Sixers would rather be good than be liked

It isn't easy to build the best basketball team in the NBA, but it's no snap to construct the worst one, either, and the 76ers, after the trade deadline last season, not only achieved that latter goal but might have fielded the least-talented team in the history of the league.

Twenty-three players saw minutes for the Sixers and, by process of elimination, that means one of them was the worst player on the worst team ever. In a season of distinction, that would be quite a distinction in itself, and there was a large pool from which to choose.

You can't blame James Nunnally or Darius Johnson-Odom or Jarvis Varnado or Eric Maynor for the circumstance in which they found themselves, but when you're riding the bench for the 2013-14 Philadelphia 76ers, it might be time to contemplate a career change.

Or consider the season of Lorenzo Brown, a guard who was sent to the D-League Delaware 87ers and then brought back six times between Dec. 26 and Feb. 5 before being cut in March. That much time on I-95 gives a man a lot of time to think. For his part, Brown thought he might prefer Italy and just signed with Reyer Venezia, which will be attempting to win its first title since 1943. At least if he gets sent to the Italian D-League, it will be by boat this time.

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