Chapter 19: The Road to Rottenness

On August 11, 2012, the deal for Dwight Howard, the league's No. 1 center, was finally settled, Howard finally joined the Los Angeles Lakers as he wished, teamed up with Kobe, and looked forward to a better era, which was originally a trade between the Magic and the Lakers, and did not want the 76ers to step in because they wanted to get the Lakers' super center, Andrew Bynum.

In order to get Bynum, the 76ers can be said to have invested blood, paid team leader Andre Iguodala and Nikola Ucevic, a potential interior who performed well last season, and did not hesitate to swallow Jason Richardson's 4-year rotten contract worth $20 million, so the question is, what kind of magic does this Bynum have that makes the 76ers' management so desperate?

Prior to this season, Bynum had played for the Lakers for seven full seasons, and last season Bynum had a big explosion, averaging 18.7 points, 11.8 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game, shooting 55.8% from the field! The efficiency value is as high as 23.00! He once grabbed an astonishing 30 rebounds, sent 10 blocks in the playoffs to tie the likes of Mark Eaton and Olajuwon, and became the first Lakers player after Elvin Johnson to score a triple-double in the playoffs, which allowed him to become an All-Star starting center in the West, a super center is justifiable, and more importantly, Bynum, who entered the league at the age of 19, is only 26 years old this year, and even has potential to be tapped!

A player with such ability makes the management of the 76ers salivate, but they forget one thing, that is IQ, or emotional intelligence, Bynum can be said to have a great change in temperament after joining the 76ers, it can also be said that after Bynum left Kobe's discipline, he became not the same Bynum as before, his energy shifted from basketball to playing with various hairstyles cut and washed, and his head became more and more abnormal, his knee originally suffered some minor injuries, the matter was not big, and it was okay to recuperate for two or three weeks, But Bynum actually injured his knee in the process of bowling, aggravating the condition, and then had to undergo surgery, season reimbursement, Bynum took a salary of $16.89 million from the management of the 76ers throughout the season, but did not play a game for the 76ers, this is not over, this year is Bynum's contract year, a normal player, a self-motivated player, a 26-year-old player who works hard in the NBA, if he wants to increase the bargaining chips in the next contract, he will definitely train hard, but Bynum no, during his recuperation from injury, there were reports that he did not treat his high school alumni well, patronized nightclubs, or pornographic nightclubs, played basketball shooting machines, and even slept with the assistant coach's wife, which made the management of the 76ers unbearable and did not renew Bynum's contract next season, which means that Philadelphia lost Iguodala and Ucevic for nothing, but did not get a little return......

Bynum's trade can also be said to be a fuse, Tony DeLeo, who has been in the 76ers for 22 years until the general manager position, was directly laid off because of this deal, Bynum is an eternal stain on his life, and Sam Xin, the former vice president of basketball operations of the Rockets, is the general manager of the 76ers.

Although the 76ers left Iguodala and Ucevic, the 76ers in the 2012-2013 season still performed very well, and every player standing on the court played their best energy, and finally the 76ers finished ninth in the East with 34 wins and 48 losses, and fell outside the door of the playoffs at the last minute, and the main point guard Jrue Holiday became the temporary leader of the team. In 78 games, he averaged 17.7 points, 4.2 rebounds, 8.0 assists and 1.6 steals per game, which also made him selected for the bench in this season's All-Star Game, Thaddeus Young was promoted to the starting lineup this season, averaging 14.8 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, Evan Turner averaged 13.3 points, 6.3 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game, all-round, but lacking mastery, it is worth noting that this season the 76ers have signed Jrue Holiday brother, Justin Holiday, but his performance is obviously not as good as the 76ers management, averaging 4.7 points per game in 9 games.

After the end of the season, head coach Doug Collins announced his resignation, Spurs assistant coach Wright Brown took over, becoming the 24th head coach in team history, general manager Xinki came to power, Xinki used to be Morey's assistant, but the two of them are completely two styles in terms of building the team, Morey is a heavy money to dig into other people's thighs, and then make small repairs in the draft, and Xinki is not, he put all the team's hopes on the young talent in the draft, so, since Xinki came to power, The 76ers went from being a decent team to a crazy team that didn't even want a face for draft picks!

On June 27, 2013, Philadelphia selected point guard Michael Carter Williams from Syracuse with the 11th pick in the first round of the NBA Draft, and on July 13, the 76ers and the New Orleans Pelicans officially reached a deal, and the 76ers sent Jrue Holiday in exchange for the signing rights of No. 6 rookie No. 6 in 2013 No. 6 Noel, Noel is an interior defensive big man who has grown into Mutombo's second, but coincidentally, after Noel was signed by the 76ers, because of a knee injury, Season Reimbursement ......

On August 23, 2013, the 76ers traded Tony Rotten from the Grizzlies with a future second-round pick.

On October 31, 2013, the 76ers hosted the Miami Heat, McCarvey shot 6 of 10 three-pointers and 4 of 6, scored 22 points, 12 assists, 9 steals and 7 rebounds, and only had one turnover. It has also been called the greatest debut in NBA history by many celebrities! Not only that, three days later, the 76ers faced the Bulls at home, McCarvey faced MVP favorite Derrick Rose with 26 points, 10 assists, 4 rebounds and 3 steals, and led the team to win the final victory in the final moments of the game after falling behind all over the court! In the end, McCarvey averaged 16.7 points, 6.2 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 1.9 steals per game throughout the season, and everything was perfect except for the low shooting percentage and high turnovers, which are usually the problems of rookies, and finally McCarvey won the final Rookie of the Year trophy without surprise.

