The Sixers hit rock bottom Monday night, falling 106-89 to the Heat, their fourth straight loss. Sitting at 2-11 and dead last in the Eastern Conference, Philadelphia held a team meeting following the game,

Maxey and Embiid, who have not yet played together in the Sixers' 2-11 start, have a deep friendship outside of their All-Star on-court partnership. The team met after its 106-89 loss in Miami.

When Sixers head coach Nick Nurse took more than an hour to conduct his postgame press conference after his team experienced a horrific collapse in a loss to the Miami Heat — sinking their record to 2-11 — it did not require a detective to figure out what was going on.