Rod Thorn said the Sixers will choose the best available player before they look to fill a need.

"It's clear to me that if someone has more talent and has a bigger upside than someone else who might fill that need, you take the guy with the bigger upside," said Thorn. "It's very difficult to pass that up.

“Essentially, you draft for talent and you trade for need.”

Thorn sees a flat draft beyond the top-5 prospects.

"Let's take out the first five," Thorn said. "After that it's kind of like beauty being in the eye of the beholder. Someone may be drafted from 15 to 20 that could turn out to be as good as someone drafted from 6 to 14. We don't see a lot of difference."