Daily News | A raucous home crowd inspired MVP Allen Iverson and the Sixers in ‘01. Joel Embiid needs that in Game 3.
. This should all sound familiar. This is familiar. This is Joel Embiid now. This was Allen Iverson in May 2001, before Game 5 against the Toronto Raptors.
“In many ways, it was the pivotal game of that series,” said Marc Zumoff, who called Game 5 for Comcast SportsNet, and the conditions are set up for Friday’s Game 3 to have a similar effect on this Sixers-Celtics matchup. It will have to, if the Sixers are going to have any realistic shot of beating Boston.The Sixers struggled to find their rhythm in Joel Embiid’s return. After a Game 2 stinker, they need to find it fast.
“You could feel the building shaking,” Zumoff, who retired in 2021 after 27 years as the Sixers’ play-by-play voice, said in a phone interview. “The team was jacked. The fans were jacked. By the end of the first quarter, the game was over.”— one incandescent scorer, Iverson, surrounded by role players who were willing to do anything and everything else to win: rebound, defend, be content with shooting the ball themselves only when it was a last resort.
“They’re two unlikely heroes,” Zumoff said, “in that Iverson grew up in squalor. He was in prison for a time. There was every reason to think his life was in danger, let alone blossoming into a Hall of Fame career. All these things had to happen for Allen to become an unlikely hero. Joel was in an environment where the NBA was not as big a deal as it was to us. He takes up the game by happenstance and doesn’t do it until he’s 15.
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