Tyrese Maxey and Jared McCain are the hope the Sixers need right now

It used to be Joel Embiid putting up a nightly performance that would inspire a Basketball Reference search to compare his accomplishments against NBA titans. Scoring a point per minute? That's Wilt Chamberlain stuff. These days, we are relegated to tracking the big man's progress in working back from an injury and surgery that took place 10 months ago.
No one would have guessed in late July that Jared McCain — viewed as a guy who needed time in Delaware — would step into those shoes. He had struggled through Summer League, riding the roller coaster with a poor shooting effort and some trouble managing the offense as a lead guard. But here we are, four months later, those concerns lost like ...