The Philadelphia 76ers posted the NBA’s fourth-best defensive rating in the 2017-18 season, just one year after they won 28 games and had the 17th-best defense in the league. Philly only trailed the Utah Jazz, Boston Celtics, and San Antonio Spurs in that category.
The Sixers retained all of their best defensive players and added a few more athletic players who could contribute at that end of the floor, so their already impressive 2017-18 defensive rating of 105.77 could skyrocket in 2018-19.
Robert Covington and Joel Embiid anchor Coach Brown’s defense, and they do a great job of it.