* The Sixers organization continue to play the bait-and-switch game with its own fans. Last night, 30 minutes before its game with Toronto, Joel Embiid was declared "probable' to play, then, at the last minute, Embiid sat out the game. Just enough time to get a few more fans to buy tickets and attend the game, thinking Embiid would play.
The team itself blew another big lead, this time a 22-point bulge over the Raptors . They have coughed up huge leads several times this season, including a 24-point lead over Golden State.
They are a young team, unable to close, lacking the killer instinct. They are good enough to get up on good teams, but look like deer in headlights when they are challenged by an experienced club.
Now I'm wondering if the 76'ers will even make the playoffs.
* Sports announcer Dick Enberg died suddenly last night. He was 82. He was a California guy, announcing for the Angels and Padres, working over 25 years for NBC Sports, doing NCAA basketball and Wimbleton tennis tournaments, among other events.
I liked Enberg. He had a great voice, an easy-going style, and never was vicious to players. Yet he was honest and told it like it was. Enberg did UCLA basketball during their fantastic John Wooden-led championship run in the 60s. In fact, the Bruins won the NCAA Championship every year that Enberg was their announcer, but one.
he is yet another voice gone from my youth. Madden, Summerall, Musberger, Michaels...I grew up with those announcers. Joe Garigiola did the Baseball Game of the Week. Howard Cosell did Monday Night Football. Jim McKay did Wide World of Sports.
Nowadays you've Joe Buck doing football and baseball. Al Michaels is still around on Sunday Night Football. Jim Nance is the voice of CBS Sports. They are good, but not legends like the guys mentioned above. Maybe down the road we will look back at the current crop of announcers and feel the same way about them as we do about the legends.
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