Although the Brooklyn Nets edged out the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday night with a 114-108 victory at Barclays Center, their win was overshadowed by LeBron James’ debut in his newest digs.<\/p>\n
The four-time MVP took the floor for the first time alongside Tyrese Maxey, Jaylen Brown, VJ Edgecombe and Joel Embiid, and it was, as expected, a sight to behold.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To be sure, it wasn’t always pretty. Embiid was turnover-happy. Brown struggled to chisel out volume beside all of the other starters. LeBron was pass-first at points to a fault.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And yet, even in abridged action that doesn’t count toward the standings, the Sixers’ star-powered fivesome clearly has something brewing. Here’s a look at how each member of the quintet fared:<\/p>\n
Catch up with all the highlights, analysis, postgame commentary and storylines coming out of this one below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the Brooklyn Nets edged out the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday night with a 114-108 victory at Barclays…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-302786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}