Then, it was Andrew Bynum. Now it’s Embiid. And while they are two very different players, the composition of both 76ers teams hinged on the health of a center who could never seem to find it.

The Sixers originally drafted Vucevic in 2011, though he did not play much for them in his lone season with the team. Philadelphia traded him in 2012 when they acquired Andrew Bynum. Bynum's ...

After that season, the Sixers made their first big move with Harris as owner in a blockbuster trade that landed the team Andrew Bynum from the Los Angeles Lakers. But that trade was a major miss.