The 76ers are in an enviable position less than two weeks after the open of NBA free agency. They entered the summer hampered by the contracts of Joel Embiid and Paul George and few options other than to run it back with a team that finished seventh in the East and lost to the eventual champion New York Knicks.

Stephen Curry's pitch to LeBron James this summer is pretty simple: The Golden State Warriors play a good brand of basketball and the golf is pretty strong in the Bay Area.

“So the pitch is, we want to play good basketball, be around people that know how to play the game, and hopefully raise our floor on our competitiveness this year. “There’s good golf in the Bay. But w...