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Viva la Philadelphia 76ers frontcourt logjam. Just kidding. The Sixers need to do something about their overcrowded frontcourt. Joel Embiid, Nerlens Noel and Jahlil Okafor are all best suited center. Playing any one of them at power forward doesn’t make much sense, not even if Embiid, who is expected to make his NBA debut sometime [...]

According to Bleacher Report Reporter Kevin Ding, the 76ers are leaning heavily toward drafting former LSU power forward Ben Simmons with the number one pick of the 2016 NBA Draft. The 76ers won the NBA lottery Tuesday night and will be drafting no. 1 for the first time since 1996 when they took Allen Iverson. [...]

The Philadelphia 76ers won Tuesday night’s draft lottery, which isn’t surprising. They had the best odds of securing the No. 1 pick. Plus, you know, Dikembe Mutombo, told us they had won hours beforehand: There are only four possible explanations for this. Scenario No. 1: this could have been accident. Maybe Mutombo, or someone who [...]

Dario Saric, the NBA’s 12th overall pick in 2014, has spent the last two seasons playing in Croatia. But he may soon be coming to a team near you—insofar as you’re within reasonable proximity of the Philadelphia 76ers. From Keith Pompey of philly.com: A Croatian newspaper reported that Saric, a Croatia native, said he’ll play [...]

There is a chance Jahlil Okafor’s tenure with the Philadelphia 76ers lasts just one season. Stacked with bigs, the Sixers need to clean up their frontcourt logjam. Joel Embiid, Nerlens Noel and Okafor are all best suited at the 5. Philly ran into issues with just Noel and Okafor this season, and that problem will [...]

It has finally happened: There is movement within the top-most part of our NBA power rankings. The Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs still sit where they sit, and the Toronto Raptors refuse to relinquish fifth place. But chaos has been restored just about everywhere else, in large part because the Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte [...]

The tsunami that is the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors kept making history Monday night. With a 119-113 win over the Orlando Magic at the Oracle Arena, the Warriors set a new record for the longest home winning streak in NBA history. They have now won an incredible 45 straight home games. HISTORY! The Warriors now [...]

Times really are changing in Philadelphia. Used to be that the Sixers were one of the NBA’s trade-deadline draws, as they proved only last season in many ways, most notably with their decision to flip 2013-14 Rookie of the Year Michael Carter-Williams to the Milwaukee Bucks in a deal that netted them the Los Angeles [...]

The Philadelphia 76ers’ process just got a whole lot more…interesting. Mike D’Antoni is now the associate head coach of the NBA’s worst team, his first official gig since leaving the Los Angeles Lakers at the end of the 2013-14 season. His addition to the staff has been rumor-mill fodder ever since the NBA/Sixers ownership installed [...]

Nerlens Noel already has the Defensive Player of the Year candidate goods. Now he’s looking for some additional offensive chops. After what can only be described as a successful rookie campaign, during which he anchored a surprisingly scrappy and consistent and energetic and effective Philadelphia 76ers defense, Noel is looking to expand his offensive armory. [...]