Chad Ford of ESPN released his latest NBA Mock Draft for 2017, and projects the Sixers to land a guard to round out the starting five and bring some roster balance to a team that already features a stacked front-court that includes Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons and Dario Saric.
In Ford's latest projection, the Sixers wind up selecting Kentucky guard Malik Monk:
A good but hardly ideal night for the Sixers.
They didn't get the Lakers' pick (though they will get it next year), and their own pick actually fell to fifth.