensively.

I’m sure we all expected a typical 4th quarter collapse, but for once we got some heart and guts out of the Sixers.

What’s important now is that we keep these revolting Knicks fans out of the Wells Fargo Center for Game 6. How do we do that? Buy all the tickets ourselves, for starters. We could grab some of the campus protesters and set up a perimeter around the arena. We could also do a CHAZ-style encampment and simply take over the sports complex ourselves. I’ll play the role of “warlord,” ala Raz Simone. Whatever it takes to keep marble mouth Joey from the Bronx at home.

Sixers in 7. You ever see playoff basketball… ON WEED?

*This is not a political post. We don’t support any political party, though we do wanna give a shout out to Governor Shapiro for coming on the podcast.