The Philadelphia 76ers were in for a rebirth after years of “trusting the process”.

Armed with a group of promising youngsters, the patience of everyone within the organization and its fans seemed to have been rewarded, until an unfortunate event happened.

In a cruel twist of fate, Ben Simmons, the one tasked to carry the Sixers back to relevance, suffered a fractured foot during practice. This was as gut-wrenching as it could be, and players, along with media personalities, around the league expressed a mixture of shock and well wishes over social media.

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