In a certain sense, Malone's departure is not all bad, his departure gave Barkley room to grow to a certain extent, in the 1986-1987 season, Barkley officially opened the crazy performance mode in the NBA, he used his huge and elastic sexy big butt, arched the league crying dad and shouting mother, crying bitterly!

On November 4, 1986, the 76ers and the Pacers fought in double overtime, and Barkley fought hard for 53 minutes, scoring 34 points, 10 rebounds, 14 assists, 2 steals and 4 blocks on 15-of-20 shooting, leading the 76ers to retreat! On November 28, the 76ers played against the Trail Blazers, Barkley scored 31 points, 21 rebounds and 7 blocks on 11-of-18 shooting from the field, making the 20+ of the four Trail Blazers players go to waste! This is just the beginning, and over the course of the season, Duke Charles has contributed eight games in 20+20! 30+20 matches contributed 3 games! There are also five triple-doubles! In the end, his stats were fixed at 23 points, 14.6 rebounds, 4.9 assists per game, and the shooting rate was as high as 59.4%! The rebounding champion of the season, he was selected as an All-Star for the first time in his career, and after that, he did not miss for eleven years (misses due to injury do not count)!

The 76ers made the playoffs again, and the opponent was still the bitter Milwaukee Bucks, and after five games, the 76ers lost and were sent home by the Bucks in the playoffs for the second year in a row.

As early as before the start of the 1986-1987 season, Julius 61 Irving announced his retirement, and Irving at that time enjoyed the general support of Kobe Bryant now, and every time he went to a stadium, he turned the away into an away game, and everyone paid tribute to Irving's great career.

Currently, Irving ranks second in team history with 18,364 points for the 76ers, fourth in team history with 5,601 rebounds and 3,224 assists, third in team history with 1,508 steals, and first in team history with 1,293 blocks, and second in team history with 836 appearances for the 76ers, first with Morris Cheeks who has played 853 games.

Although Barkley once again played an impressive performance, averaging 28.3 points and 11.9 rebounds per game, the team still missed the playoffs for the first time in 14 years, with Morris Cheeks averaging 13.7 points, 3.2 rebounds, 8.0 assists and 2.1 steals per game, and Mike Germinski, a highly-expected center brought in from the New Jersey Nets, averaged 16.9 points and 10.0 rebounds per game.

In the 1988-1989 season, the 76ers focused on strengthening the outside line, trading from the rookie conference to the No. 6 rookie in the first round, Jose Hawkins, and then trading Ron Anderson from the Indiana Pacers, and they also signed small guard Scott Brooks, yes, it is the current head coach of the Thunder, don't look at his round belly now, he was like a chick back then, thin, 180 cm tall and weighed only 75 kilograms, Such physical conditions are destined to be a lifelong role player, and it must be said that it is a miracle that Brooks can play in the league for ten years.

The two newly introduced outside players gave Barkley and Germinsky great help to the inside, Anderson averaged 16.2 points per game and shot 49.2% from the field throughout the season, Hawkins averaged 15.1% per game and shot 45.5% from the field, the team made the playoffs, but encountered the powerful New York Knicks, five games down, the Knicks sent the 76ers home 3:0, only three players in the 76ers played well, Barkley averaged 27 points per game, 11.7 rebounds, 5.3 assists, shooting 64.4%, Ron Anderson, averaging 20.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game, shooting 56.9%, and the third is Morris Cheeks, averaging 17.7 points, 13.0 assists and 2.3 steals per game, shooting more than 50% Everyone else has played a lackluster role, especially Hawkins, who averaged 24 minutes per game. He had just 2.7 points, 1.7 rebounds and 1.3 assists while shooting 12.5 percent from the field......

Next season, the 76ers paid for the Spurs' outside shooter John Dawkins for this for which they paid for the excellent defensive ability of Morris Cheeks, Cheeks left the Philadelphia 76ers for eleven years, and currently Cheeks scored 10,429 points for the 76ers to rank sixth in team history, 6,212 assists, 1,942 steals, and 853 appearances are the first in team history, four All-Stars, four first-team selections, the team retired his No. 13 jersey in recognition of Cheeks' contributions, This person later went to the Spurs, Knicks, Hawks, and finally retired from the Nets, after retiring, Cheeks transformed behind the scenes, served as the head coach of the Trail Blazers, 76ers and Pistons, and in 2005, when he coached the 76ers, because of the tense relationship with Iverson, which eventually led to Iverson leaving Denver.

Dawkins can make 76ers management pay Cheeks, which shows that he is not mediocre, he can average 14.3 points and 7.4 assists per game in 81 games, shooting 48.9% from the field, Hawkins, who did not play well last year, is ashamed, averaging 18.5 points per game and hitting a three-pointer per game with a 42% three-point shooting rate. Team leader Barkley is still the league's big "BUG" averaging 25.2 points and 11.5 rebounds per game, the 76ers have an excellent record of 53 wins and 29 losses, and in the first round of the playoffs against the Cleveland Cavaliers, the 76ers advanced 3:2, Hawkins played a phenomenal game, shooting 51% from the field and averaging 27.2 points per game! At this time, the 76ers dare not say that they are a championship-level team, at least a Finals-level team, but unfortunately, the 76ers and Barkley were born at the wrong time, and at that time, Jordan's Bulls began to rise!

