Home sick today, so I've been surfing the internets and I came across this Sixers piece by Ben Detrick over at Grantland.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/17189/the-philadelphia-76ers-and-the-nbas-middle-class-dream

We all obviously love the success the Sixers have had this season, but reading this begged a question to me - Can this talented-but-unspectacular, entirely-team-first approach build a contender, or should they have tanked the season they traded Iverson and perhaps the next, drafting solidly with better overall picks? We know where we are now with 'continuity', we're damn good, but not quite a contender (IMO). Could we have been better by 'tanking' '06 and/or '07?