The Philadelphia 76ers championship rings are a good NBA team, with the potential to be great.
After falling in the Eastern Conference semi-finals in the 2017 playoffs, they’ve once again put themselves in a position to contend in the postseason. They’re now a team with three real stars, after Jimmy Butler was traded to The City of Brotherly Love.

Still, there’s an uncomfortable reality that simmers not too far below the surface in Philadelphia. It’s a reality brought upon by their draft strategy; one that, barring Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid, has almost entirely failed. Since 2013, the 76ers have had five players drafted in the top-10 — four top-3 picks — and now need to address a Markelle Fultz induced problem that’s starting to boil over.

The cheap nba championship rings Draft was a significant part of The Process in Philadelphia, and the strategy heading into each draft since 2013, according to two 76ers executives who spoke with foxsports, was to go with “the best available player.”

That meant, in 2013, the Philadelphia 76ers championship rings for sale got the New Orleans Pelicans to draft Nerlens Noel for them at the No. 6 overall spot. The team was able to get future Rookie of the Year, Michael Carter-Williams, too, in what looked like a successful draft for the 76ers.

Then, things got interesting. That strategy of using the draft to get talent regardless of fit began to really take shape. Despite having a centre in Noel, the 76ers drafted Joel Embiid with the No. 3 overall pick in 2014. The following year, the 76ers drafted another centre: Jahlil Okafor; again, choosing to opt away from the player who’d best fit their system to draft the best available player instead.

Come the 2016 NBA Draft, and the 76ers had three centres in a league where that position was becoming less valuable, so they opted for Ben Simmons, one of the safest picks in recent memory. The following year, their trend continued: the 76ers drafted Markelle Fultz, a point guard who would battle Simmons for minutes and usage rate custom championship rings.

So, out of the five top-10 picks the 76ers drafted since 2013, just two remain in legitimate roles on the team: Simmons and Embiid.

While what could have been’s are largely unhelpful, it’s fun to imagine what things would look like had the Sixers picked for ‘fit’ instead.

Whether it’d been Jayson Tatum over Fultz in 2017, almost anyone over Jahlil Okafor in 2015 — granted, it was a terrible draft — or even found helpful young stars in later rounds; there’s a reality where this cheap Philadelphia 76ers championship rings team would be set up for a decade of NBA dominance, rather than just contention.