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Just a few months into his tenure as the president of basketball operations of the Sixers, Daryl Morey will have to break out his most famous nerdy basketball theory. The five percent theory is when a team has a greater than a five percent chance to win the title, that team should go all out to win, no questions asked.
538 gives Philadelphia an 11% chance at winning the title while most betting sites give the team between a five to ten percent chance. Given those odds and Morey’s philosophy, expect the Sixers to be aggressive at the trade deadline.