As they prepare for a lighter week ahead – three games in the next eight days – the 9-7 Sixers are still trying to figure out who they are. As head coach Nick Nurse has frequently mentioned when asked about his rotation, there are many "moving parts" even as an identity has formed and grown.

Joel Embiid has not played in more than two weeks. Kelly Oubre Jr. will not play for another two weeks. Paul George missed the first two weeks and change of the season. Jared McCain missed the first two weeks of the season and is just now starting to look like himself. Dominick Barlow missed more than two weeks because of an elbow laceration. The parts have certainly been moving.

But not all of the circumstances have gone against the Sixers. In many ways, they have been quite fortunate in terms of un

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