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The Sixers Are Reportedly Picking 21st in the 2020 Draft

Kevin Kinkead

By Kevin Kinkead

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Photo Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports

Here’s good news via Shams, so let’s hope he’s right:

The Sixers have Oklahoma City’s pick, which means they’ll have the 21st selection in the draft. This is the best possible scenario that could have played out when they re-acquired the pick via the Markelle Fultz/Jonathon Simmons trade.

Quick refresher:

  1. This pick was first sent to Philadelphia in the Ersan Ilyasova/Jerami Grant deal.
  2. The pick was then sent to Orlando in the trade-up for Anzejs Pasecniks
  3. It came back to Philadelphia in the Fultz trade.

The selection was top-20 protected, so landing at #21 overall means it just happened to work out perfectly. If it ended up falling within the top-20, it would have instead conveyed as a pair of future second round draft picks.

For a little more context, the last five players selected at #21 are Brandon Clarke, Grayson Allen, Terrance Ferguson, DeAndre’ Bembry, and Justin Anderson.

Kevin Kinkead
Kevin Kinkead

Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com

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