The Sixers are 9-8 heading into Thanksgiving, as a massive collection of injuries have finally started catching up to a team that had shown some impressive fortitude early in the year.

While their recent skid – seven losses in 11 games – is far from the nightmare that was their performance this time last year, the Sixers are clearly running into a manpower issue on most nights, with a disastrous blowout loss at the hands of the Orlando Magic on Tuesday night being the latest example.

“Two or three times a season, you're going to have games like this where just, like, everything goes wrong all of a sudden," Sixers head coach Nick Nurse said after the game. "… You can never really explain it… Just like I told the guys, we’ve got to be better. Certainly not who we are out there tonight.”

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