The holidays were not kind to the Philadelphia 76ers. After starting the season 13-9, they went just 4-10 in the month of December, dropping them below .500 and out of the playoff picture.
A handful of different factors contributed to those struggles, starting with injuries. It’s hard to have continuity when nobody’s healthy, and the Sixers — more than perhaps any other team — can atest to that. They also dealt with some poor shooting and an odd slump from Ben Simmons.
All of that snowballed into a December that had fans thinking about the lottery again, which has been commonplace over the past few seasons.