Philadelphia 76ers’ 2013 NBA Draft Class
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Nerlens Noel, No. 6 overall (acquired via trade with the New Orleans Pelicans)
Acquiring Nerlens Noel in exchange for then-22-year-old All-Star Jrue Holiday was Sam Hinkie’s obnoxiously loud way of announcing the franchise’s intentions to focus solely on the draft rather than actually playing basketball for the next few seasons.
The Kentucky product played 2.5 seasons for the 76ers after missing his first year with an ACL tear. The Sixers traded him to Dallas in February of 2017, and he declined a long-term deal worth around $70 million in order to bet on himself with a one-year deal for the 2017-18 season. He played in just 30 games and signed with the Oklahoma City Thunder for the veteran minimum this summer.
Michael Carter-Williams, No. 11 overall
MCW won the Rookie of the Year award for the 2013-14 season while playing alongside some of the worst players to ever step on an NBA court. Midway through his second season, the Sixers shipped him to Milwaukee in a three-team deal in which Philly received the Los Angeles Lakers draft pick that helped the team trade up in the 2017 draft for Markelle Fultz.
Carter-Williams spent his past two seasons in Chicago and Charlotte, and he played in just 97 games over that time. This offseason, he signed a partially-guaranteed one-year minimum deal with the Houston Rockets.
Glen Rice Jr., No. 35 overall (immediately traded to Washington)
Drafting Rice was not the best call by Sam Hinkie, but the man was picking for the Wizards rather than his own team.
The 6-foot-6 wing had many behavioral issues in his junior year at Georgia Tech: he missed his first three games of the season due to a violation of team rules, he earned a suspension in February of the same season for “non-basketball issues”, and his coach finally dismissed him from the team in March of his junior year for firing a gun while driving under the influence.
The Sixers immediately traded him to the Washington Wizards for Nate Wolters and Arsalan Kazemi, and then Rice proceeded to bounce around from the G-League to the Phillippines to Israel. Playing for Hapoel Holon, Rice led the Israeli league in scoring this past season, dropping 24.5 points per game, but the team cut him in April after he punched a teammate in the face.
He signed for Brazilian team Caciques de Humacao in June, but he appeared in only two games before leaving the team with a back injury.
Pierre Jackson, No. 42 overall (immediately traded to New Orleans)
Summer Sixers legend Pappy Jack never saw the floor in an NBA game for the Sixers, but he got eight games and a start under his belt with the Dallas Mavericks in the 2016-17 season. That was the only time the 5-foot-10 guard received NBA playing time.
The Sixers traded his rights to the Pelicans on draft night in the Nerlens Noel trade, but Philly got them back a year later in exchange for Russ Smith. Jackson spent time in the G-League with the Sixers and Mavericks’ affiliates and then set off for Israel for last season. He thrived and picked up All-Star MVP honors and led Maccabi Tel Aviv in scoring on their way to winning the league title.