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has made the Sixers a more dynamic offensive team so far, fitting seamlessly in pick-and-roll situations with Embiid, taking Tyrese Maxey under his wing and elevating Maxey’s play and production. Butconsisted of two opponents — the Timberwolves and Knicks — targeted for the league’s play-in tournament, and Cunningham can be forgiven for defaulting to skepticism when asked about a team whose members are soon enough supposed to be riding parade floats and waving at giddy crowds.
Nothing is ever so smooth, and the manner in which those Sixers steamrolled the NBA — a 65-17 regular-season record, 12 victories in 13 postseason games — makes it convenient in retrospect to forget the potential pitfalls that awaited them. Erving’s salary during the 1981-82 season had been $400,000 and would more than double for ‘82-83. But even that raise didn’t put him in the same stratosphere as Malone, who had signed a six-year, $13.2-million offer sheet with the Sixers.
All pro athletes have egos, and when they keep score among themselves, the first stat line has a dollar sign over it. The potential for tension between the two stars was real, or at least seemed to be, except that, according to Cunningham, Erving never made Malone’s money an issue.
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