The Process Was Build On Failure: Chapter 2.

What Initialized  As An Unassuming Thought, Study, And Venture Under The presumed Question: “Why Did The Sixers Fail To Make The Finals This Season?” Gradually transubstantiated Into A Sordid Epic into the Epoch of The Franchise’s History Known To Most As The Much Malaise  “The Process.”  This Article Unwrapped, Explores And Ultimately Lays Bear Some of the Views and Assumption  Of Its History,  Where Its Stands Within The World Of  Basketball Philosophy, The City Of Philly, The NBA  As A Business And Us, the  Fans, Today--Also the Corona Virus Made A Guest Appearance; Forgive Me.

In True Form, Craft, And homage. An Ode To Those Who Mastered Ineptitudde And Paved The Road That Leads To Sports Tatuarus— I Speak Ofcaousre Of The [S]Aints Of The ’70s And The Bucs Of The ’80s, Both Of The NFL— the Sixers Began building On theIr Humiliation And Sufferage.

Most Would Supooose To Build A CounterPosing retaliation With A PR Defensive. The Sixers Were Being Panned By Most Large Media Outlet And Their Nationally Televised Games Slots Drooped Form 11 To 0 Between The Seasons 2013-14 and 2014-15. Any Hope Of Thrwating The Media Backlash Was clearly Awash. The Sixers Masked Themselves In Their Mired Infamy, Presuming Humor Would Innoculate The Shame.

The Sixers Official Twitter Page Famously Touted A Tank(The War Vehicle) As A Profile Photo. Philly Fans Began To Adorn Bags To Express Their “disapproval,” Similarly To saints Fans in the 70s—When New Orleans Was Setting New Standards In failure In the NFL. —-Not That There Were Many Fans To Fashion The Seats At The Wells Fargo Center, The Sixers Were last in Attendance in 2014, And Would Hold This Mark For Years Until That faithful years.  

In Accordance To The Process’ Principles. The Sixers Roster Had Be So Gutted. Not So To Be Devoid Of All Contact With Competitive TAlent, As When The Sixer Took A 17 Point Lead Against Against The Miami Heat On Nov. 22nd, 2015, But Diluted as Such That Winning Could Only Be Achieved If The Team Had To Lose for it, AS When the Sixers Blow Said Lead And Crumbled To Their 24th straight Lost Dating Back To the Previous Season.

By 2014, The Sixers Sold Big There Would Not Be A Single Player from the 2012 Playoff that Remained On The Roster By Seasons end. Moreover, The roster Reflected The Lost In Translation Anonymity The Process  Personified. The Player Whom Room The Walls Of The Corridors In the Fargo Sneter.,  Ish Smith, Isaiah Canaan And Tony Wroten, Alexey Shved, Darius Morris, Casper Ware, Jarvis Varnado, Lorenzo Brown., Henry Sims. The Process Graced These NBA Hopefuls With Significant Rotational Minutes. A favor Some Supposed would Ahve Neer Dwned On These Hopefuls Had Not They Entered The Leagued When. They Had.

Combo Guard Tony Wroten Excelled In His Stint Within The Process.  

Wroten Entered  The League Via The Memphis Grizzlies  In 2012. The 25th Overall Pick in 2012, Wroten Was Found His way To Philadelphia Via Trade Th Following Offseason After Failing To Impress The Grit “N’ Grind Era Grizzlies

In Philly, The Former Washington Huskies  Earned Starters Minutes For Bret Brown’s  Cast Of Cast Aways, And  In November Of 2013, Wroten Became The first player In NBA To Record a triple Double In the First start of Their careers. Form Then On Wroten, Who Fmaoulsy Torn The The Bottom Of A Pair Of Jordan 10s, Would Continue To  Electricity The The Static Wells Fargo Crowd. That Season the Lefty,  Averaged 13 Points In Nearly 30 Minutes Per Game And Scored A Season High 30 Near The End Of That Season. Sadly wroten was Ruled Out Of The 2014–15 season after undergoing surgery on a partially torn ACL in his right knee. He was averaging career highs In Every major Statistical Category. Wroten Was Waived  By The Sixers In 2015 Following His recovery from Surgery. He Has Never Made Any other Pertinent contribution in the NBA.

With Wroten‘s NBA Career Cut Short, the exceptions To The Processes Revolving Door of Expendables Were  Ish Smith And Isaiah Canaan.  Smith Carved Out A Career As A Coveted Backup Journey Man Point Guard Since He Enters The League Of Wake Forest And Flash Productive Capacity A Board the Process And the Sun’s Rebuilding Efforts.

These Two Convergence Stories hat Arre Emblematic Of The Basketball Glory And Sacrelge Of The Process.

There Were A Number Exceptional  NBA Player Whose Budding career Began In The Miasmic Milieu Of  Philly  Between the 2013-14 and 2016-17. Alex Caruso, Jerami Grant, Reshaun Holmes Amongst Others., TJ McConnell, And Hollis Thompsons. All Productive rotation Player who Has The Process To Thank For Their Development And Career Path. This Pro Bloomer There are stories of those who came And Passed Through The Process. Some Who Stumbled Into The Process And Failed To Make  Impact on Another NBA Franchise Their  Processed -Por  Careers faded Into the Obscurity it Rose form.

