The walls of the basketball court at the 76ers practice facility on the Camden waterfront were lined with onlookers Thursday when Kentucky guard Malik Monk arrived for his private workout with the team. The Sixers had scouted Monk in college, obviously, and attended the pro day hosted by his agent, but this was their gym, their rules and their agenda.
Along one wall, head coach Brett Brown was flanked by Steve Donahue of Penn and Fran Dunphy of Temple, whom he had invited in to add their impressions. Ownership was spread across another wall in folding chairs, not far from the front office staff of Bryan Colangelo and assorted friends and associates of the organization, even including Gene Shue, an eminence grise from another era.