"Before Monday night's game at the Wells Fargo Center, two Lakers rookies – Darius Morris and Andrew Goudelock – sat in the visiting locker room and ate the pregame meal of champions: chicken fingers and cheese fries from Chickie's and Pete's. While they noshed, a TV talking head from Los Angeles wandered over and chatted with them. Actually, he chatted at them.

The reporter had clearly done more opposition research on the Sixers than either of the players, and so he set about educating the unprepared lads. He told them the Sixers have six players that average double-digits points per game – even though none of them average more than 16 ppg. He told them that Lou Williams, who leads the Sixers in scoring at 15.5 ppg, is eighth on the team in minutes per game. He told them the Sixers are deep, and that Doug Collins has a rotation where 10 players are on the floor for 15 minutes or more per night. He was right about all of it. Morris and Goudelock had no idea. They seemed genuinely surprised."