" order_by="sortorder" order_direction="ASC" returns="included" maximum_entity_count="500"]   - by Adesina O. Koiki A Lot of Sports Talk editor-in-chief Follow @Koiki_Sport Follow @ALOST_Official   WASHINGTON — Despite building itself up to becoming one of the leviathans of the Eastern Conference over the past couple of years, the Philadelphia 76ers' struggles against one of