It will never not be weird that the Sixers drafted three centres of varying levels of utility in this pace-and-space era of the modern NBA. Obviously, barring injury, Joel Embiid fits — he’s got the footwork, and the agility, and the range(!), to be a do-it-all big man today. But Nerlens Noel was traded out of town for a song, and poor Jahlil Okafor, a king in college, is, well... where is he?
The official report suggests he is ill, but we don’t know that for a fact. The Sixers may be holding him out for some other undisclosed reason.