Joel Embiid is having a hysterically good season. Nerlens Noel is back playing major minutes and suddenly Chris Mullin from the midrange. TJ McConnell beat the New York Superteams on a buzzer-beater and then Embiid made his Twitter picture a side-by-side of TJ and a fan doing the same celebration. Ben Simmons seems to be not setbacking yet. Triple H is now a Sixers fan. I could go on.
Point is, for as much as the Sam Hinkie departure still pulls me down -- and it does, look into my blood-red eyes, it does -- as well as the sudden devastating dismissal of Process Logo Hollis Thompson, things are actually legitimately very good (too good?