TELL ME if this sounds familiar - the Sixers are waiting on the results of the NBA draft lottery, which will be a seminal moment in their rebuilding process.
That was the stance going into the lotteries in 2014 and 2015.
Losing big to get the highest pick possible trumped any other element of team-building for the Sixers over the past three seasons.
Unfortunately, the wash, rinse, repeat cycle of pingpong ball collecting didn't clean the dirty laundry nearly enough the first two times around.
After winning 19 games to finish with the second-worst record in the league, the Sixers were hoping to jump the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2014 lottery and claim the rights to Kansas freshman swingman Andrew Wiggins, who at the time was being unfairly compared to LeBron James.