Josh Harris is happy with the direction of the Philadelphia 76ers, saying that it's "bottomed," but now everything is going up, not down. 

"Year 2 of our long-run plan that we laid out," Harris said. "We're very excited to be here. Just being here, you can feel the difference in terms of the emphasis on player development, the amount of work that's going on, the exciting new players that are running up and down the court, the strength and conditioning that is going on, the focus on nutrition. I feel we've set up the culture well. The basketball side of the house and the business side of the house [are] creating excellence from the bottom up. And we're beginning to see some of the players that we picked."

Harris believes in the vision laid out by Sam Hinkie.

"We're always in a hurry," Harris said. "My philosophy is you're only here for a certain amount of time, so you have to get busy and add value every day. But at the same time, there are no shortcuts to building excellence. It's about putting the right people in place and providing the resource and allowing them to do their job. The practice facility, we'll be starting work on that sometime around the end of the year. It will be the largest in the NBA, it will be the best, state-of-the-art practice facility in the NBA.

"It's taken a little longer, because the coach wanted input, Sam wanted input, and building something excellent takes a little while to plan. But that's a perfect example of how we're going to operate. It's hard to put a time frame on it specifically, but we are going to get better from here. Every season. We've bottomed, and now together we build. It's not going down from here; it's going up."