Philadelphia 76ers: What happened to Tobias Harris’ Christmas shoes?

While the Philadelphia 76ers totally dominated the Milwaukee Bucks on Christmas day, I’ve got to ask: What happened to Tobias Harris’ first half shoes?

Santa Clause was very good to the Philadelphia 76ers this year.

With an ever appreciated afternoon tip-off against the league-leading Milwaukee Bucks, Joel Embiid, and company showcased just how scary they can be when firing at (almost) all cylinders.

But hidden inside such a commanding victory is a mystery of Agatha Christie proportions: What happened to Tobias Harris‘ shoes?

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Yes, yes, yes another shoe story, I get it, small potatoes, but humor me for a moment, these things matter.

Side note- Matisse Thybulle was killing it in his blue PG 2.5 but almost immediately suffered an injury when he switched back to the red colorway. Coincidence? I think not.

Unlike Joel Embiid, who came out all decked out in a pair of mismatched red and green Under Armour mids, Tobias kept with what was working and tracked out onto the hallowed hardwood of the Wells Fargo Center in the Nike ‘Orange County’ Kobe 6s.

Is it a little lame to forgo an opportunity to wear Christmas-themed shoes on, ya know, Christmas? Maybe so, but Harris has been lights out in the month of December, so I can understand wanting to keep things copacetic from a superstition standpoint.

And for the most part, it worked.

Through the first half of the Sixers’ Christmas game, Harris was by far the Sixers’ best player not named Joel Embiid – scoring 12 points in 16 minutes of action.

Had things remained constant in the second half, Harris would have been off to one of his best games of the season, but what happened next will surely shock you.

Harris switched his shoes at halftime.

What?

What?

… What?

Now I’ve heard of players switching their footwear after a particularly bad performance at halftime – “these shoes don’t have any buckets” – but why would you do so in a game you’re winning commandingly, on national television?

Did Harris forget it was Christmas? Did he leave his green shoes at home and need someone to go pick them up? Did he steal said green shoes from the monochromatic man Furkan Korkmaz?

I have so many questions.

To make matters even stranger, Harris ‘shoed’ up for the team’s next game, a road contest against the Orlando Magic, in a completely new pair of blue and white Kobes.

Did neither pair of shoes have any more buckets in them? Did Harris receive this new pair of shoes for Christmas? It never stops with this guy, I tell you what.

Who knows, maybe Tobias Harris is just looking for the lucky pair of kicks to return to his former glory as a 40-plus percent shooter from beyond the arc, but until then, Philadelphia 76ers fans will have a front-row seat to a potentially never-ending series of sneaker swaps.