Gone was Andre Iguodala and the first post-Allen Iverson era. In was Bynum, the final throw of the dice for a young nucleus ...

The 76ers lost without Joel Embiid because of the culture they ... Holiday to New Orleans for the draft rights to a center, Nerlens Noel, who’d torn his left ACL a few months earlier.

For the second straight game, Joel Embiid was a game-time decision ... becoming the first Sixer since Nerlens Noel — and the seventh player in franchise history during the play-by-play era ...