Ramona Shelburne Takes us Inside the 76ers Crisis

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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It’s been more than a decade since the Philadelphia 76ers began their so-called “process” to tank-the-team, earn high draft picks, and set themselves up for a bright future. This strategy has now become the norm across sports, and for the Sixers’ sake, it did yield them Joel Embiid, the team’s first MVP winner in 22 years. But it’s also been filled with crisis after crisis. Two number one picks that flopped and big time trades, first for Jimmy Butler and then James Harden, that ultimately went nowhere. This year, the offseason acquisition of Paul George plus the retention of breakout star Tyrese Maxey was supposed to give Embiid his best shot at a title. But with the big man missing 15 of 19 games and George and Maxey also missing time, Philadelphia finds itself near the bottom of the standings. From the outside, it looks to have brought about a complete breakdown in the locker room and major question marks about team president Daryl Morey’s best laid plans. Today, Ramona Shelburne takes inside the latest, and possibly biggest Sixers crisis yet. You can honor Jim Valvano and support ESPN’s V Week with a donation to the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Michelle Steele here is sitting in the host chair today. And before we start the show,
0:12.1	one note I want to share is that across all of ESPN right now, it is V week. This is something we do
0:18.5	every year to honor our teammate Jim Valvano by supporting the V Foundation
0:22.7	for Cancer Research, the foundation that he announced in his iconic SB speech so many years ago.
0:30.2	Don't give up. Don't ever give up. And that's what I'm going to try to do. Every minute that I have
0:36.2	left. While lots of things have changed in the 30 years since that SB speech, the need for cancer research hasn't.
0:43.7	When you give to the V Foundation, 100% of your donation goes directly to research, making the dream of victory over cancer more possible every single day. If you're able, we hope that you'll
0:56.3	donate. Go to v.org slash donate now and help support the critical work of the V Foundation for
1:03.5	Cancer Research. Thank you. Now on with the show.
1:10.0	Ramona Shelburne, tell us about the picture.
1:14.4	So on July 1st, Paul George gives his commitment to play for this Philadelphia 76ers.
1:22.6	If you live on the East Coast, if you value sleep like we do, you woke up to this news and it
1:28.0	is pertaining to one big free agent heading east and may be rated R's what the Sixers
1:34.5	open for, R for rings, because Paul George is heading to the 76ers on a four-year, $212 million
1:42.3	deal. And five days later, I see Hunt,eter manager Darrell Mori's Instagram page, this perfect
1:49.6	photo of Paul George in an Alan Iverson t-shirt, Darrell Mori in a suit, Julius Irving,
1:56.3	Dr. Jay, and Josh Harris, the owner of the Sixers, all posed for a congratulatory photo from a
2:02.4	couple of days ago when they got together for a free agent meeting at Paul George's
2:06.6	house in West Los Angeles.
2:09.9	This is a fun picture because everyone here has had a long travel day, right?
2:14.6	A long day to get to this point.
2:16.2	That Sixers have had to carve out
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