
--The Sixers are only the sixth team in NBA history to go over .500 after being at least 12 games below .500 during the same season. The only other team to accomplish that task in the past 20 years was the 2004-05 Nets. --In the past 16 games, the Sixers have made more free throws (366) than their opponents have attempted (326).
QUOTE TO NOTE: "I always said we'd make it in the top five. My number was four." -- Center Samuel Dalembert, about his surprising preseason prediction that the Sixers would finish fifth in the Eastern Conference.