Conditioning is a big thing for Nurse and his staff. The Sixers are looking for those players to step up and give them some more production as they get healthier. Joel Embiid, for example, was able to play 30 minutes against the Lakers and Paul George was able to play 32. Those are numbers the Sixers would like to see go up.

It’s clear the Sixers are not built for The Cup … and it’s the best thing for them.

Here are the three biggest takeaways for the Philadelphia 76ers following their loss to the Los Angeles Lakers at home on Sunday.

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Drummond threw down a put-back dunk and splashed a corner three. The Sixers led by as many as 36 points, rookies Johni Broome and Hunter Sallis checked in, and Maxey finally finished a game with under 30 minutes. The NBA's minutes leader logged a season-low 29.

The Sixers might be extracting more value from two-way players than any other team in the NBA as a pair of young forwards has saved the team's depth.

Sydney Sixers won by one run in an extraordinary finale to pip Adelaide Strikers to the last play-off spot in this year's Women's Big Bash play-offs. After Ellyse Perry's 111 in Sixers' 173-4 and having fallen to 86-5 in the 14th over, Strikers needed 18 from the last six balls with five wickets left in the winner-takes-all match.

Jake LaRavia showed on Sunday that after he was hit in the face during the Lakers' road matchup with the 76ers, he nearly lost one of his front teeth.

The Philadelphia 76ers defeated the Golden State Warriors by a score of 99-98 on Thursday night as rising star Tyrese Maxey's team got the better of Steve Kerr's legendary franchise. The 76ers' win included 35 points from Maxey as coach Nick Nurse's team outdueled one of the league's most popular franchises.