Im Aussie, it was drafting Ben Simmons. Now I hate him. I don’t understand why people have eased up on him. He’s a fucking gimp. Fuck him. But I love the sixers 🥰
Dr. J
Probably，most of here would say AI
Iverson. In the mid-late 90s, I was a kid and my parents owned a couple shops in the galley mall. During that time AIs face was plastered everywhere. Shoe stores especially when his Reebok’s were in stock. I was obsessed
Years of incompetence from the bulls + marrying a lunatic 6ers fan made want to make Philly my side piece
I had love for those shit tier post Iverson Sixers. But eventually getting blasted in the first round of the playoffs gets old.
Getting blasted in the 2nd round is more fun.
He didn’t make me a fan but i’ll always love Thad
AI
This is gonna show my age a lot and some may ridicule me, but lebron going to the lakers. I’m a Pittsburgh sports fan and since we had no basketball I was just rooting for lebron on the cavs, but I said if he went to the lakers I’d pick a team bc I ain’t rooting for the lakers or Celtics no matter what. I wanted a young large market team (so we can actually get free agents and stars in trades) and the 76ers best fit that. The embiid era has been such a roller coaster.
Dr. J
Living in Philly
Embiid. Was a KU fan and got into the NBA as Embiid came into the league. Was 12 or so at the time
Iverson. He is the reason why I play basketball
First game I watched on tv was AI cooking the Kobe Shaq lakers in game 1. I was a fan ever since.
Barkley
Fukin cream cheese made me find out about Philly and I just said fuk it and started supporting all the teams from Philly😭
Allen Iverson dragging those defense boys to the finals!
Aussie here, but wasn’t Summons, it was former Sydney Kings and Boomers coach Brett Brown.
Jerry Stackhouse
Ben Simmons. I’d never really followed an NBA team, just Aussie players. When Ben was coming up to draft, I said I’d start following whichever team he went to.
I came for Simmons, but stayed for Embiid
Dana Barros
Dr.J was my dad’s fave and Chuck was mine pre AI. I was born in ’85, i started watching NBA at a young age but AI was the Sixer that encompassed my pre teens to the day he retired. so I guess it was AI that really made me a Sixers fan, but Chuck and Dr. J deserves a mention as they introduced me to basketball and NBA in general.
I guess I followed kind of an unusual route to Sixers Fandom. I grew up in eastern PA, but sports were strictly banned in my house growing up. My dad was a public intellectual, who thought professional athletics were the bread and circuses distracting this country from its decline. In fact, just today, at the age of 75, he bragged to some relatives at my cookout about how he has never watched a single televised sporting event in his life, let alone a live event.
But growing up in school, I would hear all the kids talk about how impressive AI was. He was a god among fifth graders. And from then on, I would do my best to sneak glimpses of a game or a highlight where I could. Once I moved out on my own, there was no question I was a Sixers fan for life.
Always a little envious of folks who get to bond with their parents about sports. My dad still considers it shameful that I’m a fan at all. It also means I have split allegiances, since I discovered different sports at different parts of my young adulthood, in different parts of the country. That can be awkward as well. But, hey, at the end of the day…
Fuck the Celtics.
Living in Philly since I was a little boy. I came online as a sixers fan in the AI run, but I kept it with me. Loved iggy, loved Jrue. Even loved Thad. I believe in the Embiid sixers more than any of those teams. Excited for this season, legitimately
AI stepping over T Lue in the finals when I was a kid
My blood
Iguodala game winner over Türkoğlu – 09 playoffs.
Bandwagon cavs fan cause of 2016( I did start rooting for them when they were down 3-1) went to sixers cavs game next year( Joel first season) sixers lost why one an a jerryd bayless missed layup. Fell in love with the crowd and the young team
Ben Simmons. highkey disappointed he fell off ngl
To be honest, my Dad 😂
Iverson obviously growing up everyone wore Iversons.
What brought me back was that season with Andre Miller and can’t really explain why but my answer: Andre Miller
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Iverson
AI and him
Im Aussie, it was drafting Ben Simmons. Now I hate him. I don’t understand why people have eased up on him. He’s a fucking gimp. Fuck him.
