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Michael Levin

@Michael_Levin

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tv writer, process sixers relitigator ( @RTRSpodcast )

Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2010
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
7 months
the longest trade request in NBA history has gotten funnier
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Sean Wright
7 months
Source: Furkan Korkmaz requested to be part of the #Harden deal. Both #Sixers and #Clippers staff were against the idea.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
Windy out here telling ghost stories around a campfire absolutely refusing to get to the point on live television
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2 years
Brian Windhorst just ran the First Take desk in circles. They were hanging on his every word for 2+ minutes 😂😂. Absolute masterclass.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
3 years
in my thousands of years watching this team, no Sixer has ever made this shot
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Tom West
3 years
Every Raptors defender is looking at Embiid here. He handles the extra pressure well and makes a good pass on time to find Seth Curry for a huge 3-pointer.
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Michael Levin
5 years
Your Philadelphia Motherfucking 76ers just went into the Oracle and beat the Golden State Warriors. That's a fucking win. This is a fucking team. Best win since 2001. I'm so fired up I could break Anzejs Pacekniks's 148 pound body in half.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
4 years
Daryl Morey building a team around Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons instead of an odd collection of lumbering shouldery henchmen is I think a good call
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
3 years
BREAKING: sixers fan’s ringless streak comes to an end
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Michael Levin
2 years
i'm not saying he will, but the CBA clearly states that Daryl is allowed to dip his balls on the foreheads of everyone who said he should trade Ben for Buddy Hield
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
4 years
a dangerously good win for our teenage stoner fuckup sixers who don’t study for tests, fail a group project because they didn’t turn anything in, then ace the SATs and get a full ride to Johns Hopkins
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
8 years
imagine enjoying a sport in philadelphia
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
5 years
good news: turns out Jimmy Butler is still Jimmy Butler bad news: turns out the rest of the Sixers are Amir Johnson
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
I've been living in a Sixers cave of ballhandlers who can't shoot and shooters who can't dribble and athletes who forgot how to do both, so watching this feels like a near-death hallucination
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Mike
2 years
Man this is beautiful
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
turns out the Sixers traded for James Harden
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Michael Levin
4 years
the sixers are now 3-1 in the bubble with 4 losses
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
i like to call it “the Trade Deadline” because if Ben Simmons doesn’t get traded I will die
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
5 years
the sixers have 4 top 30 players in or entering their prime and a Boban process worked, grease the poles
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
5 years
the idea that potato left out in the rain Jared Dudley got rewarded for starting a fight after a *CLEAN BLOCK* by Embiid resulting in a nonsense flagrant and Jimmy's ejection is an indictment on the NBA and the Nets should be forced to move to Seattle
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
4 years
we got him
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
turns out the answer to most of the Sixers' problems was simply one of the best players of all time
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
5 years
if Sixers ownership is hinging Brett Brown's job security on him winning a Game 7 on the road vs the current best player in the NBA, with a ~70% Embiid, half the roster barely knowing eachother and the other half unplayable centers, I've been underestimating their toxic ignorance
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
the Sixers are undefeated in games where Joel rinses Bobby Portis while Giannis watches helplessly allowing Georges Niang to shoot 5-10 from three because Harden told him to as he bullies Maxey into being the fucking man and Korkmaz gets lifted in the air like a baby pig
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
3 years
Embiid turning into the best player in the NBA while Tobias turns into Khris Middleton, Seth turns into Steph, Shake turns into God, and Ben & Joel remake Portrait Of A Lady On Fire have been welcome developments for the best team in the East by record & vibes
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Michael Levin
3 years
this is the best Sixers team of my lifetime and I would’ve done 91 more Processes for a single Joel Embiid
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
4 years
decided I'm happy for Jimmy. he told the Sixers to go fuck themselves, and the Sixers fucked themselves all season long and maybe for the next decade. Now he's with a bunch of shirtless dudes in the best shape of their lives. A level of Winning The Breakup we could only dream of.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
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a Sixers vs. Doc Rivers second round is the surest way to determine if I will die on the spot or become immortal
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
a Phils-Astros World Series. the rare occasion where rooting for the Philadelphia team is Morally And Ethically Right
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
5 years
I didn’t survive the Eddie Jordan era, the Doug Collins era, and the Arnett Moultrie era just to see the most talented Sixers team of my lifetime lose to an alien robot and a pop-rap chunky sweater model let’s get this fucking W
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
3 years
being a Sixers fan should come with free therapy, paid time off, and a salary in the mid 6 figures
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
no one is better at anything than Joel Embiid
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Joel Embiid
2 years
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
just heard from a Philadelphia-area laser tag place that Tyrese Maxey is banned from The Deal Zone. he runs too fast up the ramp and he kept firing at kids right when their packs restarted. his picture’s on the wall and everything. untradeable.
