Philadelphia 76ers Front Court Logjam Myth

Myths begin by retelling a story until presumed to be fact – much like the logjam tale of the Philadelphia 76ers front court.

By now you’ve had the front court dilemma of the Philadelphia 76ers drilled into your heads that it’s become a unchallenged fact. But myths begin that way as well. The triad of the Philadelphia 76ers is one such myth.

To hear tell from the Philadelphia media, they have done a fairly responsible job of identifying the  problem as something that must be addressed by the  Philadelphia 76ers.  To hear the same narrative from national NBA media, it’s an issue that is so great in its magnitude that it is literally choking the life out of the future of the Philadelphia 76ers franchise.

I’m here to correct that, and to point to the simple fact that of the past three years, the “conflict” of who is playing center for the Philadelphia 76ers – of the possible 246 games in these past three years – is just 53 games -the total number of games played by Jahlil Okafor in his rookie season.

There is no choke hold, no depraving star athletes from playing time, no crippling of NBA careers here folks.  53 games.

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53 games out of a total of 246 games is just 21.544715447% of the games folks.  Stare at this monster and understand what it truly is – just a boogie man fictionalized by media to give conflict to the team.

You’ve heard it as often as I have.  “Logjam” “Front Court Fiasco” “Far Too Many Centers”.  Seems to me that if the problem over the past three years is just 21.5% of the time, then its not really been much of an historic problem after all.

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