It's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder against Tyrese Maxey and the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night at Wells Fargo Center.

Tuesday night the owners of the Sixers will be celebrating their smoke and mirrors trick on the city, somewhere in New York City while their struggling basketball team will be hosting the Western Conference leading Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Oklahoma City Thunder play against the Philadelphia 76ers at Wells Fargo Center . The Oklahoma City Thunder are spending $5,050,504 per win while the Philadelphia 76ers are sp

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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 32 points and Jalen Williams had 24 to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 118-102 win over a Philadelphia 76ers team missing three All-Stars

Despite most — this beat writer included — assuming that the Sixers would have their doors blown off by the NBA's best team defense and individual scorer, the nine players donning red, white and blue played with absolutely no expectation that they were going to be on the wrong end of a blowout.

The Oklahoma City Thunder avoided a letdown with a 118-102 win over the short-handed Philadelphia 76ers. It was a crawl to the finish line for OKC in an otherwise strong four-game East Coast road trip.