If Philly called up right now and offered you Noel for Marcus Smart and James Young, would you do it?
I wonder what Philly does if they bottom out and land a top pick again this year (likely) where the top prospects seem to be bigs. What would they do with Karl Towns, Joel Embiid and Noel all on the same team?
There is no if ......they are running the TANK scheme full bore once again ......there are players they could get to be better.....but they ...the GM and owners won't .....
Eventually those bigs will leave , cause they can't pay them all max contracts, give them development playing time or keep them happy.
At some point like OKC .....you got more good players than you can keep......OKC choose poorly with Harden trade,
Or ....Noel and Embid both could turn out mediocre. Or be hurt all the time , so they just wasted five years of torture their fans ....and still need to start over.