With the NBA on hiatus for at least 30 days, I'll be coping by posting an article every day with 30 random/interesting facts from each of the 30 teams. Hopefully, the season will resume when I hit publish on the Wizards' article.
Day 23:
Philadelphia 76ers
Stats are mostly from Cleaning the Glass, but also RotoWire, NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.
- Tobias Harris leads the NBA in minutes played (2,243).
- Ben Simmons is ninth in total assists (442).
- Ben Simmons leads the league in steals (115).
- Ben Simmons is ninth in field-goal percentage (58.5). He takes 72% of his shots at the rim -- in the 100th percentile for point guards.
- Joel Embiid is ninth in PER (26.0).
- Joel Embiid is eighth in total rebound percentage (21.6).
- Joel Embiid is eighth in usage rate (32.6%).
- Ben Simmons is eighth in defensive box plus/minus (2.5).
- Shake Milton's 129.8 points per 100 shot attempts ranks in the 97th percentile for combo guards.
- The 76ers have three players who have seen 1,000+ minutes that are in the 90th+ percentile for their position in terms of long mid-range shot frequency: Joel Embiid (20% of attempts), Al Horford (17%), Josh Richardson (22%). Richardson is the most accurate of the group from that distance, hitting 50% of his attempts.
- Ben Simmons is 3-for-11 on long mid-rangers.
- Furkan Korkmaz is 49% (35-of-71) on corner threes.
- Al Horford is just 27% (9-of-33) on corner threes.
- Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons are both in the 90th+ percentile for their position in terms of drawing shooting fouls. Embiid draws one on 19.4% of shots, while Simmons draws one on 16.5% of shots.
- Joel Embiid and Josh Richardson are both in the 90th+ percentile for their position in terms of drawing non-shooting fouls. Embiid draws one on 4.4% of team plays, while Richardson draws one on 3.0% of team plays.
- Al Horford averages just 1.4 free-throw attempts per 36 minutes.
- Matisse Thybulle averages a combined 3.9 steals-plus-blocks per 36 minutes.
- Out of all Sixers lineups that have seen 100+ possessions together, the best has a +16.2 net rating and contains Ben Simmons, Matisse Thybulle, James Ennis, Tobias Harris and Al Horford. The worst is -23.1 and contains Ben Simmons, Shake Milton, Tobias Harris, Al Horford and Joel Embiid.
- Lineups with both Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons are only +2.0 points per 100 possessions.
- Lineups with both Joel Embiid and Al Horford are -1.4 points per 100 possessions.
- Joel Embiid has the best point differential (+4.9) on the Sixers of anyone that has seen 300+ minutes.
- The 76ers score an extra 5.6 points per 100 halfcourt plays with Shake Milton on the court -- the largest difference on the team of anyone with at least 300 minutes played.
- With Ben Simmons on the court, 4.6% more of the 76ers' possessions start in transition -- the highest mark on the team and in the 99th percentile. Matisse Thybulle adds 2.2% more transition plays -- in the 92nd percentile.
- Opponents shoot 3.9% more long mid-range jumpers with Joel Embiid on the court -- a difference that ranks in the 99th percentile in terms of forcing that shot. With Ben Simmons on the court, opponents shoot 2.0% more, and that ranks in the 92nd percentile.
- Opponents add 2.4 fewer points through transition play per 100 possessions with Tobias Harris on the court -- a difference that ranks in the 94th percentile and is the highest on the team.
- The 76ers have the sixth-best defense (108.1) in the NBA.
- On the road against top-10 teams, the 76ers have only the 19th-best point differential (-11.3). They also have the fourth-worst spread differential (-5.8).
- Philadelphia has the third-best point differential (+10.0) on the second night of back-to-backs.
- Against teams who are on the second night of a back-to-back, the 76ers have the fifth-best net rating (+10.6).
- The 76ers are the third-best defensive rebounding team in the NBA, allowing opponents to only grab 23.5% of their misses.