As the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished.

Sixers Kyle Korver and Rodney Carney were returning home Thursday night from a charity function, both taking the Schuylkill Expressway west. Only Thursday night, near midnight, there was nothing express about it.

When an SUV slammed into a police cruiser, triggering a multi-car crash and sending several people to the hospital, it also shut the highway down for nearly five hours.

Korver said he listened to a new CD several times and now knows all the words. He tried to join the crowd turning around to exit, but wound up facing east on the shoulder. Finally, he fell asleep, waking up only when someone banged on the window to tell him traffic was moving.

Sixers president Billy King also was at the function and left around the same time Carney and Korver did. But King exits at Gladwynne and missed the tie-up.