Sixers are dog tired. So what? They have lots on the line and no excuses left.

Sixers are dog tired. So what? They have lots on the line and no excuses left. | Opinion [Video]

By Mike Sielski, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

NEW YORK — Kelly Oubre looked like he had just stepped off the catwalk at Milan, which was quite the achievement, considering. He wore pine-green leather pants, a red and black mesh shirt under a brown leather jacket, and tinted sunglasses.

The glasses were for fashion — not, unlike his teammate Joel Embiid, for function. Of course, Oubre had health issues to contend with Tuesday night. Bell’s palsy just wasn’t one of them. He had missed the 76ers’ morning shootaround with an illness, the same flu, he said, that Tyrese Maxey had dealt with last week. Such is life. It’s the playoffs. Everyone’s sick, hurt or tired.

“I feel like dog water right now,” Oubre said after Game 5 against the Knicks, that crazy 112-106 Sixers victory. “But even dogs drink it.”