Five Ways Joel Embiid Has Received Support From the Sixers This Offseason.

For the Philadelphia 76ers, this offseason has been nothing out of the ordinary. Many fans were afraid that Sixers ownership would not be willing to go to the necessary lengths to significantly improve the team’s future outlook after the team was systematically dismantled on the court in the Orlando bubble via four straight losses to the Boston Celtics. Many believed that head coach Brett Brown would undoubtedly be fired. That was the only significant change that appeared inevitable during the postseason, given that the gregarious clipboard bearer had obviously spent one season too long in Philadelphia. Thus, a new coach would take over; potential candidates include Ty Lue, Mike D’Antoni, and Billy Donovan.

Supporters were unsure. For an extended period, Josh Harris and his associates had merely attempted to rectify their errors by rearranging certain aspects of the team’s executive hierarchy, instead of undertaking the challenging (albeit evident) actions of dismissing team officials with subpar performance histories and replacing them with an executive group that they would ultimately inherit complete personnel authority. Like Adam Sandler in Big Daddy, the Sixers’ owners cleaned up their spilled milk for years, covering it with a newspaper in the hopes that no one would notice.