How a Mike Muscala 3-pointer domino effect got LeBron James to the 76ers

A Mike Muscala 3-pointer is essentially the reason the Philadelphia 76ers got to draft Tyrese Maxey.Maxey is one of the main reasons the 76ers got to sign LeBron James on Friday.So, if you trace the thread all the way through, a Muscala 3 led the Sixers to James.It started in the NBA Bubble during the COVID-altered 2020 season. MORE: The Process culminates with LeBron JamesThe Thunder owed their 2020 first-round pick to the 76ers as part of the 2016 Jerami Grant trade. The pick was top-20 protected, but when Muscala hit a game-winning 3 with five seconds left to beat the Miami Heat in the Bubble, it knocked the pick out of its top-20 protection status.The 76ers got to keep the pick that year, and they used it on Maxey.That resulted, more or less, in the momentum that eventually led to the