SIXERS NEWS

The Sixers' traveled to Charlotte tonight for mathcup with Bobcats, the last team against which they had a victory before the 8 game losing streak they came into tonight with. Thus there was thought that maybe just maybe this would be the night the streak ended. Unfortunately it was not. Before they even took the court the Sixers became even more shorthanded then they already were as the rookie Jrue Holiday went down with a rotator cuff injury, which has him day to day. That left the Sixers with only 10 active players. Then Andre Iguodala turned his ankle and was seen visibly limping down the court late in the game. The loss of Holiday couple with a limping Iggy ultimately cost the Sixers on this night. They actually played well shooting 42% from beyond the arc with 8 threes, which helped to spread the wealth around enough for them to get 5 guys in double figures. Willie Green, in what could be his last start for a while, led the way with 26, Iggy dropped 22, 11 rebounds and7 assists, Elton Brand returned to the starting lineup provided 14 and 8 rebounds, Thad Young had a big night with 17 and 11 rebounds and Jason Kapono hit a pair of threes and scored 14 off the bench. Thanks to the scoring the Sixers were able to built a 10 point lead with a little over 4 minutes to play. However, with their best defended and playmaker limping around the Sixer's defense did not hold up down the stretch and they couldn't score, allowing Charlotte to roar all the way back to take the lead 106-105, on a Raymond Felton layup with just 4 seconds to play. From there the limping Iggy somehow managed to get off a final shot at a buzzer, but it missed to cap off the Sixers 9 loss in a row. What a team. Incredibly though, despite the losing streak, they're still at 5-15 overall, only 3 games out of 8th in the Eastern conference.