SkyForce10 was over the scene after a car drove into an apartment building on Woodhaven Avenue in Philadelphia on Wednesday night.
First responders were still dealing with the scene when out chopper was overhead just after 10 p.m.
It appears a car slammed into the corner of the building, causing bricks and debris to spread in the area.
It is unclear if there are any injuries or what caused the crash at this time, but NBC10 is working to learn more and we will update it here when we can.
The spotlight was all to Trevor Zegras as he scored twice against his old team, while Cutter Gauthier continued to draw the scorn of an entire fan base that won’t be letting up any time soon.
Joel Embiid (left knee injury management; right ankle soreness) is questionable to play when the Sixers host the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night, according to the team’s initial injury report for the game unveiled on Tuesday, which also lists Kelly Oubre Jr. and Trendon Watford as questionable to return from their long-term absences:
The Sixers have an injury report for tomorrow’s game vs. Washington:
Joel Embiid – left knee injury management; right ankle soreness – QUESTIONABLE
Kelly Oubre Jr. – left knee sprain – QUESTIONABLE
Trendon Watford – left adductor strain – QUESTIONABLE
For the first several weeks of the season, Embiid was on a strict load management plan that included multiple days off in between appearances. In early December, Embiid logged two starts in a three-day span for the first time, and as the Sixers’ schedule has compressed over the last week he has been cleared for considerably more action. Embiid has played every other day for a week; if he suits up against the Wizards it will be his fifth game in nine days.
During the four games he played over the last seven days, Embiid has averaged 36.5 minutes per game, including a season-high 40 minutes in the team’s overtime loss to the Denver Nuggets on Monday. Embiid said after the game that, while he did not expect his minutes total to get that high and made a remark about how long it had been since he reached that number, he felt “pretty good.”
Meanwhile, Sixers head coach Nick Nurse said after Kelly Oubre Jr. and Trendon Watford participated in an intense scrimmage with assistant coaches after Monday’s morning shootaround that both rotation forwards would be cleared to play “any day.” That day seems to have come. Oubre has been sidelined since he sprained the LCL in his left knee on Nov. 14, while Watford went down with a left adductor strain on Nov. 25.
PHILADELPHIA — These are the stories nine Nuggets bench players and their coach will tell decades from now about a peculiar basketball game in Philadelphia.
It was a random enough game, one of 82 on a Monday in January, that it will fade from collective memory eventually. Just not from theirs. David Adelman will tell the story of “one of the best NBA wins I’ve ever been a part of in my life,” as he described it in the locker room, his stoic demeanor giving way to emotion that might’ve been verging on tears. “That was (freaking) special, man.”
He’ll reminisce about strategizing for a seemingly insurmountable matchup without seven of his usual rotation players, without his entire starting lineup, without Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray. He’ll tell the story of his staff’s edict to “keep five guys in the paint and try to win the ball,” because the Nuggets didn’t have a healthy center, and they were playing against one with an MVP trophy. He’ll recount how he urged them to “play fast” and hunt easy buckets to avoid the limitations of a half-court offense. How he had no choice but to use all nine available players, including two who knew only garbage time in the NBA until a few days earlier.
He’ll compare it to a February 2020 win over Utah, where the Nuggets had only seven guys at their disposal, also on the second night of a back-to-back. But one of the seven was Jokic.
“This one is different,” Adelman said. “This one is unique, because our best player didn’t play. … When they’re older, 20 years from now, they’ll probably grab a beer and talk about this game.”
Bruce Brown will tell the story of his game-winner that never actually went through the net. It was a fitting climax, first requiring the Nuggets to get a defensive stop while they were down one point with a six-second clock differential in overtime. They collapsed on 76ers rookie sensation VJ Edgecombe in the lane. Peyton Watson disrupted his driving layup. Spencer Jones blocked Joel Embiid’s tip-in attempt, tumbling over Edgecombe. While the bodies hit the floor, Brown was waiting at the free-throw line. The ball caromed to him for a one-man fast break.
Keep five guys in the paint and try to win the ball. Play fast. “I didn’t have to call a timeout,” Adelman said. Embiid tried to chase Brown down for a block, but the ball had already touched the backboard when the Nuggets’ nemesis got to it. Goaltending was called with 5.3 seconds left.
“I was in the perfect position,” Brown said. “I knew everyone was in the paint, trying to go rebound. I was just like, I’m going. There was only one person back.”
