People talk about the Sixers tanking for 3 years, but ignore the 10 years before when they finished 11th, 7, 9, 9, 7, 6, 13, 7, 8, and 9. They were in purgatory, with no shot at a title.
Now they’re the 1 seed for the first time in 20 years. That’s why the Process made sense.