West NBA Rival Interested in Trading for 76ers' No 3 Draft Pick: Report originally appeared on Athlon Sports.

This edition continues to focus on the 2018 draft when Philadelphia selected Landry Shamet with the No. 26 overall pick. The Sixers were looking to continue growing the roster around their star duo of Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons, at the time, and Shamet made an impact right away.

The Eastern Conference is expected to be wide open next season, but a Sixers roster without a healthy Embiid can’t contend for a championship.

He’s mainly a top prospect because of his outside shooting, but Johnson is tricky, crafty and comfortable with turnarounds, fadeaways and step-throughs in the mid-post. We’ll see what his role winds up being in the NBA,

In a re-do of the 2020 NBA draft, the Philadelphia 76ers take Tre Jones with Tyrese Maxey already gone and off the board.

A source confirmed that the Sixers engaged the Spurs about obtaining the second pick. This comes after league executives told The Inquirer they expect the team to be involved in pre-draft trade talks.