Sixers blame snowstorm for loss to Celtics

It's no secret that the Sixers are the NBA's worst team, but they had been playing much better lately, and had won two of their last three before Sunday's disastrous loss to the Celtics.

Philadelphia trailed by 18 in the second quarter, and by 29 midway through the third. When searching for answers afterward, Jahlil Okafor, Nerlens Noel and Brett Brown all mentioned the weekend's snowstorm as a potential reason why.

"It could have been being snowed in for 36 hours," Okafor said. "We just were kind of flat. Nobody had energy. We just didn't bring it."

"I thought you could say the snowstorm a little bit," Noel said. "But regardless, at the end of the day we have to show up and do our jobs and we didn't do that."

"Maybe it has something to do with the snowstorm," Brown said. "I doubt it. We just didn't come with the energy, for whatever reason."

The weather was severe enough to force this game to be postponed from its originally scheduled Saturday start, and considering the fact that the Sixers have been much more competitive in recent contests, maybe blaming it for what happened on Sunday isn't as ridiculous as it seems on the surface.