Another season is over with the Sixers not holding up the Larry O’Brien trophy. It’s now 41 years since the franchise last won a championship.
With the Sixers’ dropping a 118-115 heartbreaker to the Knicks in Game 6, their season is over. As the Wells Fargo Center cleared out for the final time Thursday, the bottom line is the Sixers came up short, like they have in every season of the Joel Embiid era.
But lumping the 2023-24 Sixers in with the iterations that produced unfathomable postseason meltdowns is myopic. This team went through hell during the regular season and showed plenty of heart in six white-knuckle games against a tough New York team.