Well that’s what happens when you tell the universe your plans.
After Joel Embiid was sidelined for a significant portion of the 2023-24 season, with the Sixers going 11-18 in games he missed, he set out the following summer to recruit Andre Drummond to back him up. The hope was that Drummond would be able to scale up to starter minutes should Embiid be unavailable for an extended period of time.
It even seemed like they had built in some of those games as part of a plan to manage Embiid through the season.