We are 12-7 and undefeated at home, against a schedule that’s turned out to be much tougher than anyone expected. We have Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons and Jimmy Butler. We have J.J. and T.J. We have two first-rounders still from last June, one who looks like he’s gonna be a useful (and cheap!) contributor for a long time and one who should have as high an upside an anyone once he’s medically cleared to leave his iron lung. We have all our own draft picks, as well as that 2021 Miami pick, which is looking spicier by the day. We have enough cap space to offer Butler his own private island in the offseason and still be major players in free agency. If Markelle Fultz decides to donate his body to science today, we are still so friggin’ fine, you have to say it like foine, ‘90s-style.

So yeah. No more Fultz talk. It doesn’t help, and it’s ultimately not that important. If he does come back and starts playing again and we need to discuss his effect on the Sixers in strictly on-court basketball terms, that’s fine -- let’s just refer to him exclusively as The Backup Point Guard while doing so. ‘Coz that’s what he is right now: a backup point guard. Do you see Raptors fans taking 45-minute cold showers so they can properly fret over the progress of Delon Wright? Of course not; they have more important things to worry about. So do we.

Maybe someday, Markelle Fultz will once again establish himself as a consequential part of the Sixers’ future. And when the calendar turns to 2019, if he’s still around, we can revisit this topic and determine if it’s worth actually talking about him again. But until then, let’s actually enjoy the team that we have, the team that we’ve waited 15 years for -- maybe 35 years for some of us -- rather than spending all our time trying to get inside the head and/or shoulder blade of the guy playing 18 minutes a night off the bench. Post-Colangelo/91, we’ve become so enamored with our own detective work -- understandably -- that we think we can solve everything. But some mysteries are too big even for Sixers Twitter. This one’s not for us to figure out. Let’s let Fultz find his own way back.