Do the Sixers' trade for Jaylen Brown and signing of LeBron James put more pressure on the Philadelphia Flyers to make a big splash? Not yet, but it will soon.
Just when it looked as though the Sixers would wrap up a victory in Game 2, ignored timeout calls, missed fouls, and an untimely offensive rebound by the Knicks put Philadelphia into a two-games-to-zero hole, 104-101.
Joel Embiid scored 34 points in the first half - and that was his lesser half - en route to a 70-point night as the Sixers held off the Spurs, 133-123.