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Mike O'Connor

@moconnor_nba

Sixers writer for @RTRSpodcast. Formerly @TheAthletic

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I wrote about the 2025-26 Sixers quickly becoming one of my favorite Sixers teams of my lifetime: rightstorickysanchez.com/p/i-love-this-…

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Yeah I’m going to stop complaining about Nurse’s handling of McCain. It’s been 7 weeks since he came back and he’s still clearly not moving like he was last year. You can’t just ride it out indefinitely and hope it will suddenly click again. Think it’s going to take him a while.

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The basketball gods are just. Denver played like it was the NBA Finals and the Sixers played dumb, lazy ball all night. They deserved to lose. VJ was the only guy who matched their energy. Also: Nick Nurse playing Adem Bona over PG deep into the fourth quarter while the Sixers

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New piece for Rights To Ricky Sanchez Podcast: - How good, exactly, is Joel Embiid right now? - How the Embiid-Maxey two-man game has improved as the season has gone on - Biggest area where the team must improve with Embiid on the floor rightstorickysanchez.com/p/how-good-is-…

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New piece for Rights To Ricky Sanchez Podcast: Trade Deadline mega-preview with four types of trades the Sixers could make, plus extended thoughts on potentially including VJ in a Giannis deal rightstorickysanchez.com/p/sixers-trade…

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How do you look at what Maxey and Embiid have done this year and go into the trade deadline deciding to get worse and cut costs. Pathetic.

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New piece for Rights To Ricky Sanchez Podcast with extended thoughts on the McCain trade / trade deadline, plus third quarter woes and the outlook for the rest of the season rightstorickysanchez.com/p/five-thought…

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Sixers net rating with Maxey on, Embiid + PG off: +0.3 All 3 off: -18.7 I wrote about Tyrese Maxey as a floor raiser and why the team doesn’t perform better in games without their two veteran stars (Rights To Ricky Sanchez Podcast) rightstorickysanchez.com/p/how-good-of-…

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The thing about the McCain trade is that the thought process was a disaster on every level — player eval, timing, negotiation, long term cap/money management, reading how it might affect the locker room. Not to mention the coaching side of it, who very obviously limited and

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Sam Hinkie in his resignation letter 10 years ago: "Many [teams] find themselves caught in the zugzwang, the point in the game where all possible moves make you worse off" On the Sixers' long term outlook and whether we are now in the zugzwang: rightstorickysanchez.com/p/have-we-reac…