It was the summer of the year 2000. The Sixers had just been eliminated in the second round of the playoffs by Reggie Miller and the Pacers for the second straight season. Larry Brown and Allen Iverson did not get along.
That’s why Brown and then-GM Billy King worked out a trade with the Pistons which would’ve sent the Answer to Detroit along with Matt Geiger. As we now know, Geiger refused to waive his trade kicker, the deal fell through and the rest is history.
And as we all know, history often repeats itself.