You read that right. The 76ers are the best team in basketball. They are going to shock the world by not only sneaking into the play-in tournament but also surging through that and the playoffs to win their first NBA championship in over 40 years. The Celtics, Cavaliers and Nikola Jokic stand no chance. Get ready world.
Now you may be asking what makes me think this. Joel Embiid is out for the year. Paul Goerge and Tyreese Maxey have been plagued with injuries and have been terrible when healthy. They are 12th in the Eastern Conference and are over four games out of a play-in spot. Where do you see hope?
Allow me to introduce you to the new-age 76ers.
Remember when the Mavericks traded away Luka Doncic? Turns out he wasn’t the only stud guard they traded away for an injury-prone forward. Quinten Grimes has been on a tear since joining the Sixers, featuring multiple 30-point games.
You must also sit and see that Paul George is adopting a new strategy. In the past, you’ll see him ball off in the regular season and his podcast, only to play miserably in the playoffs. He now sees that he’s wasting his good basketball too early, so instead of Playoff P showing up in the playoffs, he’s getting all his bad basketball out in the regular season first. That way, he’ll play like an MVP come playoff time and no one will ask any questions. Having 10 playoff teams in a 15-team conference allows teams to do this. Better than Tobias Harris (who cares if he returned to form in Detroit, everything was his fault).
Then there’s the issue of Maxey. He’s been terrible, but clutch. You saw how he nearly carried us past the Knicks last playoffs with his shooting. He just needs a better team around him to ball off, and he seems to have that this year. I’d personally like to think that this lineup is significantly better than last year’s.
Instead of the injury-prone bum in Embiid, we have Andre Drummond at center. Once a star for the Pistons, he’s bounced around the league as a backup for a while before this year. Oddly enough, this is his second stint with the team, as he joined back in the fall of 2021 to back up Embiid before being shipped to Brooklyn in the James Harden deal. Now that he’s starting, we don’t have to worry about our center constantly getting injured as he refuses to flop and fall all over the place.
There’s also Guerschon Yabusele, who went from postering Lebron at the Olympics to being the best power forward we’ve had since Dario Saric (I wish I could say something different but this is actually true). Becoming a starter post the Caleb Martin injury and trade, he’s been averaging 10 points per game whilst shooting 50 percent from the field.
This right here is depth for the ages. I’m telling y’all, the 76ers are ready to sneak up on the league.
Oh, who am I kidding? This team is going to be bad for decades to come. At least we have the Eagles.
Colin Tomczak 
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