The Sixers And Flyers Claim Home Court Over Bruce Springsteen

After finishing off the Celtics in Game 7 on Saturday, the Sixers will play New York on that very same floor in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series that night; bumping the concert up or back a night won't work, either, because the Flyers are set to play Carolina in Games 3 and 4 of their Eastern Conference semi Thursday and Saturday. The Sixers then have their own Game 4 on Sunday. Thus, it would behoove Kyle Lowry, Garnet Hathaway, and all other involved employees of both teams to make this addendum to their finger-wagging: Nobody believed in us, including us, and The Boss, too. Maybe Little Steven, but that's all. We mention Lowry and Hathaway because, as their respective teams' oldest players, they are the one likeliest to remember Springsteen, or the way he once held sway over the American musical landscape. That seems unlikely because Springsteen's heyday happened well before Hathaway was born and at a moment when Lowry was just barely in kindergarten, and nobody expects either one to have the Boss on their Spotify lists. He is an oldies act now, as we must all become.