You're listening to rewind, to listen back on press conferences, highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Under the circumstances, it was just the type of game the seventy Sixers had to get through, and they did that. Brett Brown said beforehand that the best tribute the seventy Sixers organization could give to Kobe Bryant's and the fierce competitor that he was during his twenty year NBA career
was to go out and win tonight's basketball game. They did at one fifteen, one oh four over the Golden State Warriors. I'm Brian Seltzer were standing by hoping to hear from Brett Brown post game. The big basketball story tonight in terms of what happened on the courts, was that Joel Embiid return and he scored incredibly twenty four points in twenty six minutes of action while wearing the number twenty four in honor of Kobe Bryant, one of
the two numbers that Briant wore. The number twenty four prior to tonight, had not been worn by a seventy Sixers player since May the eleventh, nineteen eighty six, that was the date of the final game of Hall of Famer Bobby Jones's career, and Beat and Jones talked earlier today. Both of them are huge Kobe Bryant fans. They felt it would be more than appropriate that for this one night, Joel where the number twenty four that had been retired
in honor of Bobby Jones. But yeah, wearing number twenty four, Joel Embiid went for twenty four. Crazy Now that stuff works, and honestly like this just this was the type of game where, quite frankly, in my opinion, you really just don't get bogged down in over analyzing it. There was
so much emotion going into it. If you saw any of the coverage from practice the seventy six or training complex yesterday, heard some of the stuff that guys were saying in the locker room before the game, followed on social the tributes on guys sneakers that all the players wore white numbers eight and twenty four uniforms before the game.
If you were in here, like the feeling. Not that I've been doing this forever, but in the seven or so years that I've been doing this, I've never heard the building more silent than it was at the start of the ten minutes ceremony when there was a moment of silence in honor of Kobe Bryant. There were nine different lights spotlighted on the court in honor of the nine people who died in the helicopter crash in southern
California on Sunday. A frame number white and maroon thirty three jersey for Kobe Bryant and the number he wore at Lower Merion during his high school days, was illuminated center court. There was a decal of number thirty three on this far sideline. Just everything, every touch the seventy Sixers had tonight in honoring the life and legacy of Kobe Bryant was so well thought out. It was so
hard felt and touching. There was no music played during pregame introductions, there were no pregame introductions, and when the ball was tipped, the Sixers took an eight second shot clock violation. Golden State Warriors took a twenty four second shot clock violation, And it just felt so weird that there was business to be taken care of tonight in the playing of a basketball game. Golden State Warriors happened
to be on the Sixers schedule. They're obviously the team with the worst record in the end BA right now. Sixers finally took control in the fourth quarter when they started the frame with a nine nothing run. Golden State had kind of nipped the Sixers Heels, even leading by two points at one point in the third quarter, but the Sixers finally had enough to put Golden State away. Twenty four points, ten rebounds for Joel Embiid, seventeen for
Ben Simmons. Al Horford flirted with his third career triple w at twelve, eleven and eight. Who Old Nato was huge when the seventy Sixers needed a jump. He scored fifteen of his nineteen points, playing the entirety of tonight's second quarter shake Milton well done by him eleven points five or six from the field to go with two assists and a steal in his second straight start, just the first two starts of his career, and Tobias Harris
six to ten from the field for fourteen points. Seventy six Ers knock off the Warriors one fifteen, one oh four. So the Sixers have won seven out of the last eight games. They now have Joel Embiid back, we'll talk with Tom McGinnis about how things looked with Joel Embiid out there, and also just the emotional undertones surrounding tonight's game. Starting progress Sprett Brown courtesy of NBC Sports Philadelphia. As a as a basketball world, it's deeper than the NBA,
and it's it's it's tough too. It's really hard to put into words that that that environment that we just left due to that coach was it hard to really come up with the right energy to really begin in this game. And kind of seems like you guys were a little I didn't even I really chose not to coach at the start. You know, you felt like you're
cheapening the night. You know, you obviously were trying to get us organized, but to come out and handle a game like you normally would handle a game, I would not be telling the truth. If that's that's how we started, and uh, that's that. You go through the sequence again, led the drawl wearing twenty four with Bobby Jones and everything like that. I cannot you called him this morning and ask him for permission. I really don't know that story, right.
