Someone made a 76ers/Avengers mashup video, and it’s fantastic
By Tre LyDay
This 76ers-Avengers mashup isn’t the video we deserved, but the video we needed.
The Philadelphia 76ers are finally relevant in the NBA. No more tanking and no more egregious losing streaks. Sam Hinkie had a vision, and that vision is now being fulfilled. Sixers fans are now enjoying every game their team plays.
What better way to celebrate their talent, and The Process actually working than to make a Sixers/Avengers trailer?? Unless you live under a rock then you know that Marvel released the first trailer to Avengers: Infinity War recently. Insert The Process, and you have a very late entry for video of the year.
I am without a doubt a huge superhero fan, and have watched the actual Avengers trailer no less the 50 times since it’s release. This video shall be watched an equal amount of times because it’s just so good.
The best part is how well the dialogue of the trailer matches up with how everything actually played out. Sam Hinkie had an idea; to tank multiple seasons in order to bring together a group of remarkably talented players. Enter Joel Embiid, Dario Saric and Ben Simmons. They have been brought to together to do what the previous teams never could. Which was actually win games.
On to Thanos’ dialogue about knowing what it’s like to lose. Well the tank squads of previous years sure had that down pat. I guess Thanos was right about destiny still arriving, because we all knew The Process had to start working at some point, right?
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There was nothing fun about watching the Sixers lose 60-plus games every year. There was also nothing fun about watching Embiid sit on the bench in a suit for multiple seasons. But every time they ended up with a lottery pick, and drafted someone that you knew was going to be good you had to smile a little bit.
Captain America always talked about being a team, and defeating their enemies together. The Sixers lost together, and now they’re winning together too. Right now they own the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference, and seem destined to make the playoffs for the first time since the 2011-12 season. Looks like this group of remarkable people has become something more.