LONDON — Right now, the 76ers are an exciting basketball team.
What they aspire to be is an NBA championship-caliber team, because excitement alone doesn’t even guarantee a second-round berth in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Perhaps that’s why coach Brett Brown corrected a European media member who said the Sixers and Boston Celtics bring superstar power to Thursday’s NBA London game at the O2 Arena.
“We don’t yet have stars,” Brown said Wednesday before practice at CitySport. “We don’t have any championships. We don’t have any all-stars. Like, we are very much at the foundation to get to where you just brought us too quickly, in my opinion.