VJ Edgecombe hits Jordan shrug after wild and-1 for 76ers (0:22) VJ Edgecombe hits Jordan shrug after wild and-1 for 76ers (0:22) Tim Bontemps Apr 15, 2026, 10:41 PM ET Close Tim Bontemps is a senior NBA writer for ESPN.com who covers the league and what's impacting it on and off the court, including trade deadline intel, expansion and his MVP Straw Polls. You can find Tim alongside Brian Windhorst and Tim MacMahon on The Hoop Collective podcast. PHILADELPHIA -- As the final seconds ticked Wednesday night at Xfinity Mobile Arena, the Sixers ' crowd belted out a familiar refrain around these parts. "We want Boston!" Thanks to a hard-playing -- if not exactly pretty -- effort from their team, the Philadelphia fans will be getting just that. The Sixers defeated the Orlando Magic 109-97 to earn the No. 7 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs, where they will face their rivals, the second-seeded Boston Celtics , in a first-round series beginning at 1 p.m. ET Sunday at TD Garden.…