Daily News | 25 things to know about Sixers-Nets as Game 1 of their first-round series approaches
The Brooklyn Nets, in just a little more than two months, have gone from a tiresome group of mercenaries to an interesting young team led by a rather amiable Villanova alumnus. They may not have enough firepower to make a deep run as when they had Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant, but with Mikal Bridges leading the way, the Nets definitely are more tolerable. At least until that first hard foul on Joel Embiid.
Here are 25 things to ponder as this first-round series is finally almost at hand, including a bit of trivia related to Sixers playoff opponents who played in the Big 5.This will be the fourth time the Sixers and Nets have met in the postseason. The Sixers beat the Nets in 1979 and 2019, but infamously lost in 1984 when the Nets shocked the defending champion Sixers by winning all three games of the best-of-five series at the Spectrum.
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