The Sixer Sense
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Why Philadelphia 76ers Are Improving

By Bret Stuter

Sep 26, 2016; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia 76ers forward Ben Simmons (25) and forward Robert Covington (33) shoot at the basket from the second floor balcony during media day at the Philadelphia 76ers Training Complex. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 26, 2016; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia 76ers forward Ben Simmons (25) and forward Robert Covington (33) shoot at the basket from the second floor balcony during media day at the Philadelphia 76ers Training Complex. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports /
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Despite An NBA Worst Record, The Philadelphia 76ers Are Improving. Have Doubts? Reassurance Coming Up…

It’s another bad year for the Philadelphia 76ers? Perhaps if you focus on the win loss record, and only the win loss record, that is the story of this team this year.

But I’ve considered the fans of Philadelphia to be far more savvy than W’s and L’s mentality.  So the story this season is more than just what you see in the NBA standings, isn’t it?

To start this realistic assessment of the Philadelphia 76ers, it’s important to understand the team’s trajectory.  This is a team of inexperienced rookies.  But they are talented rookies.   In fact, in the absence of the top draft pick from the 2016 NBA Draft Ben Simmons, this team is being led by the pair of redshirted rookies: Joel Embiid and Dario Saric.  In fact, per Sports Illustrated’s Rohan Nadkarni, Joel Embiid is this year’s runaway candidate for the prestigious NBA Rookie Of the Year Award.

Saric and Embiid have given the Simmons-less Sixers plenty of excitement, as expected. Fortunately, this team is more than a pair of rookies.  And there is still the matter of winning only four games.  So far, that’s not much to get excited over. Or is it…..?