By Howard Beck If you tuned in expecting brilliant basketball from two NBA titans, you’d have been disappointed. But if you tuned in for the spectacle of it all, well, there was no shortage. View the original article to see embedded media. PHILADELPHIA – After all the hype and the hoopla, all the bitterness and all the hand-wringing, after a blockbuster trade that reshaped two franchises and reshuffled the NBA power grid, the Nets and Sixers finally faced off Thursday night and … it was as if nothing had changed at all. Ben Simmons didn’t play for Brooklyn, after months of not playing for Phil…