Which I, for one, am very excited about. I've already offered my support for the Do Nothing plan of action for this team, and while some part of it might be a defense mechanism in response to the disappointment of striking out with the best players available this summer, it's still mostly because the prospect of getting to watch these dudes do it again is pretty damn thrilling. The Sixers got so good so quickly near season's end, and then saw their run end so abruptly, that it feels like... maybe not quite unfinished business, but at the very least interrupted business. Bringing in a big-name star to bolster Season Two would be cool and all, but after Season One ended just as the show had really found its groove, don't you kinda wanna see how the story plays out with this cast of characters?

Especially because there's so much about these guys that we still just don't know. We don't know what Joel Embiid can do after a fully healthy offseason. We don't know how much better Dario Saric can still get after making a massive leap in production from Year One to Year Two. Of course, we don't know how useful Markelle Fultz can be with an operational jumper -- though if the unreal continual swagging out of Drew Hanlen is to be believed, we'll get to see soon enough. And we don't even know anything about Zhaire Smith, who just seems more tantalizing the longer we get to talk ourselves into him being more Russell Westbrook than K.J. McDaniels.

Besides, it's gonna be so much fun to watch these guys enjoy their We Have Arrived season. You forget sometimes that the team is already one year ahead of schedule -- last year we would've been fine staying mostly healthy and competing for the playoffs; 52 wins, home court and the second round was supposed to be more like this year's goal. Now, they're legitimate East contenders, they have two of the game's brightest young stars (one of which is already a preeminent shit-talker) and they're set to be around and competitive for a long time. They are gonna spend the season stunting on Charlotte and Detroit, and letting them know about it while they're doing it, and it is going to be so very much fun to experience.

And as long as the Sixers are halfway to full No New Friends mode with the roster -- shoutout to Sean O'Connor of Liberty Ballers for (unintentionally?) first labeling the moment -- may as well lean in and go the whole way, I say. We need a defensive-minded backup center? Let's get Amir Johnson back on the case. A stretch four to replace Ersan Ilyasova? Former Process great Luc Mbah a Moute is still on the market. Another shooter off the bench to get some Belinelli minutes? Well, Wayne Ellington is at least #FromHere, maybe we can fit him into some kind of NNF cap exception -- and if not, a certain reliable 40% shooting swingman from the thickest Process days is still looking to make his way back to the NBA from Greece. After all, if they weren't with us when The Process was bad, how can they be trusted now that things are good? (Zhaire is grandfathered in, of course, since he arrived via a Process-style trade of a Process-era pick.)