There are many questions as NBA free agency opens, so many that one may have slipped under the radar, like the team that typically slinks from view this time of year:
Will the Philadelphia 76ers apply for an exemption, to allow them to participate this time?
After all, there's hardly ample evidence that one of the league's prouder franchises remains an active member of the league, not with the manner they have operated over the past 25 months. That's how long it has been since Sam Hinkie became the general manager and president of basketball operations, positions he'd never previously held, and began the painstaking, frustrating process that Philadelphians have been repeatedly told to trust.