He’ll tell the story of human nature. How it worked to Denver’s advantage. How he’s sure that a Philadelphia squad with Embiid, Edgecombe, Tyrese Maxey and Paul George in the lineup overlooked this game after winning four in a row. How Brown could hardly blame them because he’s been doing this long enough to know that it’s almost unavoidable in an 82-game season. He was the most experienced player available for the Nuggets. Their other eight players had combined for 94 NBA starts before Philadelphia, and only 45 before this season.
“People are expecting us to lose. We have nothing to lose, right?” Brown thought. “Go out there and hoop. We’ve been on the other side before, where other teams sit people out, and the same thing happens. So I knew they were probably gonna take us a little light. … When I’m on the other side, sometimes that happens, right? The other team just comes out playing extremely hard, and you’re like, eh, bench guys; they’re not the starters.”
Jalen Pickett will tell the story of how he quieted his older brother. “He’s my biggest critic,” the 6-foot-2 point guard said, “so I can’t wait to see what he says tonight.” They don’t get to see each other often during the NBA season. This was an exception, a reunion in Philly. Pickett, who finished his college career at Penn State, scored a career-high 29 points to lead the Nuggets. He added five rebounds and seven assists.
“He was just absolutely in control of this basketball game,” Adelman said. “With all those great players on that court, he was the guy tonight.”
Pickett’s first three years of pro hoops have been an emotional roller coaster. Drafted in the second round in 2023, he became a focal point of the tension between former general manager Calvin Booth and coach Michael Malone. Palace intrigue encroached on his confidence at times. But a 7-for-11 outside-shooting performance in Pennsylvania? Three step-back 3s over the 7-foot Embiid? It was the best Pickett has felt on a basketball court since “probably back in college, having the ball every possession.” He’ll tell the story of the Nuggets’ nickname for one night: “We were calling ourselves the Denver G League.”
Hunter Tyson will tell the story of his go-ahead 4-point play, the crux of a 14-0 fourth-quarter run after Denver trailed 98-89 with 11 minutes to go. He scored half of his 14 points during that run. Perhaps no sequence was more crucial to the momentum than his contested rebound and pull-up 3-pointer in transition, which he buried while getting fouled. “We were just a bunch of dogs tonight,” he said afterward.
He’ll tell the story of the bench’s comradery and patience. Tyson was drafted five spots after Pickett in 2023. Seven of Denver’s nine available players have suited up for the Grand Rapids Gold, a developmental G League affiliate. Eight of the nine were either drafted by the Nuggets outside of the top 20, or signed by the Nuggets out of college as undrafted free agents. Before this game, Tyson had played 50 total minutes in the first 35 contests of the season.
“He might be our hardest worker,” Pickett said.
“We’re blessed with the opportunity to be in the NBA, to be in this position. So I really try to keep a good perspective about things,” Tyson said. “And maybe even if I’m not playing as much as I want, just try and get a little better each day.”
He’ll tell the story of how that patience was a virtue on the final play of overtime, when Maxey released a potential game-winning floater. It threatened the three hours of maximum effort Denver had devoted. But it rolled off the rim as time expired, igniting a spontaneous celebration of hugs.
“Dude, I swear it sat there forever,” Tyson said, laughing. “I was really glad it didn’t go in.”
Zeke Nnaji will tell the story of Adelman’s relentless encouragement, which Nnaji says dates back months before the one game when it was most necessary. “He says that we’re so deep, we’re so talented, that on a random night, it could be anyone’s night. He’s constantly hammering that message home,” Nnaji said.
“I think it’s really DA. … He believed. And we all believed.”
Nnaji is the third-longest tenured Nugget behind Jokic and Murray, but his four-year, $32 million contract has been widely ridiculed as a waste of money on a player who mostly rides the bench. For at least one night, none of that mattered. Nnaji was Embiid’s equal, amassing 21 points, eight rebounds, two steals and two blocks off the bench as Denver’s fourth-string center. He’ll tell the story of how it felt like a “normal” game, if only because the reserves are so accustomed to playing pickup together on the practice court. They need the reps.
“We play with each other so much,” he said. “Especially when everyone (in the starting lineup) is healthy, we’re always playing with each other. … Opportunities like this are so rare.”
Adelman will tell the story of Denver’s pregame shootaround someday, once he can get through it without choking up. “This morning, walking through (the plan) with nine people,” he said, “it was really special.” He had to stop himself there.