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Michael Levin
4 years
Jimmy Butler has led his team to the NBA Finals the year after the Sixers let him go so they could get swept in the first round and I can only hope the Sixers entire front office feels so much shame that they take a serious look in the mirror and fire themselves
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Michael Levin
5 years
just really love when a national broadcast runs down what's happened to the Sixers this year and calmly states the fact that THE PREVIOUS GM WAS FIRED FOR OPERATING MULTIPLE BURNER ACCOUNTS TO PUBLICLY TRASH HIS PLAYERS and then announces james ennis checking in like it's normal
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
5 years
Shamet has absolutely no business being this good this fast without any semblance of a personality or even a facial expression
@jackfrank_jjf
Jackson Frank
5 years
Landry Shamet making plays!
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
4 years
it was a joyless season, a ludicrously ill-fitting roster, a total waste of time for some individually talented & likable players, and a miserable experience for the fans dumb enough to give a shit fire everyone, sell the team, feel better Tobias
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
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after the way his career started, for Joel to have gotten this good, for this long, while still staying true to the philosophy of Suck It........... he's perfect
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Philadelphia 76ers
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
5 years
WE ARE RUNNING IT BACK, SOMEBODY RE-UP MIKE SCOTT'S APARTMENT LEASE
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Adrian Wojnarowski
5 years
Brett Brown will return as the Philadelphia 76ers coach next season, managing partner Josh Harris told ESPN on Monday night. Harris, Brown and GM Elton Brand met today to discuss offseason priorities, including draft and free agency.
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Michael Levin
5 years
I am predictably very sad about Fultz. He was the tailor-made perfect piece to compliment Joel and Ben. But he forgot how to shoot, he broke Embiid's face, and his mom set up cameras to spy on him and here we are. I have boundless empathy for Markelle.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
Maxey Harden Matisse Not Having To Talk About Ben Simmons Anymore Embiid
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
Process Worked, Bullying Worked, Daryl Worked
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Adrian Wojnarowski
2 years
The Brooklyn Nets are trading James Harden to the Philadelphia 76ers for Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummond and two first-round picks, sources tell ESPN.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
5 years
Embiid, Simmons, and Butler -- who all loathe each other and despite the fake high-fives, haven't spoken in years -- each had 8 assists tonight on an imploding Sixers team that is 2nd in the NBA in assists and 14 games over .500
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
4 years
infinite credit & love to Brett Brown for army-crawling us through Sixers shitstained insanity for the last 7 years and pointedly not thanking Bryan Colangelo in his goodbye letter
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
4 years
it’s easy to tell Glenn Robinson is new because he’s moving his body around on offense, a clear violation of team rules
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
6 years
it was always worth it.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
4 years
the Eagles are the new Phillies, the Phillies are the new Sixers, and the Sixers are the new Eagles, a flyer is a piece of paper
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
beginning to suspect that the Sixers don't care if i live or die
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
5 years
sacrificing future assets to win now blows when you're Orlando or Detroit scrotum-clenching for that 8 seed. but when winning the East is on the table, you go get Tobias Harris & go to the goddamn Finals. I've been sixersblogging for a decade, this is what the fuck it was all for
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
6 months
the Sixers traded for Andrew Bynum in 2012 and the franchise has not had a single normal day since
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John Clark
6 months
“I’m going to believe Kelly at his word” -Nick Nurse on Kelly Oubre Jr telling the Sixers that he was hit by a car Saturday night Nick says Kelly has been riding an exercise bike at the practice facility
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Michael Levin
5 years
on the last @RTRSPodcast , I mentioned Freddy, the 7yo family friend who was recently diagnosed with leukemia. the Sixers sent him a bunch of stuff. yesterday, Matisse Thybulle, who lost his mom to leukemia, visited Freddy himself. we got a good one.
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Michael Levin
2 years
the Sixers haven’t had a player who can actually pass, actually dribble, and actually shoot since like Hal Greer. legitimate possibility Philadelphia thinks he’s a witch and sets him on fire
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
5 years
sometimes i watch markelle fultz college tape and scream at the top of my lungs for 14 straight minutes
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
**James Harden** being the guy that takes less money to help teambuild is going to send The Narrative into unprecedented disarray. Skip Bayless in hell. Stephen A has vertigo. Windhorst sigh-complaining to squirrels
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Adrian Wojnarowski
2 years
ESPN Sources: 76ers star James Harden has declined his $47.3M option and become a free agent. He keeps real the possibility of negotiating a new deal that would deliver the Sixers roster-building flexibility in free agency – including use of the full $10.5M exception.
