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#16: Sixers 2-0: The Record Books Didn't Survive the Week

Necessary Roughness Ep. 16: Sixers 2-0 - The Record Books Didn't Survive the Week

Welcome back to Necessary Roughness—your daily dose of raw sports takes riffing straight off the Twitter feed.

Two games into the season, Philadelphia has beaten both of last year's Eastern Conference Finals teams—and the second one shouldn't have been possible. In this episode, we get into the 29-point comeback that ended three separate perfect records in one night, the quarter-by-quarter math behind how they actually did it, and the shooting split that makes it even stranger. We break down the opening-night…

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