“Where other teams might end of their bench, those Sixers underwent top-to-bottom roster churn.”

Seismic Shift From The Year Pre Process When Jrue Holiday,  EvanTurner, and Thad Young were still around, in regular rotation under the previous regime.

Of The Player Mentioned Above, Hinkie  Drafted Not One, That Honor Belong To Rob Thron The Mans Who Hinkie Replaced. There Successes In Sixers Uniform Ultimately Acreedit to Thorn, Not Hinkie. . Once The Sixer's Leadership brought Hinkie on Board, He wasn’t “ Married” Or “Invested” Into Any Of These Or The Other Players on the Sixers Roster. Hinkie, Maneuvered But More He Manipulated The Roster To what fit His Standard for Now. With Hinkie At the Helm, He’d Take The Opportunity To Build Iwth Player Taht Would be tethered To His Legacy. Most of Whom He Never had The Chance To OPversee Their Rise.

 Of Course, the Roster Composition had to support The Transformation Their Once Proud Franchise Had Taking On. The Process Made The Sixer’s A Continuum Of Roster Recycling On The Hinges Of Swing Back And Forth for players And Leaving Before The coach had Nay Opportunity Build Frimiliairity. For A Time, It appeared That The Only requirement For A Minutes On The Sixer roster Was To be Capable Of Passing A NBA Physical And Learning A Playbook; Not easy feats, But the Standards are a Staggering deficit from what Other Teams May Have Required. In Converse, Thee Sixer Grew More To resemble A Defunct G-League Roster Aiming To  Afford Young Players The Opportunity To Live Out their Dreams. An Opportunity The Would Be Abscent had The Sixer propose To field A competitive Roster.

After The Now Defunct General Manager Embarked On what At The Time was Touted As The Most Drastic Approach To reconstructing Competitor zoster--By Feilding Anemic Roster, hankie Has Moved Away from the Game. He’s Report To consider A Taking Another Opportunity Should An Auspicious One Arise/ In The Vein Of Men like Leon Trotsky, The Soviet General-- Hinkie Was “Tanking” The Appellative Arranged from The Systemic Evisceration Of A NBA Roster, True Believer.

Come 2014, And Entered Into The Miasmic mix, A New, true embodiment for Processing, It’s Champion Of Sorts, Joel Embiid.

The Cameroon Born Big Man Would Brandish “the Process” As Slogan, And  No Other Player Drafted By The Sixers That, Aside  Maybe Ben Simmons, Could be More well-chosen To Champion the process  Than He.  Embiid started Playing The Game Of Basketball When He Came To America For His High school At Montverde Academy In Florida, At 15-16.  Raw And Unrefne Athlete,  Slender Build, Played Soccer As youth Growing Up In te African Countryside. The talented Big Man, Whose Swift Feet And Powerful Finishes That Have Made Him An All-Star In the NBA, Had Not appeared Capable Of Playing On A High-level High school team Such As Montverde, Much Less the League.

Talent, Need Time To Bud. Establishing  His position And Playstyle And His Form  As Athletic Big He is Today, Needed To Process. Embiid Spent One Season At Montverde Before Later Transfering To The Rock School. Embiid’s One Season At Kansas University Was Shortened By A Back Injury. It Diminished Embiid’s, who Enter His Freshman year At Kansas With questions About His Development, That capped His Draft Stock Right Below His Kansas Teammate Andrew Wiggins, On the Draft Board.

Many May did not remember That Embiid was Considered the Better Prospect. That Was until A Foot Injury Brought His Top selection Status and Nearly His Career, To ruins.

In 2014, The Sixers Were  Mindset of Grand Leaps Of Faith -- The Process Afforded them such.  On the Draft Night, The Sixers Were Playing With Loads Of House Money, So They Nabbed The Big Man At Third Overall.  The oot Injury Nagged on Embiid’s Potential To Start  On Opening Day Into question Or Any Point Of the Season Became Skeptical.

Ultimately, The  Foot and Knee injuries  Straddled The African Born Big Man. Embiid Miss  NBA Action For Most of His First Three Seasons. Not That The Sixers were opposed To Losing Their Talented Face Of The Movement. Losing Was the “Norm,” The “Business,” Losing was the “Culture.” Come 2015; The Sixers Would Once Again endure, or Better yet, Execute A Losing record. For Their Efforts, the Number 3 Pick Which They Used To Grab Duke Center, JAhalil Okafor. As he Is  Known, Jah had several Strong Performances for The Sixers In His Rookie Season. In his Debut, Okafor had 26 Points And 7 rebounds Against Boston. The Duke Big Man Became A regular 20-10 Machine Early In His Career, even recording A 22 point 17 rebound affair in February. Unfortunately, these Were Empty States; the Sixers Losing ways Were There Only Ways. The Team Started seasons 0-16, going on To secure Another Losing Record. Okafor, who Had been A “winner” His whole Basketabll Life Up through college, He Had Just finished his Lone Season At Duke with A National Championship. Entering From There Into The Process Must Have Been A Culture Shock.  Not Too Mention, Once Noel Recovered Form N=Knee Surgery The Front Court Became A Crowded. Neither Okafor Nor Neal Was Exceptional And Stretching the Floor. Okafor Posesesed the Most Offensive Skill among The Two. But His Feet Were bolted To Floor Ahdn His Play Style Was Better Suited To Be record In Balck In White. Noel was The Defensive Ended Mover Of The Two. His Offensive Game Never Developed Beyond A Rim Running Big Man. “Okafor and Noel were incapable of playing together, and at one point, it looked like Embiid might never take the floor. The Process, for the moment, was nothing but a false idol”.

