After reading my last post, you know where the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers are now and, just as importantly, where they’ve been to get here.

But HOW did they get from there to here?

The 76ers call it “The Process.” It’s just a fancy term for tanking. They got rid of all of their veteran players – guys who were either past their prime, or whose primes were not going to be very prime and help the team get to where it needed to go – and replaced them with young, talented players.

And how did they get those young, talented players? With the high draft picks they earned by finishing at, or near, the bottom of the standings for those three straight years, for in the NBA just like the NFL, the worst teams from the previous season get the first choices.

The second half of “The Process” – that is, what happens after the fire sale – is that the 76ers had to wait for those young players to develop. That takes a year or two or three.

But “The Process” is now complete. The 76ers have arrived. And as such, it’s now time for them to reap the benefits of all their hard work – and losing – and begin having fun. Winning is a heckuva lot of fun.

It’s easy to see, in my opinion, that there are stark similarities between what the 76ers have done and what the Browns are now in the … well, process of doing.

The Browns are set to take a huge step – a franchise-defining and franchise-re-energizing step — in their version of “The Process” in a little over a week in the NFL Draft. With the No. 1 and 4 overall picks, along with Nos. 33 and 35, they have all the firepower necessary – all the opportunities necessary – to get difference-making players who can, if they come through as expected, begin to make the Browns a franchise that can be taken seriously again.

It happened in Philadelphia.

And – maybe, just maybe – it can happen in Cleveland, too.

If it did, wouldn’t that be cool?

Wouldn’t that have been worth it?