What was the deal with with netto he played fifteen straight minutes. Is that just you just let him go because he's playing so well? As it was as it was communicated to me, like I'm getting ready to have Ben come back in and two Ben's you know, I suppose credit as a teammate. He he sort of passed on down the bench to one of my assistants, let's let him keep going, and I said, that's a that's an interesting, uh selfless instruction, and so we did, and
he was he rewarded us. I think when you have nineteen first half points, it's not something that you know, you normally do gonna let Ben sit there, sit there? But HOWU had played so well we decided to roll with it. And he's certainly I think justified with his performance that decision. How big is that for a bank asserting he I think he was averaging forty minutes over the nine games without Joey. You can kind of give him a little bit of a rest there thing. I mean,
I think it. I think it adds up. I think it helps a little. Like he's still I'm sure feels bulletproof at twenty three years old. He plays so hard, he plays extended minutes. You know, there's a part of that I don't feel entirely comfortable with. But he shore plays hard and he you know, it doesn't seem to sort of like let off. I think that, you know, you look at his stats, ended up nine for ten
from the from the free throw line, seventeen points. You know, him on normal terms without how wul's sort of situation evolving. He's going to pepper a stat sheet again. And as I said, I respect the way it was communicated to me, like he was his it was his sort of instruction, you know, let's let how we'll keep playing. He's playing
really well. I respect that. Seventy six Ers head coach Brett Brown that courtesy of NBC Sports Philadelphia, will be joined by Tom McGuinness down here at the Center found the seventy six Ers one fifteen one oh four victory of the Golden State Warriors, and kind of thought time based on that excerpt of the press conference we heard, like Brett's statement that he didn't even coach after the game gone underway for the first little bit, Like that's
it's pretty talent me. What what could you really do? Like had you broadcast a game it just didn't really feel like anything it was. It was flat and particularly like the shot clock violation and the eight second call, you're literally letting the ball lie on the floor and everybody. You know, once you saw it evolving, you realize what it was. Like I said, it had been done Sunday as well, but that's that's not you know, coming out
of the gate firing. That's coming out of the gate honoring and so and it was so well done, Like there were so many things prior to the game that we're emotion packed moments with everybody pouring in and again it affected me too. I was, you know, uh, as you say, trying to broadcast the game getting choked up, and that that's what happens when you're in a community like this, a setting where where everybody feels emotional about
everything that's happened with the passing of Kobe Bryant. So yeah, and then these got to these guys got to come out and compete, and you could almost see, like Tobias on a drive early in the game, like all right, we gotta get going here. And then, like I said, once I think everybody broke a sweat, and once you know, the competition rises and the guys feel it. Then then I think they were able to go out and play basketball and that's what they do, and that's kind of
what Howell was saying post game. Then then you kind of felt it a little bit. And we're kind of at that point then lifted by by the emotion and the sentiments. So definitely a different night, you know, like we we you know, we hope we're never in the place again, right yes, And yet tonight it was so well done by the Sixers and everybody felt it, you know, like, yeah,
it was an emotional time, still tough. Seventy Sixers beat the Golden State Warriors, one fifteen to one oh four, winning for the seventh time in their last eight games. The difference tim In the seven games before tonight, they've gone six and one without Joel and b Joel comes back, scores twenty four, amazingly gets ten rebounds in a number twenty four uniform. But I mean, I I don't know
how you saw it. I feel like he got more and more in rhythm as the game went along, and with this big road trip coming up, I'm excited to see what he might be able to give. But Honestly, I thought its rhythm was off, and yet he was still making shots like it wasn't a textbook form on a lot of these leaning in bang shots, but he was still able to make them and get to the line. So and to me, that's oh, and you win the game.
