The dirty details of this project - what Brown does, how he does it, what results he gets - promise to ripple throughout the team, through 2017 and beyond. Although the Sixers are 6-18 and a more talented, better balanced club than the 47-199 NBA-jayvee team they were over the previous three years - in a way their season is starting only now, and Brown is well aware of what's at stake for him and the franchise. Is there any chance he could keep all three players productive and happy? And if he can't, what then? The presumption, rightly, is that general manager Bryan Colangelo would have to trade at least one of them and that keeping Embiid, given his transcendent potential, would be non-negotiable. So how are Brown and the Sixers going to know what combinations work and what combinations don't?