The nine also consisted of Julian Strawther, DaRon Holmes II and Curtis Jones. Others who contributed behind the scenes will also tell the story of this game, though. The team security guard who ran down the back hallway, ecstatic. The starters who sat out and cheered from the bench, including Aaron Gordon, who sat at his locker room stall perusing the box score afterward with a proud smile. The player development coaches who work closely with Denver’s reserves. As two of them walked through an empty arena toward the team bus, one declared, “Shoutout PD,” lifting the Modelo can he was carrying in a toast to themselves.
When Nnaji tells the story, he’ll always return to Pickett’s deadeye shooting. “There were a couple of times Pick hit a step-back on Embiid, and I just go crazy whenever he hits one of those,” Nnaji said.
Pickett will tell that story, too. His children and grandchildren will hear that one.
“Oh my gosh,” he said, perhaps still in some disbelief. “I’m gonna tell ‘em I was giving MVPs buckets out there.”
The Sixers have two rotation forwards set to return from long-term injuries in the near future. How will head coach Nick Nurse’s rotation change when Kelly Oubre Jr. and Trendon Watford get back on the floor?
According to police, 45-year-old Jason Bullock, of Philadelphia, was taken into custody at the 8500 block of State Road at around 1 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, police said.
Bullock is accused of shooting two people at a Speedway at the 500 block of West Lehigh Avenue just after 11 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, police said.
One of the victims, 22-year-old Pablo Rivera, Jr., was shot in the head and died in the hospital two days later, police said.
The second victim, a 20-year-old woman, was shot twice in the leg and is expected to survive, police said.
The 11-5 Philadelphia Eagles have clinched the NFC East and will be either the 2 seed or the 3 seed in the playoffs. They’ll finish up their regular season against the 4-12 Washington Commanders. Here are our five things to watch.
In Week 18, the Philadelphia Eagles will be resting starters while simultaneously hoping to win their game against the Washington Commanders with backups. Otherwise, there are a lot of matchups around the NFC that will determine playoff seeding. Here we’ll lay out a rooting guide for non-Eagles games on the NFL schedule for those of you on the fence while watching the other action around the league.
PennDOT is beginning a $261 million project to repair the Girard Point Bridge on I-95 over the Schuylkill River. Work starts Jan. 12 and will take five years.
An investigation is underway after a man and his three dogs were found dead inside a home in East Germantown on Friday evening, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.
Officers were called to a house on the 1900 block of Medary Street just after 6:30 p.m. for a report of an unresponsive male, Philadelphia Police Captain Christopher Bradshaw said.
When the officers got into the house, they found three dogs who had been shot as well as a man laying on the floor with a dog bite to his ankle, Captain Bradshaw explained.
Bradshaw told NBC10 that the man’s wife had come home from work to find him unconscious.
Investigators say that they do not know who shot the dogs or how the man died, but they do believe the circumstances around this case are suspicious.
Police also said that there was a fourth dog who was found inside a bathroom in the home. ACCT Philly has taken the dog into their custody.
Jill Scott will drop her sixth studio album, ‘To Whom It May Concern,’ on Feb. 13. The release, her first since 2015, features Tierra Whack, JID, Too $hort and Ab-Soul. The lead single, ‘Beautiful People,’ is out now.
Police explained that the Jeep is possibly a 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4XE that is red or burgundy in color with the Pennsylvania license plate “MXB-1835.”
Both Rodriguez and the SUV were initially traveling westbound on Lancaster Avenue, with the car trailing behind Rodriguez. However, Rodriguez tried to make a left turn southbound onto North 56th Street when he was struck by the SUV, police said.
The SUV initially appeared to swerve and then continued westbound on Lancaster Avenue, fleeing the scene, police said.
Rodriguez was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:47 a.m., police said.
Rodriguez was a a longtime employee and DJ for Bob and Barbara’s Lounge in Center City.
According to Philly Bike Action, a bicyclist activist group in the city, Rodriguez was the seventh cyclist to be killed by a motorist in 2025, which is up from three total deaths in 2024.
The crash is being investigated by the Philadelphia Police Department, and anyone with information is urged to contact investigators at 215-686-TIPS (8477) or anonymously online here.
For over a year, the Sixers’ three players inked to max contracts have been discussing the importance of continuity for the sake of building a rhythm. Perhaps this is what they had in mind.
