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This story is part of ESPN The Magazines Oct. 31 NBA Preview Issue. Subscribe today!Philadelphia 76ersOverall: 102 Title track: 85 Ownership: 101 Coaching: 71 Players: 93 Fan relations: 114 Affordability: 44 Stadium experience: 97 Bang for the buck: 116 Change from last year: -4But ... they trusted the process?! Third time wasnt the charm for Sam Hinkie, Philadelphias ill-fated general manager, who, after three seasons spent hoarding draft assets (and losses), resigned from his post in a blaze of 13-page-memo glory in April. As it turns out, 15 wins a season does not a happy front office -- or fan base -- make. Oh, sure, 76ers fans sent their beleaguered GM off on a wave of Thank you, Hinkie! chants after the team landed the No. 1 overall draft pick. But even the glow of Ben Simmons wasnt enough to rescue the Sixers from the Ultimate Standings gutter, where they ranked sub-90 one, two, three, four, five, SIX times. Team of the year!Whats goodThe Sixers stink, but you can see them for the bargain price of $68.54, the NBAs 12th-best rate in average cost per game! (Look, when a team has been as poor for as long as the 76ers have, any ranking in the top half of the league is ... not a bad thing.) Fans have mostly stayed home since The Tank -- Phillys overall attendance has ranked second-worst, worst and third-worst, respectively, since 2013-14 -- but those die-hards who still make their way to the Wells Fargo Center can at least do so without breaking their banks. The Sixers lone ranking that cracked the top 50 this year? Affordability.Whats badAlmost everything else. The 76ers dropped in all categories but ownership, affordability and stadium experience this year and proved egregiously unpopular when it came to fan relations and bang for the buck (third-worst in the NBA for both). Even a fiscally reasonable night out in South Philly, it seems, cant atone for the teams woeful showing on the scoreboard: Fans ranked the Sixers ability to consistently win more games than they lose as -- surprise -- worst in the NBA. The only two teams across all four sports to out-lose them? The San Diego Padres and Cleveland Browns.Whats NewThe city is running out of brotherly love for its promising, if still very young, crop of talent. It has been just three short months since the Sixers landed Simmons, their first No. 1 pick in 20 years, but the teams steepest shift in our rankings was its 20-slot tumble to No. 93 in players. That was before the news broke that yet another Sixer, this time Simmons, would miss significant time in his rookie season. The (potentially) good news? Check back in one years time. After two seasons sidelined by injury, Joel Embiid is finally set to take the court in Philadelphia, and Dario Saric will join him after making his way over from Turkey. 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The Raptors traded Rudy Gay, Quincy Acy and Aaron Gray to the Sacramento Kings on Monday, in exchange for Greivis Vasquez, John Salmons, Patrick Patterson and Chuck Hayes. Mumbai took just five overs to wipe out the 24 runs they needed to beat Railways in Mysore. They did so by 10 wickets to secure a bonus-point win, the groundwork of which was done by Tushar Deshpande, the right-arm seamer, who picked up his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.Railways, resuming on 135 for 4, were bowled out for 208. A 35-run stand between Faiz Ahmed and Ashish Yadav was the only noteworthy stand, after which the lower middle order collapsed. In their chase, Mumbai openers Ashish Herwadkar and Shreyas Iyer strolled to victory. This was Mumbais second win in four matches.Punjab defeated Uttar Pradesh by seven wickets to collect ssix points in Hyderabad on the back of opener Jiwanjot Singhs 82-ball 69.dddddddddddd They reached their 112-run target in just 28.1 overs early on the fourth day. Jiwanjots 18th first-class fifty drove Punjab, who started the day needing 51. While he was out stumped, Uday Kaul hit the winning runs with a boundary to seal the win. With two wins in five matches, Punjab are currently placed third in the pool, behind Tamil Nadu.Earlier, Tamil Nadu defeated Baroda while the Bengal-Gujarat match was called off due to smog in Delhi. ' ' '