After their latest and overdue blowout win, the 76ers have registered their seventh win of the season with just one loss on their card. Right now, they are in first place in the Eastern Conference, but beyond their impressive start, the team is actually falling squarely into a LeBron James trend that has, more often than not, led to the championship in the past.
James' previous squads have started out a season with a 7-1 win-loss card for a total of four times, and in every single one of those instances, his teams have gone on to play in the NBA Finals. Even better, LeBron won the title in three of those years. If anything, this is a striking championship omen that the 76ers certainly hope would draw in actual reality and the coming into shape of their bid to win the title.
The 76ers could follow a LeBron trend that leads to the championship
LeBron's teams rarely finish the season as the first seed in the conference, so the 76ers racing out to a hot start offers strong hope that this will change this time around. And given the pattern that has governed those times when the superstar's squad had a blistering start, Philly should definitely want to sustain their current trajectory.
Be that as it may, banking on this trace of history ultimately remains an exercise for the superstitious. What is controlling, in the end, is how this cast of decorated players blends together, and to that effect, the 76ers have to be happy about the product they are seeing on the hardwood at this point in time, despite things looking rough and dangling at times.
With James functioning as the team's main organizer on the offensive end, the 76ers are slowly seeing their star players get their respective skill sets optimized and utilized more effectively. It has not always been pretty, but Philly's scoring attack does appear to have more structure and intentionality as a whole compared to recent years.
There is obviously a lot of hoopla surrounding the 76ers' title bid this season, and given the way they started their campaign, the expectations around them are only going to get loftier and stronger. Hopefully, they do not succumb to the rising pressure. After all, LeBron has a pretty good grasp of what a hot start can do to a team, especially when it comes to one he actually leads.
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