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Message: [QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 2580126, member: 652"] I understand the process and agree with the philosophy but besides sucking you need to get lucky. The lottery only gives the worst team a 25% chance the first pick. That year when Embiid came out in 2014 the 76ers had the worst record but got the 3rd pick. They were lucky Embiid’s medicals scared Cleveland/Minnesota and Milwaukee where the 76ers were fine gambling as they wanted Embiid’s talent and to continue tanking. They hit a grand slam with Ben Simmons. However they blew it bigtime in 2015 with Okafor over Porzingis or even hell Devin Booker. They also wasted a future lottery pick next year from Sacramento to move from 3 to 1 to take Markell Fultz. Fultz could become a good player but are odds are heavily against him being the best player and they moved up from 3 to 1 to get him. Simmons and Embiid though validated Hinnke’s philosophy. [/QUOTE]