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Michael Levin
2 years
Embiid missing the first 2 years of his career is nothing compared to the years he’s lost watching Tobias methodically dribble into contested late clock 17-footers off the front rim
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
6 years
the Sixers are: - locks to make the playoffs - pushing to host a series - one of the best defensive teams in the league - while also being one of the most fun to watch - ready to offer max money this offseason honestly we were even more right than we thought
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
Joel Embiid (tired of watching DeAndre Jordan repeatedly fall through a trapdoor and plummet into Balrog’s abyss in Moria forced to reckon with his own mortality from a simple pick & roll) will try to play tonight.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
4 years
i ran the numbers and i’m currently the perfect level of drunk to believe in the sixers again
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
every Sixers playoffs is a thoroughly unpleasant experience that takes years off my life, so I hope to be miserable for two months straight then die at the parade. let’s go
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
seeing ~97% support for the Harden trade, but to the other 3%: -it is JAMES HARDEN -forcing his way to THE SIXERS -the team Andrei Kirilenko decided to RETIRE rather than play for caring about Josh Harris's 2027 luxury tax bill? buddy the earth is dying, let me get that ring
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
3 years
"No Way To Prevent This" Says Only League That Held All-Star Game During Global Pandemic
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
5 years
one adjustment Brett Brown can make at halftime is drowning me
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
4 years
-poor spacing -no communication on defense -good players suddenly losing motor function -sloppy turnovers -visible friction -random mediocre player absolutely going off -blowing a big lead -Embiid to the locker room Sixers ramming an entire season's storylines into one game
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
can't give up Maxey in a Harden trade. not just because Maxey is a perfect angel who I already put in my will, but bc when you're paying Harden a $fuckload til he's 83, the Sixers (who will max Tyrese when Tobias expires) need him carrying the offense for the last of Joel's prime
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Michael Levin
2 years
Melton is an absolute balls-on accurate perfect fit next to Maxey and Harden, I've been in love with him for six years, and sometimes you gotta pass up the boat for a sickass jetski
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Adrian Wojnarowski
2 years
Philadelphia is trading the No. 23 pick to Memphis for DeAnthony Melton, source tells ESPN.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
5 years
very clearly the best Sixers team since '83, such a shame that none of the fans will ever come back to see it because of The Process
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Michael Levin
3 years
SEVERE UNDERPAY, KORKMAZ TOOK LESS MONEY TO STAY HOME BECAUSE THAT ONE GAME WINNER WAS THE BEST DAY OF HIS LIFE
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Adrian Wojnarowski
3 years
Furkan Korkmaz has agreed to a three-year, $15M deal to stay with the 76ers, his agents Mike Lindeman and Jeff Schwartz of @excelbasketball tell ESPN.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
Ben Simmons Trade Destinations, Ranked Comedically: 7. Magic (fultz & mcw) 6. The Utah Rookies 5. An Expansion Team Comprised Of Kendall Jenner’s Exes 4. Heat (literally jimmy) 3. Celtics 2. Four-Team Trade Where He Goes Back To The Sixers Due To Clerical Error 1. Hawks
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
realizing Joel Embiid is one of the most important people in my life and I’ve spoken to him once on a Zoom when he was trapped at Disneyworld
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
5 years
losing Boban and TJ on the same day is really testing whether I actually want the Sixers to be good, or to just collect cute boys who are sweet to each other
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
a hobby is not supposed to provide this many traumatic experiences
@ShamsCharania
Shams Charania
2 years
Sources: 76ers All-NBA star Joel Embiid suffered a right orbital fracture and mild concussion in series-clinching Game 6 win last night in Toronto. He will be listed as out and there is no timetable for his return.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
1 year
lifetime deal 🖤🤍
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
3 years
it appears that i am once again putting my well-being in the hot but slippery hands of our philadelphia 76ers
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
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bottom line there is no athlete I've ever felt a closer emotional connection to than Joel Embiid and no matter what happens I will love him for the rest of my life
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
4 years
brandon ingram shoots 7-20 with 0 assists every single game, gets praised by killer instinct fetishists like @andrewsharp & @KevinOConnorNBA , commandeers every crunch time possession, and goes home with a freakishly skinny L
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Michael Levin
5 years
i was told all sixers fans perished in the 129-year process
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Basketball Reference
5 years
Leaders in Attendance (per game): 1. #Sixers 2. #Mavs 3. #Raptors 4. #Bulls 5. #Heat Bottom 5: 26. #Grizzlies 27. #Hawks 28. #Wolves 29. #Suns 30. #Nets
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
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a decade of parsing every Sixers transaction and pick protections and knee tendons and #1 picks forgetting how to shoot only for BRICKEN for fucking CHICKEN to be what jumpstarts a Sixers playoff run
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
3 years
