Daily News | Sixers vs. Cleveland Cavs takeways: Embiid’s milestone, Reed’s defense, Harden’s play
Paul Reed remains the team’s backup center — at least for now. And on Wednesday, James Harden played arguably his best half of basketball this season.’ 118-112 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Wells Fargo Center.That’s because the six-time All-Star keeps accomplishing things that only Hall of Famers like Allen Iverson and Wilt Chamberlain have done in a Sixers uniform.But he accomplished something Wednesday that even those two greats of the game didn’t do as Sixers.
Chamberlain needed just 236 games to reach the 10,000-point plateau as a Philadelphia Warrior. That’s the fewest amount of games needed to surpass the milestone in NBA history. The Sixers acquired the West Philadelphia native from the San Francisco Warriors on Jan. 15, 1965. Hall of Famer Michael Jordan is second to the mark at 303 games.» READ MORE:Embiid is the eighth active center to have scored 10,000 points. He has played 100 fewer games than anyone else on the list.
“And I thought he was really good,” Rivers said. “I had no idea. You know, being in the West, you only saw him twice. He is so much better in almost everything than even I thought. And he’s so much smarter, too. That’s what you don’t know when you don’t coach a guy like his brain.Reed may make it hard for the Sixers to take him out of the rotation.
“He’s doing what we need him to do,” Embiid said of Reed, “playing hard, being active offensively and defensively. Offensively, setting screens and getting us extra possessions. Defensively, try to be as aggressive as possible. “I’m just trying to win,” Reed said. “I’m trying to help the team win. Do whatever I can to help the team win, that’s what I’m trying to do. For right now, it’s playing defense and setting screens and rolling hard [to the basket].
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