For the 2009 offseason, the Sixers drafted UCLA point guard Jrue Holiday with the 17th pick.

Toney was drafted by the Sixers out of Southwestern Louisiana ( now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette ) with the eighth pick of the 1980 NBA Draft.

The Sixers then used their amnesty clause on Elton Brand, traded for Dorell Wright, and signed Nick Young, Kwame Brown, Royal Ivey, and re-signed Spencer Hawes.

While incarcerated Larry Hoover helped form the Folks Nation which added other gangs such as: Black Disciples, Gangster Disciples, Imperial Gangsters, La Raza, Spanish Cobras, Latin Eagles, Maniac Latin Disciples, Simon City Royals, Spanish Gangster Disciples, Two Sixers, Young Latino Organization Disciples, Young Latino Organization Cobras, Black King Cobras, and International Posse.

Sixers traded the rights to Ricky Sanchez on March 15, 2012 for Memphis Grizzlies forward Sam Young.

The Finals were almost anticlimactic, with the Sixers ousting the Warriors in six games to give them their second NBA Championship.

In the 1967 – 68 season, with a new home court in the form of The Spectrum to defend their championship, once again the 76ers made it back to the NBA Playoffs and in the rematch of the previous year's semifinals, the 76ers held a 3 – 1 series lead over the Celtics, before the Celtics staged a dramatic come back to beat the Sixers in seven games.

Moe's tenure lasted just 56 games, with the Sixers posting a 19 – 37 record.

Questions remained, but with the first pick, the Sixers found their " Answer ": Allen Iverson.

Because of a seemingly meaningless loss to the lowly Chicago Bulls in the regular season finale ( both the Sixers and the Lakers finished with identical 56 – 26 records, but Los Angeles was awarded a higher seed based on tiebreakers ), the 76ers had to open a series on the road for the first time in the 2001 playoffs.

On December 4, 2007, the Sixers fired Billy King and replaced him with Nets GM Ed Stefanski.

With Iguodala, the Sixers clinched a playoff berth with a win over the Atlanta Hawks on April 4, 2008.

Even with this elimination, many fans considered this to be a successful season, considering that the Sixers were 12 games under. 500 in early February and went on to have a run that led them to the playoffs and a 40 – 42 record.

The Sixers started the year with an uninspiring 9 – 14 record before firing head coach Maurice Cheeks on December 13.

Brand's first season with the Sixers ended early with a right shoulder injury that required surgery.

Despite the loss of Brand, the Sixers earned a playoff berth with a 95-90 win against the Detroit Pistons on April 4, 2009, at home.

The Sixers started the season with an uninspiring 3 – 13 mark, but started turning things around, going 37-23 to go on to a 40-36 record, but a depressing 1-5 finish doomed them to a 7th seed in the playoffs with a 41-41 record.

The Sixers had their best start since the 2000-01 season with a 20-9 record start, battling for the Eastern Conference's best record and taking a firm division lead.

The Sixers would once again face criticism for their lack of a true scorer, as they were not able to keep pace with the Celtics ' scoring.

From 1991 – 94, the Sixers followed other teams in designing more graphic-laden uniforms by featuring a streaking blue splash with tricolored stars heading up to the word ' SIXERS ' in Helvetica and in either red ( home ) or white ( away ).

The Hawks traded Mutombo to the Eastern Conference-leading Philadelphia 76ers in February 2001 for their injured center Theo Ratliff, as the Sixers needed a replacement stellar big man to compete with Western Conference powers Tim Duncan or Shaquille O ' Neal, should they reach the finals.

A free-agent, he re-signed with the Sixers after the season.

Early in the 1997 – 98 season, the Sixers traded Jerry Stackhouse, who had been the third overall pick in the 1995 NBA Draft, to the Detroit Pistons.

Collins played for the Sixers for his entire NBA career after being the first overall pick in the 1973 draft, and had previously coached the Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, and the Washington Wizards.

Then the Sixers sent Caldwell Jones and a first-round pick to the Houston Rockets in exchange for Moses Malone.

The Sixers also traded power forward Reggie Evans to the Toronto Raptors for a three-point specialist, small forward Jason Kapono, who had won back-to-back three-point shootouts in 2007 and 2008.

After the 1970-1971 season, Monroe's agent Larry Fleischer told the Bullets of Monroe's wishes to be traded to the Lakers, Bulls or Sixers.

The 76ers valiantly competed, but because of the 1-5 stretch, the Sixers had to face the heavily-favored Miami Heat in the first round, and ultimately fell to them in five games.

Some hikers who enjoy the Adirondack Mountains make an effort to climb all of the original 46 peaks ( many go on to climb MacNaughton as well ), and there is a Forty Sixers club for those who have successfully reached each of these summits.

Charles Barkley played for the Sixers from 1984 to 1992.

Pat Croce, a former trainer for the Flyers and Sixers, took over as president.

Although they lost the series, Doug Collins was praised for turning around a lottery team in his first season, as well as winning a playoff game when many pundits predicted that the Sixers would be swept.

The Sixers will continue to play their home games at the Wells Fargo Center for the foreseeable future.

The Sixers however would finish the season 15-22, giving them a 35-31 record for the year.

A famous TV commercial for Sixers season tickets during the 1977 – 78 off-season summed up Erving's desire to win an NBA Title.

It took a few years for the Sixers franchise to build around Erving.

Finally, for the 1982 – 83 season, the Sixers obtained the missing element to combat their weakness at their center position, Moses Malone.

A raw talent who needed time to develop, Dawkins languished on the Sixers ’ bench for his first two seasons.

The move was made in part to clear space for Dawkins on the Sixers ’ front line, which also included 6-foot-11 Caldwell Jones.

Combined, the two posted 44. 2 points per game for the Sixers.

" Scheinfeld also said that a seat in the city's first superbox initially cost $ 1, 000 a year: " For every Flyers game, Sixers game, circus, you name it, you got 250 events for $ 1, 000.