 Okafor would Find His Way Out Of Philly Venture To The World Of Journey And Street Combat specialists.  Soon So Would Noel, Minus The Misdemeanor.

Save Your Tears. Philly Lost Two Lottery Picks But The Process Was One Thing Anything, Calculated, Always Capable Of reinventing Itself.

“Hinkie ran [the Sixers] into the ground on the assumption that a rigged system would allow for it to rebound grandly.”

For Their Losses, The Process Would Enter  Phase 2 Sort of And With It The  Second of Their titular Titans,  Ben Simmons.

 Hinkie’s Proposals Of Intentional ineptitude Inspired A Response From the NBA. By 2017 The Sixers Had Been Washed In First Round Talent, Nerlens Noel, Jahlil Okafor, Dario Saric, Who The Sixers Secured in Exchanged, Markelle Fultz, And Ben Simmons, But They Were Also Sunken Into Unkown Depth Of Ignobility, The Likes Of Which Appeared to Frightened The Operational Structure Always Concerned About Competitive Balance and The Integrity Of Its Product That Was Now Threaten ing By This Scourge Of team fighting Themselves, aiming Backward in Hopes of Getting  Ahead Of the Competitions.

The NBA Devised A Counterstrike Operation  So to  Say, Tailored To Paush Against The Process.

The  Art Of Constructive Losing as Perceive As A Threat To The Integrity Of The Game. The Sixer’s Franchise, Had Moved On Form Hinkie And Entered Into the Brian Goangelo era With When Process Believed To be Expiring. The NBA Would Make Sure It Did, By The Motion To “de-incentivize losing.”

Since, Its controversial Institution In 1984, The Nba Draft Lottery Had Stood firm—A Living testament Against the League Who champions Progressive A=ideal Above most Other. Achievements. There Is Reson For The Anachronistic   System Of Talents Dividends; It Worked.

The Lottery Remained one of the only Unaltered Aspect Of Association Unmarked By Meaningful Change For Decades. The Odds And Percentages Tethered To PickS One Through Three, The Only Picks Much Value, was  Establish In The ’80s On the Principles Of Varying Odds And the Drama That ensued From The Shakeup Of  Pin Balls Could Produce the Evening Odds And Off-Season Drama  In They Approach To The NBA Draft Lottery. Ultimately The NBA ratified the Changes In 2019. 

Evenly Dispersing  The Odds Of Winning  The Number 1 Pick Amongst  The Top Three Worse records in The NBA And Simultaneously  Guaranteeing  That The team With The Worse Record By Odds Received At least A  Top Three Selection. Lottery Teams With Weaker Odds who Could Have Served As A Threat To Leap into The Top Three In Years Past Were capped At Spots 4-14.  The Massive Leaps In Position On The Boards, the Likes Of which Secured The Bulls Derrick Rose Were Not Going To Happen Again

Since The 2019  Draft lottery When The New Odds Were Implemented  Into The System, NBA Draft Selection Spots Have Results to remain Static. In 2021 The Piston Leap frogged The Rockets At Number 1, And The Magic fell out of The Top 3 . Just As With The Case Of the process, the results of Its Counteractive Are “Debatable.”  

Outside Of The Sixers and The Process. Throughout Sports History, There Are Not Quite That Many Discernible Instances Of Teams “sucking” On Purpose with The Posited Outcome Being Getting Ahead Some years Later. Even More Reasonably, There has Never Been Invodents Or Reason Enough To Believe Apathy, Inn regard to winning, Could work. The Tampa Bay Rays In 2008 went from worst to the World Series.  The rays Resiior Of endless Prospects Came To Life That Years And Again Over The decade. But the Rays Cash strap Approach To Contender ships Never Hoisted Them Over The Top. Maybe The Rays Have Been The True Process Unheralded. Nevertheless, The Success, MArginal As They Were, That Losing granted Some hasn’t Stop Some Team form Just being Bad, Nor Has It Discourage Some Writers And Spectators, And Steam Officials Alike From chasting Their teams for Winning “meaningless” Games late  In The Season.

 The Tank. It’s been the  Inspiration for Memes, Slogans  Adopted And Lettered.  Perfected By Other Small Market Franchise Have Now Been Bent Over The Crux of Change And Its Challenges Colliding To  Conversing Effect.