CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY - SEPTEMBER 26: Tyrese Maxey #0 of the Philadelphia 76ers poses at 76ers Training Complex on September 26, 2022 in Camden, New Jersey.
NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this phot CHARLESTON, S.C. - Doc Rivers was not expecting guests one day this summer when members of his staff turned up uninvited at his house with a direct demand of the Philadelphia 76ers coach: Tyrese Maxey needed an intervention.It was true.Maxey needed help getting out of the gym.
So a pair of coaches tried to persuade Rivers to talk Maxey into slowing down.The third-year guard found a court, a pick-up game, anywhere with a basketball in his travels this summer and hooped about every day from dawn through lunch through late nights in a never-ending chase at professional perfection.Yeah, Rivers said, no dice."It’s hard to shut a guy down like that, it really is," Rivers said. "They’re young and you kind of let them do it."Who knew?
The one way to get a player like Maxey to actually play less basketball was get him to training camp. Maxey laughed Wednesday as he counted the hours sequestered in the team hotel from the night before, from "like 4:30, 5 o’clock to 11 o’clock" with teammates Joel Embiid, James Harden, P.J.