In addition to McCarvey, there is another outside player, Tony Rotten, his value was originally equivalent to a second-round pick, who knew that he played at the level of a lottery rookie, on November 14, the 76ers played against the Rockets, McCarvey was suspended due to injury, Rotten ushered in the first start of his career, and finally he became the first player in NBA history to cut a triple-double on his first start, 18 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, He averaged 13.0 points, 3.2 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.1 steals per game throughout the season, and he only played 24 minutes.

In addition to McCarvey and Rotten, the 76ers' two big brothers, Thaddeus Young and Evan Turner, are tepid performances, the former averages 17.9 points and 6.0 rebounds per game, the latter averages 17.4 points, 6.0 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game, the 76ers have only 19 wins this season, "losing" is the team's main theme throughout the season, and McCarvey's "Best Rookie" trophy is the 76ers' biggest consolation.

In the 2014 draft, the frustrated 76ers management selected Jon Funny from Cameron with the third pick in the first round, no, Jon, Embiid, the reason why the word madness is used is because Embiid is amazing talent, but he was reimbursed for the injury season before the draft, so he will not play even a minute this season, the 76ers use this way to tell everyone that they will continue to play in the next season, but what people didn't expect is that The 76ers are so completely rotten!

Just after the draft, the 76ers completed a three-way trade with the Timberwolves and the Cavaliers, and the 76ers sent Thaddeus Young to the Timberwolves to get a 2015 first-round draft pick from the Heat, tough forward Luke Bamot, and Alex Sherved, who knows everything and is not proficient in anything. After playing just 17 games with the 76ers, Sherved was sent to the Rockets to get a protected second-round pick and interior defensive center Ronnie Turiaf, who was then cut by the team.

Evan Turner, another decorated player last season, was also sold by the team, before the trade deadline, the 76ers completed a trade with the Pacers, Turner was sent to the Pacers, and the Pacers sent Danny Granger and a second-round pick for next year, Granger was obviously unwilling to play on such a fishy team, so his request for a buyout was approved, and he did not play a game for the 76ers, and the 76ers only got one second-round pick in this deal. The day before the deal, the 76ers completed another deal with the Rockets, sending this year's rookie KJ Daniels, a well-performing backup guard Isaiah Kanan and a 2015 second-round pick, and in November, the 76ers signed guard Robert Covington, who was cut by the Rockets, to a four-year, $4 million contract, who seized the opportunity and quickly became an indispensable player for the 76ers.

In February 2015, the 76ers made another trade that shocked the league, selling last season's rookie of the year, McCarvey, to the Bucks in exchange for a top-three protected first-round pick from the Lakers (the Lakers later retained that pick and drafted D'Anquino Russell in the 2015 draft, which was forced to be extended until 2016). This deal shocked the whole league, because this is the second year of McCarvey, there is still a lot of potential, no one thought that the 76ers would be so frantic in order to mess up, do everything, of course, McCarvey was traded for his own reasons, compared with last season, this season McCarvey averaged 0.5 minutes less per game than last season, but the average points per game was 1.7 points less than last season, the shooting rate decreased by 2.5%, and the three-point shooting rate that was not high fell by 0.8% percentage points again, only 25.6%, you have to know that McCarvey has to shoot 3 three-pointers per game, The average of 6.2 rebounds per game is the same as last season, but the frontcourt rebounds are 0.4 fewer than last season, and the backcourt rebounds are 0.3 more, which means that he grabs rebounds and is not as aggressive as before, the average assists per game have risen by 0.9 times to 7.4, but the average turnovers per game have also increased by 0.7 times to 4.2 times per game, this season's performance has lost a lot compared with the surprise given by McCarvey in the first game, and it is often said that former Kings star Tyrek Evans is at the peak of his rookie season, and he will be more and more frustrated every year in the future, but I didn't expect this McCarvey to be more powerful, and his debut is the peak!

In order to fill the void of McCarvey's departure, the 76ers claimed the point guard Ismael Smith, who was cut by the Thunder, who played well in the open 76ers, plus Tony Roten, Robert Covington, Ismael Smith, Isaiah Kanan and Nolens Knoll who returned from injury, these young players have become the main vitality of the 76ers this season, obviously, Such a bunch of raw melons and eggs are not the opponents of this gang of old fritters on the field at all, and they have only won 18 games in the whole season, ranking third from the bottom in the league!

In the 2015 draft, the 76ers took the college honor-decorated Jahir Okafor with the third pick in the first round, and it is worth mentioning that he also had a distant cousin relationship with the 2004 No. 1 pick Emeka Okafor, and the 76ers traded with the Kings to trade two second-round picks they selected in the draft to the Kings in exchange for a white shooter Nick Stauskas, Karl Landry and Jason Thompson, August 20, 2015, Embiid, an entertainment star who didn't play a game last season, announced that he had surgery again, and the season was reimbursed......

In 2015, there is no doubt that the 76ers are a team dominated by young people, young, impactful, and passionate about playing, but the lack of strength makes it difficult for the 76ers to show the glory of the year, the season started 62 games, the schedule has passed two-thirds, the 76ers have only won eight games, and the road to the rotten is far away, and you will go up and down and seek!

Good luck, boys!