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Sixers' road trip good for team bonding

The Sixers' time together, without family member and friends, will help with team bonding.

Sixers head coach Brett Brown chats with Jerryd Bayless (0) and Justin Anderson (1) during a break in the action against the Celtics.
Sixers head coach Brett Brown chats with Jerryd Bayless (0) and Justin Anderson (1) during a break in the action against the Celtics.Read moreSteven M. Falk / Staff Photographer
    by Keith Pompey | Columnist
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BOSTON – The 76ers' final three preseason games have a home-away-from-home, training camp feel.

That's because the team will be embedded together for six days. The Sixers flew to Boston as a team Sunday afternoon. They're not due back in Philadelphia until the wee hours of Saturday morning on a flight from Kansas City.

The time together, without family members and friends, will help with team bonding.

The Sixers will play the Boston Celtics on Monday night at the TD Garden. After a Tuesday practice here, they'll head to New York for Wednesday's matchup against the Brooklyn Nets at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. Then they'll head to Kansas City for Friday night's game against the Miami Heat at the Sprint Center. That game will be a homecoming for Joel Embiid, who played one season at Kansas,

"You get out with the team, you see a different spirit with all these guys," coach Brett Brown said.

This is the Sixers' first time outside the Philadelphia area this preseason. They conducted training camp at their facility in Camden from Sept. 26-29. Then they had an intrasquad scrimmage at the Palestra on Oct. 1. And they had preseason games against the Memphis Grizzlies and Celtics at the Wells Fargo Center.

Brown likes the "rhythm" this road trip provides heading into the Sixers' season opener at the Washington Wizards on Oct. 18.