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2025 NBA Finals Game 1 Open Thread

2 days ago | libertyballers.com | Sean Kennedy

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images We are coming down the home stretch of the 2024-25 NBA season. Somewhere between four and seven games remain before we can officially flip the league calendar over to this month’s draft and next month’s Summer League. For Philadelphia 76ers supporters, a fresh start can’t come soon enough. But first, let’s enjoy what should hopefully be an entertaining NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers.
Sixers-adjacent rooting interests as Thunder, Pacers get set for the 2025 NBA Finals

5 days ago | libertyballers.com | Sean Kennedy

Photo by William Purnell/Getty Images If you were able to set aside the basketball-related stupor the 2024-25 version of the Philadelphia 76ers placed you in, you have been treated to a very entertaining NBA postseason over the past six weeks. With Indiana defeating New York, 125-108, in Saturday’s Game 6, this year’s NBA Finals matchup is now set between the Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder, who dispatched Minnesota in a gentleman’s sweep.
Jared McCain and Justin Edwards receive NBA All-Rookie Team votes

2 weeks ago | libertyballers.com | Sean Kennedy

Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images NBA Conference Finals are underway and the league still hasn’t announced the MVP award winner (finally coming tonight!). However, we did receive the announcment yesterday for NBA All-Rookie teams. While no Philadelphia 76er made First or Second Team, a couple did land in the Others Receiving Votes category. A global media panel of 100 voters selected the 2024-25 Kia NBA All-Rookie Team.
Sixers seem to be positioning to stick and pick at third overall

3 weeks ago | libertyballers.com | Sean Kennedy

Bill Streicher-Imagn Images The 2025 NBA Draft Lottery has come and gone, and everyone around the Philadelphia 76ers went through the emotional ringer, all the way up to President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey. Daryl Morey's reaction pic.twitter.com/aOV3ybpc3l— Dime (@DimeUPROXX) May 12, 2025However, the disaster scenario was averted and the Sixers were able to keep their pick, landing at third overall. Now, the question becomes, what does Philadelphia do with it?
2025 NBA Draft Lottery Open Thread

3 weeks ago | libertyballers.com | Sean Kennedy

Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images We are here. Lottery night. Do you remember this feeling, Sixers fans? It has been a good half-decade-plus since the franchise has been involved in one of these and those familiar butterflies are returning. Philadelphia has a statistically significant chance of landing the first overall pick and the opportunity to select the crown jewel of this year’s draft, Cooper Flagg.
Sixers arena to be renamed Xfinity Mobile Arena through 2030-31

1 month ago | libertyballers.com | Sean Kennedy

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images The current building the Philadelphia 76ers (and Flyers) play in has undergone plenty of name changes over the years since it opened in 1996: CoreStates Center, First Union Center, Wachovia Center, and most recently, the Wells Fargo Center. Wells Fargo announced last summer that they would not be renewing the naming rights deal, which expires in August.
Jared McCain to represent Sixers at 2025 NBA Draft Lottery

1 month ago | libertyballers.com | Sean Kennedy

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images As anyone still tuning in for Philadelphia 76ers coverage during these troubled times knows, the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery is of vital importance for the Sixers. Thanks to Al Horford’s extreme moping during his time in Philadelphia, Daryl Morey traded his contract to Oklahoma City, resulting in the Thunder owning the Sixers’ 2025 first-round pick if it falls outside the top six picks.
Guerschon Yabusele was one of the few things that went right for the Sixers last season

1 month ago | libertyballers.com | Sean Kennedy

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images Guerschon Yabusele re-entered many NBA fans’ lives last summer when he dunked on LeBron James in the gold medal game of the Paris Olympics. Let’s watch it again, just because it’s a sweet play. More than that dunk, though, Yabusele was excellent for France in that contest, collecting 20 points and a pair of steals to almost help his country pull off that upset.
Will the Eric Gordon Sixers era continue into 2025-26?

1 month ago | libertyballers.com | Sean Kennedy

Photo by Emilee Chinn/Getty Images When Daryl Morey and the Philadelphia 76ers signed then-35-year-old Eric Gordon last offseason, I understood the vision. The veteran guard had a productive season last year in Phoenix, shooting 37.8 percent from three and spacing the floor from 25 feet out for Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, and company. Morey decided to reunite with the former Houston Rocket to do the same thing in Philadelphia for the Sixers’ new Big 3.
Does Jared Butler have a future in Philadelphia?

1 month ago | libertyballers.com | Sean Kennedy

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images While many of his new Philadelphia 76ers teammates arrived via 10-day contracts or hardship exceptions, Jared Butler joined the Sixers with a draft capital sunk cost behind his acquisition. Prior to the trade deadline in February, Daryl Morey sent Reggie Jackson and a 2026 first-round pick (least favorable between the Clippers, Thunder, and Rockets) to Washington in exchange for Butler and four future second-round picks.