PHILADELPHIA–Everything is settled for the Philadelphia 76ers as they head into the playoffs. After knocking off the Detroit Pistons on Sunday in the season finale, the Sixers are locked into the No. 4 seed and they will take on the Toronto Raptors in Round 1 of the NBA Playoffs.
The Sixers do face a lot of challenges when it comes to the Raptors, but one will be the fact that Matisse Thybulle will be ineligible to play in any road games in the series due to Canada’s rule that one needs to be fully vaccinated to enter the country. Thybulle’s absence will hurt the most on the defensive end as he is the team’s best perimeter defender, by far, and the Sixers will have to figure out how to handle the situation on the road.
After the win, Thybulle opened up in detail why he decided not to be fully vaccinated: