'The boos are gone and the vibes are flowing,' The Washington Post proclaimed in a Friday column about this charmed moment in the Philadelphia sports scene. But while the Phillies' trip to the NLCS and the Eagles' standing as the NFL's lone remaining unbeaten team have combined to prompt a sunny shift in the emotional tenor of the famously cantankerous City of Brotherly Love, we learned on Thursday night that the boos aren't gone, exactly. They've just taken up residence in the Wells Fargo Center.
"Playing here is tough, but that's what I love about them," Embiid once told former teammate J.J. Redick and Tommy Alter."... In Philly, they're just so in tune with everything that's going on with the team, and that's what I love about them. They're so intense, and like you said, I got booed a few times.
The track record — five All-Star berths, four All-NBA selections, a 50-plus-win pace in four of the last five seasons — suggests that Embiid will make whatever changes are necessary to get off the schneid. The calendar suggests that he might do so pretty quickly: After opening with Boston and Milwaukee, the Sixers' next two games come against the Spurs and Pacers, two teams widely expected to find themselves near the top of thecome season's end. A .
Even so: The Sixers do need Embiid to show up, serve as the sun around which everything they do orbits, and start shining brightly, and they need it sooner rather than later. This is the year it's all supposed to come together — a healthy Harden, better depth thanks to the additions of P.J. Tucker and De'Anthony Melton, more shooting and perimeter defense, a roster built to optimize the skills of the Sixers' past and hoped-for future MVPs.
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