[2][3][4] Mahorn, who won a championship with the Detroit Pistons last year, joined Charles Barkley and Mike Gminski to form a formidable front court.
After a mediocre 18–16 start to the season, the Sixers would win twelve consecutive games, then hold a 30–18 record at the All-Star break,[9] and post an 8-game winning streak near the end of the season.
They won the Atlantic Division title compiling a 53–29 record, defeating the Boston Celtics by just one game.
[16] In the Eastern Conference First Round of the playoffs, the Sixers would win a hard-fought five game series over the Cleveland Cavaliers,[17][18][19][20] then would lose in the Eastern Conference Semi-finals to the Chicago Bulls four games to one.
[25][26][27][28][29] This was the only time in NBA history where the player with the most first-place votes for MVP did not get the award.