He's a Steal: Sixers Get Big Night Out of Thybulle

Former Huskies standout shows off offensive and defensive skills against Kings

Dan Raley | Nov 28, 2019

Bill Streicher/USA TODAY sports

Eighteen games into his NBA career, Matisse Thybulle had a coming-out party of sorts for the Philadelphia 76ers. He was good at both ends of the floor.

The rookie guard from Washington supplied a career-best 15 points and added 4 steals and 2 blocks in a 97-91 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night in Philadelphia.

In this 76ers highlights clip, Thybulle has a block and resulting score 5:36 into it. Check it out.

Thybulle came off the bench for 21 minutes of action, needed after veteran Josh Richardson went out with a hamstring injury. Matisse was prepared for the moment.

"You stay ready," Thybulle told reporters afterward. "It's not a matter of just like getting ready, it's like you need to be ready for every opportunity, because being a rookie, you don't know what's going to be coming your way and you've just got to be able to step up when it's your time when they call your name."

Published Nov 28, 2019

DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.