After a flurry of offseason moves, lots of teams in the NBA will look vastly different than they did a year ago. One of the most noticeably changed teams will be the Philadelphia 76ers. They have put a new face on their franchise in former L.A. Laker Andrew Bynum and shipped off Andre Iguodala to Denver.
Iguodala was a great defender and one of the leaders of the team, but head coach Doug Collins said the team had gone as far as they could with their former cast.
“I personally thought we had maxed our team out I thought we were a team that every night played hard, we played terrific defense and if you looked at our team other than Andre Iguodala we really didn’t have a premier defensive player individual,” said Collins. “Michael Curry, what he did with our defense was spectacular. We didn’t have a dominant rebounder or shot blocker so to do the things that we did on the defensive end to give us a chance we thought was really, really good but we knew if we were going t...
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Andrew Bynum,
Andre Iguodala,
Doug Collins,
Kobe Bryant
TEAMS: Philadelphia 76ers, Denver Nuggets, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers
TEAMS: Philadelphia 76ers, Denver Nuggets, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers
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