After Philadelphia was eliminated from the NBA playoffs by the Atlanta Hawks at home on Sunday night, 76ers fans were shocked. The Atlanta Hawks are one of the most “meh” teams in professional sports.

Some people may choose to avoid NBA news and discussions altogether this week, but choosing to be numb is ultimately no better or easier to bear than feeling the salt on the wound.

After the 76ers lost 103-96 in Game 7, most of Philadelphia’s attention was focused on Rivers, Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid’s press conference, which is understandable. Significant changes may occur this offseason-again-the Philadelphia leader’s reaction is more important than accepting Trae Young’s Varuji smile.

There is a long list of villains on the Atlanta Hawks roster. Philadelphia will always remember Kevin Huerter’s excellent Game 7 performance. He is exactly the kind of threat from Joe Jurevicius, who will kill us when the most important thing is. Up to us. Looking back on this season, this is arguably the most painful reality that 76ers fans will have to endure.

But on the court, are there any more annoying and confrontational Eagles players than John Collins? At some point in the series, he seemed to have a quarrel with everyone on the 76ers, none of which was Joel Embiid.

In Game 6, Collins passed Embiid to Embiid with one of the most vicious dunks in recent memory. When Embiid came down, he put his elbow around Embiid’s neck and somehow managed to become the one who fouled the game. The fact that the 76ers continued to win that game softened the moment, but Collins had the last laugh.

After the 7th game, Collins appeared in the post-match press conference wearing a T-shirt with Embiid dunk pattern. This is a kind of stingy, even Embiid, at the peak of his troll power, may not succumb in victory.

Embiid bluntly expressed his disappointment at the post-game press conference that the NBA was fined $35,000 for another conflict with Collins at the basket.

“I was fined in the last game for raising my arms when my frightened back was pushed down?” Embiid asked. “I was fined just because, I think-I don’t know why. A lot of things went wrong. As a team, we still need to get better. We have a good chance of winning. We just made a lot of mistakes. ”

Collins’ brutal behavior in the 76ers-Hawks series led to Twitter’s misleading backlash against another British rower, John Collins, who participated in the 2016 Olympics.

This is another difficult ending of the 76ers season. There is not much solace to find, especially when this team has such high expectations and the Eagles are not expected to pose a serious threat to Philadelphia’s home-court advantage in the seven-game series. But here we are.

If the Bucks can beat the Eagles in the Eastern Conference Finals and bring them back to Earth, it will be alleviated.