The Sixers also honored Allen Iverson … with their first system
First attack on Sixers facing Pelicans. Tyrese McKay crosses the court using a double screen from Dominique Barlow and Joel Embiid then serves to VJ Edgecombe, the point guard goes for a layup.
What is extraordinary about that? In fact, this cut across the width of the court, with two screens at the head of the racket to get free, is called in basketball jargon un « Iverson Cut » because it was a strategy that Larry Brown used extremely well to give his player maximum cap space in Philly.
Obviously, for Derek Bodner and Kyle Neubeck, Philadelphia’s sharpest reporters, it couldn’t have been a coincidence at the time. that the franchise celebrated 25 years troupe finalsAllen Iverson.
Our colleague Kyle Neubeck therefore went directly to ask Nick Nurse a question after the press conference, and the Sixers coach replied that “absolutely intentional” from his side and his team.
nice wink as Darko Rajaković used to do after the death of his friend Dejan Milojević.
On the first play of the game, the night they honored Allen Iverson and the 2001 Sixers, Nick Nurse called the Iverson Cut to lay up Tyrese Maxey.
I leaned over @KileNeubeck and said it had to be on purpose. Kyle found the nurse and confirmed that she was. pic.twitter.com/rRITRl1pPi
— Derek Bodner (@DerekBodnerNBA) February 1, 2026
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