If not for the reactionary nature of Philadelphia sports fans and the national media's thirst to declare winners and losers four months into NBA careers, maybe every Sixers-Knicks game wouldn't be a referendum on draft success. But come on, of course it is.
Every Sixers fan - Porzingis draftniks/superfans and xenophobes alike - watches Knicks games and winces with every Kristaps 25-footer. The vicious tip-slamming doesn't do any favors. But I'm here, as one of Okafor's more staunch critics among our Sixers Twitter commentators, to plead to end the reactionary way fans watch the Sixers this season.