Daily News | ‘Prince of the City’: Why Tyrese Maxey, the Sixers and Philly are a ‘perfect fit’
A chant of “Max-ey! Max-ey!” followed the 76er with that last name as he trudged down the Citizens Bank Park steps, high-fiving Phillies fans before joining the television crew broadcasting from the front rows of the left-field bleachers.
That adoration, though, would have never sustained with this passionate fan base had those endearing qualities not been accompanied by Maxey’s sharp on-court ascension. “It’s a perfect fit,” Maxey recently told The Inquirer. “What I say about the NBA is you’ve got to be really, really, really good — and really, really, really lucky. I was blessed to ‘fall’ in the draft to a team that is a contender, because all my life, I’ve been on winning teams. … And I was blessed to fall into a spot where I was able to play.
“I was trying to figure that out, like, why is Tyrese so comfortable?” Denyse Maxey told The Inquirer last week. “Even though it’s not the South, it’s on the East Coast … that’s all he’s been around is working people, working hard and being passionate about their city, their favorite sport and the things that they like to do. That’s all he’s ever seen.
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