PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers received a special visit on Monday when the 1983 championship team was honored. Sixers legends Julius Erving, Bobby Jones and others were in attendance as the Sixers took on the Chicago Bulls on Monday.
Their presence allowed the current Sixers to pick their brain and learn what it takes to be a champion in this league. It’s extremely tough to overcome the challenges and the talent across this league to hold up the Larry O’Brien trophy, and the 1983 champions let the current team know about it.
“I mean talking to all of them was actually pretty cool,” said Tyrese Maxey. “Just getting the knowledge and I think coach Doc (Rivers) had them kind of go around and talk about the roles on the team. Some of them had such very small roles, but they were also huge roles because they were able to go out there and cheer on the teammates and be happy about everybody’s success and the team’s success.”
Maxey is a young player who is a major contributor to this team. Only in his third season, he is expected to be the third scorer to help them overcome teams such as the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks. Any knowledge that he can soak up from those players is going to be a huge benefit for him.
The challenge for this group is to end the drought and bring home an NBA championship. It will not be easy by any means, but if it were easy, everybody would do it.
“It’s not easy to win in this league,” added Joel Embiid. “Like I said, you gotta take it one game at a time. You know, when we are at our best, we got a chance against everybody. Even when we’re not, we still got to find ways like tonight (Monday), we weren’t good enough. So we just got to find ways to be at our best.”
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