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Andre Drummond Squaring Up With Wendell Carter was the Most Fight the Sixers Showed in a Blowout Loss
By Kyle Pagan
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Andre Drummond and Jalen Suggs were both ejected Tuesday night after an NBA fight ALMOST came to fists. I don’t know if this makes sense, but in my brain the NBA Cup court looks better for a main event fight than it does for an NBA game:
Honestly, the refs should’ve let them duke it out in a hair vs. hair match like Donald Trump vs. Vince McMahon at WrestleMania 23. You got Drummond who is a week away from getting roasted about his locks by a Clippers broadcast team:
Then you have Suggs with whatever this is:
What the hell does Suggs even ask for when he goes to a barber? Two on the sides and very little off the top? That is a preposterous hairline for a guy who is 24 years old. The refs should’ve let them go at it and then whoever lost got their head shaved at halfcourt because that would’ve been the only exciting part of a game that ended 144-103 and was never close.
The Sixers are now 9-8 and 4-6 in their last 10 and we haven’t seen Joel Embiid since November 8th and Paul George has somehow developed ankle soreness after playing in only three games this season. Worst contract in Sixers history? Starting to look like it. The lineup the 76ers started felt like one you saw in the middle of May last year. This lineup has no shot beating NBA teams unless Tyrese Maxey drops 50. Woof:
All of the good fortune they were able to acquire earlier in the season with the 2001 jerseys and bringing back Hip-Hop is now gone. It’s like getting over the honeymoon period with your new girlfriend and realizing it’ll never work. Howie Roseman should have walked out in the third quarter to beat the traffic:
At least we had some fireworks and this amazing quote from Drummond after the game:
Sixers center Andre Drummond on his late-second-quarter exchange with Wendell Carter: “I had to stop the bleeding, man. They went on a crazy run. For me, if you can see me, I looked up at the score, and I was, like, ‘Man, this (expletive) is nasty. I got to do something.’ And I was just (expletive) with him, and he reacted. I was like, ‘OK, I got to capitalize on it!’ I mean, I’m not one of those players who do anything dirty, so once I did what I had to do, I was clapping because I got the reaction I was looking for, I got somebody thrown out, hoping it would get us going a little bit, but I got one left. “Still ended up losing by 30-plus, so it was one of those nights for us. Got to learn from it, watch film, and move on to the next one.”
Does the NBA need enforcers?
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com