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All signs point to De’Anthony Melton playing for the 76ers on Thursday in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series against the New York Knicks. “Today, I went through practice,” the shooting guard said Wednesday. “So I’m feeling good. I’m ready for the game tomorrow and we’ll see how it goes.”
Steve Popper: Mitchell Robinson added to injury report (Questionable – left ankle injury management). Thibodeau said earlier no injury issues. De’Anthony Melton upgraded to questionable for Sixers, same status as Embiid. pic.twitter.com/sdF6bu6tNF
Austin Krell: Joel Embiid is questionable for tomorrow’s Game 3 vs the Knicks (L knee injury recovery). De’Anthony Melton (back injury recovery) has officially been upgraded to questionable.
Some Philly fans on social media were in an uproar after the Villanova basketball account on X posted a congratulatory tweet praising “our guys” Jalen Brunson and Donte DiVincenzo for nailing “two HUGE 3s to seal the Win in Game 2” for the Knicks. Josh Hart, a teammate of those players on Villanova’s 2016 NCAA championship team and now with the Knicks, called anyone angered over that message — construed as a diss to the hometown 76ers — “idiotic.”
A moment like Monday’s wild scramble that led to Knicks guard Donte DiVincenzo’s game-winning 3-pointer in their miraculous 104-101 win over the 76ers in Game 2, which put the Knicks up 2-0 in the first-round NBA playoff series. That sequence earned just the sixth double “Bang” call from Breen in his Hall of Fame career. “Three or four specific things had to happen and they did, so when he hit that shot and the crowd went crazy, it just came out,” Breen, who was calling the game for MSG, told The Post on Wednesday in a phone interview. “It’s not something that was thought of, it just came out for such a spectacular play during this extraordinary sequence in such a huge playoff game.”
Breen, who has been inside Madison Square Garden for some of its greatest moments, said Monday marked one of the loudest crowds he’s experienced. “That’s going to become one of my favorite all-time moments,” Breen said. “There’s something special about this team. It’s not just group of individual players, it’s truly a team, so that made it extra fun. “The Knicks have gone through hard stretches and to have a team this exciting, there’s no fan base in the world that deserves a team like this like Knicks fans. … I’m a lifetime New Yorker, so not the most objective, but there’s no better sound in sports than a roar at Madison Square Garden. That all comes into play, how fans have stuck with the team, and to let them have that moment made it especially satisfying.”
Ian Begley: Asked about the 2-minute report, Tom Thibodeau says he’s more concerned about ‘the 46-minute report.” Says that he knew refs couldn’t call fouls there because of the way they officiated Jalen Brunson during Game 2.
Keith Pompey: “We did have a chance to win those two games,” Nico Batum said. “So all we have to do is keep fighting. Now we go home, it’ll be another big fight. Just go out there and keep playing. Keep playing. Adjust a couple things. We did a better job today in rebounding. But in the last
A pair of NBA playoff thrillers delivered mixed results for TNT Monday night. Monday’s Lakers-Nuggets first round NBA playoff Game 2 averaged 4.25 million viewers across TNT (3.62M) and truTV (636K), down 2% from Warriors-Kings on TNT alone last year (2.5, 4.32M) and the top sportscast of the day. Sixers-Knicks Game 2 led in with 3.47 million (TNT: 2.95M; truTV: 524K), up 15% from Nets-Sixers a year ago (3.00M). The double-digit increase came despite added competition from Magic-Cavaliers on NBA TV, which drew 381,000. There was no NBA TV game on the equivalent night last year.
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