easily the least Sixersy Sixers win of my lifetime. i don't know who any of these people are.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
3 years
Tobias gets to keep all his money
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
6 years
i have made my family aware that talking politics during thanksgiving dinner is fine, markelle fultz discussion is not
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
3 years
everyone on the sixers or associated with the sixers in any way has been pranking me for my entire life and they must be stopped
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Adrian Wojnarowski
3 years
Free agent C Andre Drummond has agreed to a one-year deal with the 76ers, source tells ESPN.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
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Michael Levin
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maybe if i refresh twitter hard enough the power of my anxiety will cause Embiid’s knee to heal
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Michael Levin
6 years
Jimmy Butler is the Sixer That Was Promised
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Michael Levin
6 years
THE COLANGELO BURNER ACCOUNTS ARE GOING IN THE PROCESS 30 FOR 30
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Michael Levin
6 years
1 2 3 4 5 Sixers 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 turnovers and a win
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Michael Levin
2 years
a Surviving Non-Embiid Minutes Against The Raptors Bball Paul Victory Tour, and Doc’s still not invited
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Michael Levin
3 years
-happy for Markelle -sixers fans gave him more rope than any athlete in philadelphia ever -getting paid like that after losing the ability to do ~33% of the job is my dream -i respect the Magic for deciding to never be good but still beat the Sixers 3x a year 89-83 -fuck a DeVos
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
5 years
hurt myself celebrating, fuck boston
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
6 years
SIXERS FIRST ROUND PICKS WHO PLAYED RIGHT AWAY: MCW Okafor Luwawu SIXERS WHO SAT AT LEAST A YEAR: Nerlens Embiid Dario Simmons Korkmaz Fultz (counting him) [Zhaire] there's nothing more Process than injuring your good rookies
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Michael Levin
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-Jo remains The Guy -I keep waiting for Tobi's D & creation to regress! they aren't! he's good! -Ben FTs yay -Josh a dog <3 -Matisse block in front of C's bench, hope Ainge's retinas burn like bad piss -no analyst on TNT has ever made a correct point even by accident -fuck boston
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Michael Levin
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the defining feature of being a sports fan is feeling like a fucking idiot
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Michael Levin
4 years
every philadelphia sports team is the sixers
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
4 years
oh no, an excellent sixers win against elite competition, my only weakness
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Michael Levin
6 months
this is what happens when the Sixers sign players that are good
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Adrian Wojnarowski
6 months
Philadelphia 76ers guard Kelly Oubre Jr. was a pedestrian struck by a motor vehicle in Center City, Philadelphia tonight and is receiving treatment at a local hospital, a Sixers spokesman tells ESPN. Oubre Jr., is currently in stable condition.
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Michael Levin
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Embiid’s drastic improvement as a passer is absolutely ridiculous. like he got bit by a radioactive Jose Calderon
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Hoop Central
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Joel Embiid over the last 9 games: 30 PTS - 11 REB - 11 AST 35 PTS - 11 REB - 9 AST 32 PTS - 13 REB - 5 AST 32 PTS - 12 REB - 9 AST 32 PTS - 7 REB - 8 AST 20 PTS - 9 REB - 7 AST 39 PTS - 12 REB - 6 AST 37 PTS - 13 REB - 7 AST 33 PTS - 16 REB - 3 AST
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Michael Levin
2 years
Bball Paul can miss as many wide open fast break reverse windmill dunks as he wants
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
if DeAndre Jordan even looks at the scorer’s table in the playoffs, we fire Doc mid-game and elevate CoachBall Paul
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Michael Levin
5 years
Your Philadelphia Seven Foot Thiccsers
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Zach Lowe
5 years
Josh Richardson-Simmons-Harris-Horford-Embiid -- gotta step back and digest all this, but that is a monstrously huge potential starting five.
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Michael Levin
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we gotta devise a way for the Sixers to make a long satisfying playoff run without them having to actually play playoff games which are some of the worst experiences of my life
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Michael Levin
5 years
the fans will never come back
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Keith Pompey
5 years
The #Sixers ranked No. 1 in attendance last season and again this season.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
3 years
hungover from mixing alcohols with Joel Embiid quadruple-humping the air in a 300 point win over the indestructible Orlando Magic
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
4 months
every day I wake up knowing a Mickey Mouse Mike Muscala shot is the only thing in human history that kept me from turning into Legitimately Gollum
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Lauren Rosen
4 months
Tyrese Maxey’s first game as an All-Star: 51 PTS 17-27 FG 7-9 3FG 10-11 FT W.
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@Michael_Levin
Michael Levin
2 years
Bball Paul, who has not accrued a single statistic tonight, is the most important player in the entire playoffs and Doc Rivers is not invited to his statue unveiling
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