But I love the sixers 🥰
Dr. J
Probably，most of here would say AI
Iverson. In the mid-late 90s, I was a kid and my parents owned a couple shops in the galley mall. During that time AIs face was plastered everywhere. Shoe stores especially when his Reebok’s were in stock. I was obsessed
The Sixers.
Andre for sure. My favorite dunker of all time
Barkley
My dad
Charles Barkley
https://tenor.com/view/erving-sixers-julius-76ers-philadelphia-gif-24926589
IVERSON 🐐
Years of incompetence from the bulls + marrying a lunatic 6ers fan made want to make Philly my side piece
I had love for those shit tier post Iverson Sixers. But eventually getting blasted in the first round of the playoffs gets old.
Getting blasted in the 2nd round is more fun.
He didn’t make me a fan but i’ll always love Thad
AI
This is gonna show my age a lot and some may ridicule me, but lebron going to the lakers. I’m a Pittsburgh sports fan and since we had no basketball I was just rooting for lebron on the cavs, but I said if he went to the lakers I’d pick a team bc I ain’t rooting for the lakers or Celtics no matter what. I wanted a young large market team (so we can actually get free agents and stars in trades) and the 76ers best fit that. The embiid era has been such a roller coaster.
Dr. J
Living in Philly
Embiid. Was a KU fan and got into the NBA as Embiid came into the league. Was 12 or so at the time
Iverson. He is the reason why I play basketball
First game I watched on tv was AI cooking the Kobe Shaq lakers in game 1. I was a fan ever since.
Barkley
Fukin cream cheese made me find out about Philly and I just said fuk it and started supporting all the teams from Philly😭
Allen Iverson dragging those defense boys to the finals!
Aussie here, but wasn’t Summons, it was former Sydney Kings and Boomers coach Brett Brown.
Jerry Stackhouse
Ben Simmons. I’d never really followed an NBA team, just Aussie players. When Ben was coming up to draft, I said I’d start following whichever team he went to.
I came for Simmons, but stayed for Embiid
Dana Barros
Dr.J was my dad’s fave and Chuck was mine pre AI. I was born in ’85, i started watching NBA at a young age but AI was the Sixer that encompassed my pre teens to the day he retired. so I guess it was AI that really made me a Sixers fan, but Chuck and Dr. J deserves a mention as they introduced me to basketball and NBA in general.
I guess I followed kind of an unusual route to Sixers Fandom. I grew up in eastern PA, but sports were strictly banned in my house growing up. My dad was a public intellectual, who thought professional athletics were the bread and circuses distracting this country from its decline. In fact, just today, at the age of 75, he bragged to some relatives at my cookout about how he has never watched a single televised sporting event in his life, let alone a live event.
But growing up in school, I would hear all the kids talk about how impressive AI was. He was a god among fifth graders. And from then on, I would do my best to sneak glimpses of a game or a highlight where I could. Once I moved out on my own, there was no question I was a Sixers fan for life.
Always a little envious of folks who get to bond with their parents about sports. My dad still considers it shameful that I’m a fan at all. It also means I have split allegiances, since I discovered different sports at different parts of my young adulthood, in different parts of the country. That can be awkward as well. But, hey, at the end of the day…
Fuck the Celtics.
Living in Philly since I was a little boy. I came online as a sixers fan in the AI run, but I kept it with me. Loved iggy, loved Jrue. Even loved Thad. I believe in the Embiid sixers more than any of those teams. Excited for this season, legitimately
AI stepping over T Lue in the finals when I was a kid
My blood
Iguodala game winner over Türkoğlu – 09 playoffs.
Bandwagon cavs fan cause of 2016( I did start rooting for them when they were down 3-1) went to sixers cavs game next year( Joel first season) sixers lost why one an a jerryd bayless missed layup. Fell in love with the crowd and the young team
Ben Simmons. highkey disappointed he fell off ngl
To be honest, my Dad 😂
Iverson obviously growing up everyone wore Iversons.
What brought me back was that season with Andre Miller and can’t really explain why but my answer: Andre Miller