Last year, Defector staff writer Maitreyi Anantharaman received a press email about a new partnership between the Sixers and a suspicious metaverse company. What followed is one of the strangest NBA stories we've ever heard, even by Philly standards. Maitreyi walks us through her reporting on a story that includes a potentially fake CEO, a concrete company, and the Sixers doing zero homework.

https://defector.com/what-the-hell-is-this-company-the-76ers-just-partnered-with/

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