"Lavoy Allen admitted that he finally got his driver's license last week and that he plans to buy a Smart Car.

That, in a way, is a fitting metaphor for the 76ers' season.

Allen is a mountain of a man at 6-feet-9, 225 pounds. Yet, he is not worried about fitting in one of those economically efficient cars.

"I'll find a way," he said.

Like Allen, the rookie second-round draft choice out of Temple, the Sixers are fitting into their role as the Smart Car of the NBA. They don't have that gas-guzzling superstar unlike their opponents tonight, the Miami Heat, with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade."