Back in February of 2015, the Sixers were part of a three-team trade that included Philadelphia trading a former lottery pick and recent Rookie of the Year, and only returning a first-round Lakers draft pick with protections.
Four drafts later, and the Sixers might finally receive that valuable draft pick in 2018. Maybe. It will help if the Lakers keep losing.
In that 2015 trade deadline deal the Sixers sent Michael Carter-Williams -- the aforementioned Rookie of the Year -- to Milwaukee, Brandon Knight went from the Bucks to the Suns and a protected first-round Lakers draft pick went to Philadelphia.