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Shake Milton’s 31 points lead Sixers’ rout of depleted Heat
PHILADELPHIA — This time the 76ers, with reinforcements returning, had no problem with the depleted Miami Heat. The Sixers welcomed back Tobias Harris, Shake Milton, and Matisse Thybulle, who each missed the past three games due to health and safety protocols and none of them showed much rust in Thursday’s 125-108 win over the Heat at the Wells Fargo Center. It was the second win in three days over the Heat in this baseball-type series in Philadelphia. On Tuesday, the Sixers earned a 137-134 overtime win. For the second straight game against the Sixers, Miami had the minimum of eight players a...
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Need healing for the new year? A new hotline offers poems of hope
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia poet laureate Trapeta B. Mayson on Monday launched the Healing Verse Philly Poetry Line (1-855-763-6792), a toll-free telephone line that offers callers a 90-second poem by a Philadelphia-connected poet. A new poem will be featured each Monday throughout 2021. In the context of a pandemic, a presidential election, and a racial reckoning, Healing Verse "offers a glimmer of hope because all those things impact us spiritually, mentally." Mayson said in an interview Tuesday. "And now, more than ever, we need spaces to process." The focus is on "affirming poems," she sai...
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Danny Green sees Ben Simmons evolving his game as he learns Doc Rivers’ system
PHILADELPHIA — After Tuesday night, Danny Green will have played a total of six games with Ben Simmons – four in the regular season and two preseason tilts. So Tuesday was the perfect time to ask Green if anything new stood out to him about the All-NBA guard’s game. “I think we all knew how talented he was,” Green said. “I think now it’s just him grasping and understanding the system and forming into, which he’s not naturally as a point guard, you know, he’s a great playmaker as Doc [Rivers] would say. “And he’s good at making plays, but he’s still learning how to put sets together, put people...
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New York man trapped in car for 10 hours after being buried by snowplow
An upstate New York man spent 10 hours trapped in his car after a snowplow buried his vehicle under four feet of snow, authorities said. Police received several 911 calls Thursday about a driver who went off the road along State Route 17C and needed help in Owego, a town in western New York just a few miles from the Pennsylvania border, authorities said. However, despite several attempts to find the car, no one could locate it. Sgt. Jason Cawley of the New York State Police learned about the calls, and went on a hunt for the wayward vehicle. As he was driving, he spotted several mailboxes stic...
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Mike Jensen: Villanova-St. Joseph’s is a win for Philly fans, even if it took a schedule loss for the Wildcats
Listen, this isn’t the season to worry much about rivalries, and rivalry games being played. Even Big 5 games. For this one season, act like the Big 5 doesn’t exist. Without Penn playing any games, it really doesn’t. The Palestra is dark. That’s all different from not wanting such games to happen, for hoping rivalries play out when possible. Like this week, it turns out. Like when Villanova hosts St. Joseph’s Saturday night at the Finneran Pavilion. Games come off 2020-21 schedules so quickly, it’s all barely even written in pencil. Villanova had been trying like crazy to get in its scheduled ...
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Governor encourages New Yorkers to stay off roads as upstate buried under several feet of snow
ALBANY, N.Y. — There were 600 car crashes and two people died as a major winter snow storm swept through New York overnight, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. States of emergency were declared in 18 counties across the Empire State as significant amounts of snow buried upstate cities from Binghamton to Albany. Cuomo, who posted a photo of himself gassing up his Ford Bronco on Twitter, encouraged New Yorkers to stay off the roads and allow plows to do their work. “Please do not travel today,” the governor said during an appearance in Kingston, which is about 60 miles from the Governor’s Mansion ...
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Shake Milton relishes the challenge from Sixers coach Doc Rivers to be aggressive and ‘Be Shake’
Doc Rivers appears to have the utmost confidence in Shake Milton. Shortly after Rivers was named the 76ers coach on Oct. 1, he praised the player who scored a career-high 39 points against his Los Angeles Clippers team last season. Those acknowledgments to the media have turned into bi-weekly occurrences and increased Milton’s comfort level, knowing that his coach has confidence in him. Milton doesn’t want to make mistakes, of course, but he’s not as afraid to make them with Rivers in his corner. “Just him putting the ball in my hands and challenging me, offensively and defensively, to be aggr...
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David Murphy: The Sixers are back in the Wells Fargo Center. Where they go from here is anybody’s guess.
Turns out, one of the second-order effects of a pandemic is a distortion of time. It had been 278 days since the Sixers stepped onto the court at the Wells Fargo Center. Somehow, though, it felt as if they had never left. Or maybe it felt as if they weren’t really here. It was the middle of December, and there was October basketball being played. Two months had gone by since the NBA Finals concluded, four months since the Sixers’ usual May became their August. The coach was different. The seats were covered by a big blue tarp. There’s a vaccine coming. Snow, too. We hadn’t had that in more tha...
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Trudy Rubin: A peaceful transfer of power: We didn’t know how normal that was — until it was almost gone
“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” That Joni Mitchell refrain ricocheted around my head in the wake of Monday’s Electoral College vote confirming President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. U.S. Supreme Court rejects GOP congressman’s last-minute effort to upend Pennsylvania’s election results In what passes for the new normal, swing-state electors had to pass through lines of state troopers protecting them from irate Trump fans. Many state election officials and ordinary election workers have been threatened and required police protection. Meantime, on T...
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Trudy Rubin: How Biden ally Chris Coons hopes to cure congressional paralysis
When 18 Republican attorneys general back President Donald Trump’s latest ludicrous Supreme Court try to overturn the election, it’s hard to foresee any GOP cooperation with a Biden presidency. When leading GOP senators stay mum on Trump’s fake fraud claims and his fans’ threats of violence, with tongues frozen by fear of the president and his followers, it’s hard to imagine bipartisanship in Congress. Yet President-elect Joe Biden has made bipartisan outreach his motto. His calls to heal the country’s bitter partisan divide were a key reason for his victory. And Biden knows that little congre...
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