• Another old friend who recently landed with the Jazz, former Sixers first-round pick Jaden Springer, was ruled out for this contest due to a back injury. Springer, who is still in his age-22 season, inked a 10-day contract with Utah last month, and only a few weeks later inked a three-year standard NBA contract.

The Philadelphia 76ers did their best to blow a 22-point fourth-quarter lead Sunday. But they couldn't play badly enough to lose to the aggressively tanking Utah Jazz.

The Sixers with most of their best players out, beat the Jazz, who sat out most of their best players. On the Jazz's youth defensively, their upcoming contract decisions, and the morality of free chicken.