Between 2013 and 2017, the Philadelphia 76ers won 72 total games. In just 2016, the Golden State Warriors won 73 games.
That era was the dark age of “The Process,” in which the 76ers morphed from a perennial pile of whatever to the laughing stock, punching bag, and punch line combo meal that the rest of the league feasted on annually.
Trying to actually win games became unapologetically abandoned, and the specter of LeBron James running the Eastern Conference for the next eternity-and-a-half made roadmaps to contention run directly through hell.
And thus, the culture of losing was born.