In the second round of the playoffs, the 76ers met the Chicago Bulls in a narrow way, and in the first game, although Barkley scored 30 points and 20 rebounds, the final victory was still taken away by Michael Jordan, who scored 39 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists, 5 steals and 2 blocks! And Jordan also suppressed Hawkins, allowing the latter to score just 11 points on 3-of-13 shooting.

In the second game, Hawkins quickly adjusted his state, scoring 23 points and 8 rebounds on 7-of-14 shooting, John Dawkins also added 18 points and 13 assists, and Barkley had 16 points and 19 rebounds, but the final victory still did not belong to the 76ers, and Jordan once again bagged the victory with a 45-point scoring feast!

If the third game is also lost, it means that in the best-of-three series at that time, Barkley and his 76ers will be swept out by the Bulls, so in the third game, the 76ers united and played 120% energy Barkley once again burst the Bulls' interior line, scoring 34 points, 20 rebounds and 8 assists, Hawkins shot down 27 points, Dawkins added 16 points, and Ron Anderson's 17 points, the Bulls' Jordan scored 49 points in the whole game, and the shooting percentage was higher than the previous game, But this victory did not belong to the Bulls, the 76ers 118-112 Bulls, the 76ers won the only win of the series.

In the fourth game, Jordan gave a crazy performance of scoring more than 40 points for the third consecutive game, he scored 45 points and handed out 11 assists on 16-of-31 shooting, and the 76ers were still unable to resist Jordan's powerful firepower despite Hawkins, Barkley and Germinsky all scoring 20+, which made the players feel frustrated, and in the fifth game, the 76ers collapsed and lost to the Bulls 99-117

Jordan "only" scored 37 points, 9 rebounds, 8 assists and 6 steals, Pippen came off the bench to score 29 points on 13-of-17 shooting, and the 76ers only Ron Anderson scored more than 20 points, Barkley only had 17 points and 13 rebounds, and Hawkins only scored 11 points.

The 76ers lost to Jordan's Bulls 1:4, at that time, no one thought that this was just the beginning, and in the playoffs the following year, Barkley's 76ers hated Jordan's Bulls again in the same way and with the same result!

At that time, the 76ers added two big players, one is Almon Aguilie, who defected from the Charlotte Hornets, for which the team paid Germinsky, and the other is the tallest Manute Ball in NBA history, although Aguilie did not perform well due to injuries at the beginning of the season, but as the game deepened, the star who almost cut an average of 20+10 per game last year gradually found the feeling of the game, The final season data is fixed at an average of 15.0 points and 7.3 rebounds per game, Bol, as a substitute for Barkley and Aguilie, also plays a very big role on the team's defensive end, averaging 4.3 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game.

In the first game, the 76ers lost to the Bulls 92-105, Barkley scored 34 points and 11 rebounds on 10-of-13 shooting, but for the rest, the top scorer was backup point guard Andrew Turner, who scored 11 points and shot 2-of-9, while the Bulls' Jordan scored 29 points on 8-of-15 shooting, and Pippen scored 24 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists on 11-of-16 shooting.

In the second game, the 76ers still did not win the final victory, and the trend of the game has been pressed by the Bulls, although Jose Hawkins shot a game-high 30 points, Aguilie scored 22 points, and Barkley scored 20 points, but the three 20+ still did not take away a victory on the Bulls! Jordan and Pippen combined for 52 points, 19 rebounds and 15 assists!

The third game became the "blessing day" of the 76ers, the 76ers won the third game last year, and the 76ers still won the third game this year, but the process was much more difficult than last year! Jordan exploded in this game, scoring 46 points on 20-of-34 shooting! But the 76ers managed to block Pippen, allowing the latter to shoot just 9 of 23, which became the key to the team's 99-97 victory, with Hawkins scoring 29 points, Aguilie 25 points and 11 rebounds, and Barkley 19 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists.

But the good times didn't last long, in the fourth game between the two sides, the 76ers were pressed to the ground by the Bulls and beaten wildly, Jordan, Pippen, and Grant were both 20+, while the 76ers only had Barkley 11 of 15 shots and scored 25 points, 14 rebounds and 6 assists, and the other people's performance was miserable, and the team lost again 85:106!

In the last game, the 76ers were beaten at the beginning, and then they were beaten again, and finally gained the upper hand in the end, and they didn't come up in one breath and lay on the ground and were beaten, 95:100, 5 points were defeated, Barkley shot 12-of-20 and scored 30 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists, Aguilie 21 points and 6 rebounds, while Bulls Jordan scored 38 points, 19 rebounds and 7 assists, Pippen 28 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, and the Bulls beat the 76ers in the playoffs 4:1 for the second consecutive year!

In the 1991-1992 season, the 76ers surprisingly only won 35 games, ranking fifth from the bottom in the East, this record made the management of the 76ers very annoyed, and the failure of one season completely negated the 76ers' plan for a great revival, and after the season ended on July 17, 1007, the 76ers made a shocking trade, they traded Barkley to the Suns! His compensation came with Jeff Hornacek, Tim Perry and Andrew Long, and in the same year's draft, the 76ers selected Clarence Witherspoon, a strong forward from the University of Southern Mississippi, with the ninth pick to fill Barkley's vacancy.