Again... and not sure why we keep having to rehash this.... hindsight is easy. I agree there was tons of injury risk... but no, it wasn't some 'given' that he was going to miss all of season 1 and over half of season 2. If he was out of the league now you'd say "it was obvious he would never play in the league". It's an easy position to take and argue after the fact. Don't be that guy.
Simmons injury still sucked at the time. Again, this isn't about how it turned out. Every injury in the league could be said to "not set the franchise back as they got a better draft pick next year". At the time, that's not the case.
No. And that's not the point anyways. The point is, the injuries to the sixers' first rounders in the last 5 years have been more frequent than any other team maybe in nba history.
Spin it all you want, but in the last 4 years, the Sixers have had 5 lottery picks. ALL FIVE of them have missed at least 35% of their first season. And now our 6th top 16 pick in a row may miss significant time. Yes, I think that is unlucky.