The Sixers got blown out by 40 and Victor Wembanyama only scored 10 points

Let this sink in for a second. The Sixers lost to the San Antonio Spurs 131-91 on Tuesday night. A 40-point loss where they could not crack 100 points.

There was not a single lead change the entire game. There was not a single moment where it felt remotely competitive. The largest deficit reached 49 points. Victor Wembanyama, one of the most dominant players on the planet, had 10 points. Ten.

The Spurs did not even need their best player to do anything and still won by 40 on the road. That tells you everything you need to know about the current state of the Sixers.

No Dogs: Sixers embarrassed by the Spurs 131-91 in South Philly

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— The Liberty Line (@LibertyLinePHL) March 4, 2026

The third quarter Sixers have become a nightly disaster at this point.

The Sixers got outscored by 24 in that frame alone and scored 11 points for the entire period. The Spurs shot 55.1 percent from the field and 40 percent from three.

For perspective, the Denver Nuggets lead the league in field goal percentage at 50.2 percent and 39.4 from three. The Sixers made San Antonio look like a historically great offense on a random Tuesday in March.

Offensively it was somehow worse.

Philadelphia shot 23.8 percent from three. Outside of Tyrese Maxey’s 21 points, the only other players to reach double figures were Jabari Walker with 20 in garbage time and Cameron Payne.

Starter Dominick Barlow posted 0 points, 0 rebounds, 0 assists, and 0 steals. Are we sure he did not have money on this game?

Tyrese Maxey led the team with 8 rebounds. The point guard. At 6-foot-2. That speaks volumes about the effort level on a night where there was nothing on the line for anyone apparently.

At this point betting against the Sixers the second Embiid is listed as out should be considered free money.

The roster construction is exactly what it looks like

Tyrese Maxey, a promising rookie in VJ Edgecombe who is now dealing with a back injury of his own, a handful of players who probably belong in the G League, and Kyle Lowry taking up a roster spot while contributing nothing.

That is not a team built to compete when one superstar misses games. That is a team that falls apart. This is an organizational failure. Josh Harris built a roster that cannot function competitively without Joel Embiid. That is the root cause of all of it.

Daryl Morey chased Kawhi Leonard at the deadline, traded Jared McCain, ducked the tax, and got absolutely nothing to help the Sixers down the stretch

We can’t forget about Nick Nurse.

I defended him for a while and preached giving him time to build something. I am done with that. At some point there needs to be accountability.

He is coaching a team that gets blown out by 49 points, shows no defensive adjustments, no halftime spark, no ability to get any kind of response from players who clearly stopped competing somewhere in the first quarter.

What do you even say at halftime when you are down 25? Whatever Nurse is saying, it is not translating and it has not been translating for weeks.

The Sixers are 33-28 and fading. The window with Embiid is closing in real time and the people running this franchise keep finding new ways to waste it.

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