PHILADELPHIA _ Nobody knows if the NBA season will resume. Nobody knows what form any potential resumption would take. But the 76ers' Brett Brown sounds like a coach who fully anticipates that there will basketball before the end of the summer, as well as one who is confident his team can be there at the end.
"We're looking to contend for a championship," he said Friday afternoon in his first press conference since the NBA halted play in mid-March. "That hasn't changed."
Looking healthy and refreshed, Brown offered a considerable amount of interesting context to a number of Sixers-related storylines, including Ben Simmons' health and Joel Embiid's conditioning.
A few of the interesting highlights: