https://www.theringer.com/2020/11/19/21574756/nba-draft-winners-and-losers 
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Winner: Philadelphia 76ers
Three big issues plagued the Sixers during their disappointing 2019-20 season: an offense-throttling logjam created by the ill-fated Joel Embiid–Ben Simmons–Al Horford triptych; an almost total absence of guards who could handle the ball, run a pick-and-roll, break down a defense off the dribble, and put some pressure on the rim; and an overall lack of viable perimeter shooting. In his first big night out after taking the reins as Philly’s new president of basketball operations, Daryl Morey set about addressing all three.
First, Morey did the heavy lifting, engaging with old pal Sam Presti and the rambunctiously rebuilding Thunder on a deal to jettison Horford. For the cost of a top-six-protected 2025 first-round pick (with declining protections in future years), Wednesday’s 34th overall pick, and the rights to Vasilije Micic, one of the better guards in Europe, Philly offloaded the final three years and $69 million still guaranteed on Horford’s contract. In return, the Sixers landed Danny Green, a 6-foot-6 3-and-D veteran with scads of championship experience fresh off a title run with the Lakers (and a brief stopover in Oklahoma following the Dennis Schröder deal). They also added Terrance Ferguson, a somewhat stalled prospect in Presti’s preferred draft mold (read: super athletic, long-limbed, jump shot that’s never quite panned out) who nonetheless helps bolster Philly’s wing depth and better balances a roster that was too thick in the middle and too thin everywhere else.
The draft board broke Philly’s way too, with a run on bigs and wings in the middle of the first round that left Tyrese Maxey—a feisty and tenacious scorer and point-of-attack defender who averaged 14 points per game as a freshman at Kentucky—in their laps. Maxey didn’t shoot the lights out in Lexington, making just 29.2 percent of his long balls, but his stronger free throw numbers (83.3 percent) show a smooth stroke, and his aggressiveness in getting into the paint and finishing in traffic will be a welcome addition to a Philly offense yearning for more playmaking and creation.
Then, as the first round bled into the second, Morey packaged shooting guard Josh Richardson—a big piece of the return from last summer’s Jimmy Butler sign-and-trade, but never quite a snug fit in Philly—along with the 36th pick and sent them to the Mavericks in exchange for Seth Curry, a certified spot-up sniper (44.3 percent shooting from beyond the arc for his career) on an absolute steal of a contract that will pay him just $24.5 million over the next three years. (He’s also Doc Rivers’s son-in-law, for what that’s worth.) You might recall that when the Sixers had JJ Redick’s elite floor-spacing to play off of and open the floor for Embiid and Simmons, they won 50-plus games in consecutive seasons, posting top-10 offenses in each on the strength of some of the best starting lineups in the league. That seems notable—as does the second-round addition of Isaiah Joe, a 6-foot-5 guard who jacked a wild 9.1 triple tries in 32.7 minutes per game over two seasons at Arkansas, drilling 37.8 percent of them. It appears there is a trend here.
There’s still more work to be done—more shooters to add, more space to create for Embiid and Simmons, more weapons to find for Doc to deploy. But in just a few hours, Morey went a long way toward not only balancing the roster, but making it make more sense around his two 26-and-under studs and building around his best pieces rather than trading them away on general principle. That constitutes a pretty good start to the new era, I think.