LIVE: Life without Simmons begins for Sixers

Good greeting and invited to our unrecorded sum of 'Not opening nighttime but benignant of opening night' for the NBA season.

With conscionable the 2 games arsenic a pallet cleanser yesterday, there's 22 teams opening their 2021-21 campaigns tonight, including an NBA debut for lottery prime Josh Giddey connected his caller team, the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Philadelphia 76ers question to New Orleans to play the Pelicans, of course, Ben Simmons won't beryllium there.

The Celtics play the Knights, the pre-season stand-out Chicago Bulls play the Detroit Pistons, and plentifulness more. How good.