And so yeah, it's going to take a little time to get back into that rhythm and have the feel and whatnot. And here he had a double double without being one hundred percent I think physically, probably emotionally a little bit. And yet you know, like you say, here you go. You're going on this trip and it's a huge games up and down the line. We Boston Miami, down the road in Milwaukee a week from Thursday, and it starts in Atlanta on Thursday. Seventy Sixers over the
Warriors one fifteen to one oh four. Time we'll speak to you from Atlanta on Thursday. All right, good night, thanks Brian. Sixers win for the seventh time in eight games. They've got some good momentum on their side. They take on the Atlanta Hawks on Thursday. Of course, a different type of night entirely given the past forty eight hours, so much emotion for the seventy Sixers as in the
backyard of whereing Kobe Bryant grew up. They took the floor for the first time since it's passing on Sunday, let us get to some of the highlight calls with the one and only Tom mcguinnis. It was definitely a very staid, respectful, somber pregame scene, no hype music, no player intros. Shot clock violations of eight and twenty four seconds respectively for the Sixers and Warriors, but after that it was like game on and both sides were trying to feel their way into the start of this game.
It was great to see joellenbad back out there for the seventy Sixers, back out top the shake and the Sixers go to a bed eight to shoot Joel against Chris. Chris knocks it away. Joel's got his left hand bandaged. He's gonna shoot him from the wing and make it so be with his first field goal in the game that put the seventy Sixers in front eight to seven. They would trail Golden State twenty seven twenty six after one.
Who was the man who kind of let the spark for the seventy Sixers tonight oh well, Nato the Sixers with Horford screaming for Netto, Howel for three and good Man, he's got a great case about him. Howell Netto called late to the left perimeter and he knocks it out. He's off to the best start he's had as a sixer, no question about it. He was six verse seven in the second quarter, scoring fifteen of his season high nineteen points in the frame. Sixers got things rolling towards the
end of the first half. Bible Mayham mocked Damian Lee's attempt cork mos fort an near quarner and now Bible download a Hartford and a jam great movement with the basketball Sixers movement to the near side then into the lane of Horford al Horford would nine seventy sixes with lead fifty five forty six at that point with time
winding down in the second quarter. Their lead was fifty nine to fifty four at the break, and the third quarter of Golden State, led briefly by two seventy sixers, made a late surge towards the end of the frame and they were able to go up by batalion eighty six eighty two heading into the fourth and that was when a nine nothing run began. Both teams came together
for that national anthem. Here's a lot to Simmons and sipments of the right hand, jam shape Milton with a feet from out fund and Simmons gathers it with his right hand and powerfully stuffs it. Joel and be kept adding to his total. Joel and b to Cork mos corkmas back when bt to Marie Spellman on Joel into the night ain't jump hook with the right hand and got it. He got a roll off the side of the rim and be with twenty points. Seventy Sixers a
big nine nothing run to seize controls. Shake Milton, who made the second straight start of his career and a second overall, was able to help put the finishing touches on another win for these the Warriors turn it over run out for Shake, built down low, well done defensively Milton in the name Milton with the other hand left hand scoop and stood shake rattling roll time out Warriors. Job well done by Shake Milton. In the seventy sixers tonight, which is one of those games he had to get through,
and the seventy sixers did it. They went at one, fifteen, one oh four the now thirty one and seventeen over all. The Golden State Warriors dropped a ten and thirty eight. Six Ers shot over fifty one percent from the field, held Golden State to forty two and a half percent.
Eleven threes for the Sixers, fifteen for the Warriors, seventy sixers plus four on the glass, but only two offensive rebounds, Sixers with sixteen turnovers and the Warriors with fourteen twenty four and ten for Joel Embiid in his return, seventeen for Ben Simmons, al hore for nearly a triple double with twelve eleven and eight nineteen for Wholeno off the bench,
eleven for Shake Milton in fourteen for Tobias Harris. Up next for the seventy six Ers a game on Thursday versus the Atlanta Hawks, the start of a four game road trip that moves on to Boston, Miami, and Milwaukee over the course of the next week. You've been listening to Rewind. Look out for fresh episodes the day after every seventy six Ers game this season,