The Daily Numbers: 1, as in the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft, which the Sixers now hold after winning the NBA Draft Lottery last night.
4, as in the No. 4 pick, which they will not have, since the Lakers checked in with the No. 2 pick, which allows them to keep it, instead of swapping it to the Sixers if it fell outside the top 3 picks.
26.9 percent chance, what odds were that Sixers would get the top choice.
24 and 26 picks for the Sixers as well, giving them, 3 in the 1st round.
10-72 mark for the Sixers last year.
6,692 jackpot in casino winnings stolen from an Upper Darby woman who was followed home from Harrah’s casino. She got the money back when police nabbed the suspect.
66 $100 bills, 4 $20 bills, 1 $10 bill and 2 singles, what she left Harrah’s with.
16, age of girl who is missing in Clifton Heights.
15-30 years in state prison for Prospect Park man in the rape of a 12-year-old girl.
4 ’upskirt’ photos of a women taken by man in a store on 69th Street. Police are looking for him.
2 brothers - twins - from Chester County who are now accused of setting off series of pipe bombs, damaging property, on the Christmas break.
106 mph, how fast Amtrak train was going when it derailed in Philly last year.
8 lives lost in the crash, and hundreds injured. The NTSB now believes engineer Brandon Bostian was distracted and likely thought he was past the curve when he decided to speed up. In fact he was just heading into the turn.
241 employees at National Penn Bank getting pink slips.
3-1 win for Phillies over the Marlins last night.
1 career home run for Tommy Joseph, who lined his 1st into the left-field foul pole.
10 strikeouts in 5 innings of work for starter Vince Velasquez.
17 Marlins in total fanned by Phillies pitchers.
.5 - one-half game out of first place - behind the Mets for the Phils.
Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
Anyone else still have a bad taste in their mouth in the way the Sixers wound up with the No. 1 Pick? And what was Dikembe Mutombo doing Tweeting early congratulations to the Sixers for snagging the top pick. Did he know something?
I Don’t Get It: Tanking. I don’t get it.
Today’s Upper: Kudos to Tom Killion and James Santora. The 2 Delco Republicans addressed the crowd of gun control activists Monday and vowed to seek tougher background checks.
Quote Box: “He went in a matter of seconds from distraction to disaster.”
- NTSB member Robert Sumwalt, on the engineer involved in last year’s fatal Amtrak derailment in Philly.
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