Going into the 2016 NBA draft lottery, the Philadelphia 76ers had the right to swap picks with the Sacramento Kings if they chose to. This was a provision added to a trade between the teams last summer.

In what was essentially a salary cap dump for the Kings, the Sixers gained this small piece of leverage that could be utilized should Sacramento have finished worse than them, or gotten luckier in the lottery.

Instead, Philly had the worst record in the NBA and ended up winning the lottery on Tuesday night, giving the franchise the number one overall pick.

At that point, the Kings did their best to get the 76ers to utilize those swapping rights.

The Sixers came back with the perfect response, just doing their best to lay low.

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Going into the lottery, Philadelphia had a 25 percent chance of winning it, the best odds in the NBA since they were the league's worst team (hooray for parity). The Kings had a much more minuscule chance at just 1.9 percent.

If Sacramento had actually won the lottery, that trade provision from last year would've gone down as one of the biggest steals in NBA history for the Sixers, and one of the biggest fails for the Kings.