Tickets were the Sixers’ hottest in a decade, including the postseason, with the upper deck seating going for $200 while the lower concourse fetched as high as $4,000, according to TNT. Fans taped over their Simmons jerseys with the words “baby” and “coward” while 94.1 FM, the local sports radio station, had a hotline named after the Sixers’ former point guard. The “Benablers” were asked to call in ahead of Thursday’s game and confess their sins of having supported the top pick of the 2016 NBA Draft. The station replayed the call of Simmons infamously passing up a wide-open dunk in the Sixers’ Game 7 loss to Atlanta in the 2021 Eastern Conference semifinals, which all but ended his tenure in Philadelphia.