8:10 pm
May 2

76ers @ Spurs

Who will WIN this matchup?

Philadelphia 76ers (42-21)

@ San Antonio Spurs (31-31

 

Current odds:

Philadelphia 76ers: (-550)

San Antonio Spurs: (+425)

 

• The spread for the game is Philadelphia by 10 points.

• The Spurs (31-31) head home after a calamitous 143-140 overtime loss in Boston on Friday that will be memorable because of what San Antonio didn’t do rather than what it did. In a crazy, up-and-down season influenced by COVID and a compressed, grueling schedule, Friday’s loss was the toughest to take. San Antonio is in ninth place and still is in great position to make the Western Conference play-in mini-tournament.

• The Spurs played near-flawless basketball for 30 minutes, building a 32-point second-quarter lead before settling for a 77-48 advantage at halftime. The Spurs made 71.4 percent of their shots from the floor, a season-best for a half, while their 77 points matched a season-high. Boston roared back, as Jayson Tatum scored a franchise-high-tying 60 points, with the Celtics’ comeback going into the record books as San Antonio’s largest blown halftime lead ever and just the second time in NBA history that a team lost after being up by at least 29 points at the break.

• The 76ers (42-21) travel to the Alamo City on the heels of a dominating 126-104 home win over Atlanta on Friday. Philadelphia will enter Sunday’ game in second place in the Eastern Conference, just off the pace set by Brooklyn. Dwight Howard led the 76ers with 19 points and 11 rebounds off the bench, with Ben Simmons, Tobias Harris and Joel Embiid scoring 18 points each as Philadelphia swept a home back-to-back versus the Hawks.

• The 76ers’ three-game streak (all at home) featured the largest cumulative margin of victory (plus-97 points) in franchise history according to Sixers.com. Philadelphia’s recent surge can partially be attributed to the play of Simmons, who averaged 12.7 points, 4.3 rebounds and 5 assists in 22 minutes per game over the past three outings while shooting 78.2 percent from the floor. Simmons missed four straight games earlier in the month with an illness.

6/10
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Philadelphia 76ers
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