Thirteen games. That’s how long we got with what we hoped this summer would eventually become the most storied chapter in Process history, if not for the entire Philadelphia 76ers franchise: The No New Friends Sixers.

Spurned in free agency and underwhelmed on the trade market, the NNFSes were going to take the league by storm all by their lonesome. They were going to be a year better, a year wiser, a year closer than the team that closed the previous regular season by going 16-0 and hadn’t lost at the Wells Fargo Center since Old Man Knees was in short pants. They even had a recently christened No New Friends GM to steward them through this part of the Process. If you weren’t already on The Shirt, you weren’t anywhere at all. It was going to be fun. It was going to be easy. It was going to make Our Once and Always Dark Lord Sam Hinkie weep with pride.

As you may have heard by now -- and boy, to see your face when they announce the starting lineups tonight in Orlando if not -- that era of Sixers basketball came to a grinding halt this Saturday, with the trade of Dario Saric and Robert Covington for disgruntled Minnesota Timberwolves wing and ‘90s Comedy NBA Star Before He Learns How to Pass and Love, Jimmy Butler. Outside of handing the keys to the WFC over to LeBron, it’s hard to imagine a less NNF move than trading Dario and Cov -- two of the most venerated Process apostles -- for Butler, a player guaranteed to disrupt this core in just about every way imaginable. He’s as much a New Friend as if Michael Richards started living on the Central Perk couch in Season Ten.