Philadelphia 76ers

Wells Fargo Center sits in South Philadelphia's sports complex alongside Citizens Bank Park and Lincoln Financial Field - a sports campus that concentrates more regional intensity per square mile than anywhere in the country except maybe Boston. The building holds 21,000 for basketball and the South Philly faithful fill it with the kind of vocal investment that has made Philadelphia sports crowds famous. They will cheer loudly when you are good and let you hear it clearly when you are not.

The Trust The Process era introduced a generation of fans to a franchise that had been frustrating for decades and gave them a team capable of genuine playoff competition. Joel Embiid is a force of nature in person - the combination of size, skill, and touch around the rim is genuinely strange to watch live because the things he does should not be possible at that scale. The crowd response when Embiid gets going is the specific sound of a building that has been through enough disappointment to appreciate what it is seeing.

Xfinity Live! is the pre-game compound directly across the parking lot from the Wells Fargo Center - multiple bars and restaurants, outdoor seating when the weather permits, and the explicit purpose of managing the pre-game crowd for every South Philly sports event. Tony Luke's on Oregon Avenue is the cheesesteak answer if you want to do the thing correctly before a game. The debate over whether whiz or provolone is the correct cheesesteak cheese is ongoing and you will be asked to take a side.

Philadelphia basketball has an edge to it that reflects the city. The fans know the game, they have expectations, and they hold the team to them. That accountability makes Wells Fargo Center a different kind of building on big nights.

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