The effort toward a title — OK, let's face it, anything near .500 — could get the breakthrough the organization needs with the No. 3 overall pick and four second-rounders in next month's NBA draft. Colangelo took over not long after, and armed with potential cornerstone players Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid, he is 13 months into a job as team president where shaping the Sixers into Eastern Conference contenders is the only suitable destination. Relaxed in his chair, overlooking three championship banners inside a state-of-the-art team complex, Colangelo realizes he has a more curious task than most team executives. Even with a championship parade under Colangelo, the group would use some sort of Venn diagram to credit — and credit only — what's known around the league as The Process . While some front office heads want to work with previous connections, Colangelo said he found a kindred spirit in "basketball DNA" with Brown and admired how he had molded a team with the characteristics of its coach; unwilling to quit even in steady defeat. NBA rookie of the year contenders Embiid and Dario Saric, along with No.