The Brooklyn Nets will travel to Philadelphia to face the 76ers in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series on Saturday. Brooklyn finished the 2022-2023 season as the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference while Philadelphia is the third seed. These teams faced each other four times in the regular-season and the 76ers won every game which could be a precursor of what to expect in the series.
In the games that gave an accurate depiction of what to expect in the series, the second and third time that these teams faced each other, it became clear what both teams will hang their hat on to compete. Philadelphia will run its offense through potential NBA MVP Joel Embiid while former league MVP James Harden does the facilitating while Brooklyn will run its offense by relying on Mikal Bridges and Spencer Dinwiddie while finding ways to use its speed and athleticism on defense.
There are many factors to ponder for this series given how new the current iteration of the Nets is. To put things in perspective, Sharif Phillips-Keaton of Nets Wire collaborated with Ky Carlin of Sixers Wire to answer those questions from both sides of the matchup.