Five-plus months of waiting turned into three days of exploring.

The longest Sixers offseason in several years has come and gone, but the team's trip to Abu Dhabi is on the docket now. They will play two preseason exhibitions against the New York Knicks out there after holding their Media Day on Friday and then a pair of practices at their facility in Camden over the weekend.

For a week or so, the Sixers will be away from their contingent of local media, which made the information-gathering process over the weekend a whole lot more important.

In this week's , a collection of notes and observations from a few days into the 2025-26 campaign:

Joel Embiid: "I understand the situation that I'm in"

After lots of thinking, the best word that can be used to describe the sort of demeanor Joel

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