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When a franchise enters the draft, most of the time, they draft the best available player, regardless of position. There are exceptions to this rule and that exception happens more often with teams that are in contention as they have specific needs that they can’t address due to salary cap restrictions.
The Philadelphia 76ers would fit in that category as they have three players on max contracts on their cap with Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons, and Tobias Harris. The franchise needs to upgrade the depth at both power forward and center positions with the poor overall play of Mike Scott and Dwight Howard’s poor play in the postseason.