Sixers Roll Out Absurd LeBron-Maxey Starting Lineup Against Pistons

The Philadelphia 76ers are rolling out a starting five on Sunday against the Detroit Pistons that looks like a fever dream from a broken NBA 2K save file.

According to Underdog NBA, Philadelphia will start Tyrese Maxey, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Bruce Brown, Dean Wade, and LeBron James. If you showed this exact lineup to a basketball fan three years ago, they would have assumed you were running a psychological experiment.

"Lineup alert: Sixers will start Maxey, Caldwell-Pope, Brown, Wade, LeBron on Sunday."

The Sixers are sitting at 2-1 on the young season after dropping 127 points on the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday. Maxey is currently operating like a human flamethrower, carrying the offense with an absurd 28.7 points and five assists per game.

Now you surround him with LeBron and a trio of guys whose entire job description is to stand in the corner and play defense. Caldwell-Pope is chipping in his usual eight points a night, while Wade and Brown provide the exact kind of connective tissue this roster desperately needed.

For anyone staring at the prop markets for Sunday night, this spacing changes the entire geometry of the floor. Maxey and LeBron operating with three capable shooters means the paint is going to be wider than a Costco aisle.

Detroit is walking into the building to face a lineup that makes absolutely no historical sense but might be perfectly constructed for modern basketball. We will see how long this experiment lasts, but for now, Philadelphia has officially become the most chaotic watch in the league.