2000–01 Philadelphia 76ers season

The 2000–01 NBA season was the 52nd season for the Philadelphia 76ers in the National Basketball Association, and their 38th season in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 76ers won their first ten games of the regular season, held a 36–14 record at the All-Star break, and finished in first place in the Atlantic Division with a 56–26 record, which earned them the #1 seed in the Eastern Conference; it was the team's first 50-win season since 1989–90, and also their best regular season record since 1984–85.

All-Star guard Allen Iverson averaged 31.1 points, 4.6 assists and 2.5 steals per game, leading the league in both scoring and steals; he was named to the All-NBA First Team, and was named the NBA Most Valuable Player of the Year for his accomplishments, beating Tim Duncan and Shaquille O'Neal by a wide margin. Iverson was also selected to start for the Eastern Conference at the 2001 NBA All-Star Game in Washington, D.C., and was named the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player, while head coach Larry Brown was selected to coach the Eastern Conference; Brown was also named the NBA Coach of the Year.

In addition, the 76ers traded Theo Ratliff, Toni Kukoč, and Nazr Mohammed to the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for All-Star center Dikembe Mutombo in a mid-season trade; Mutombo played in 26 games for the 76ers after the trade, averaging 11.7 points, 12.4 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game, and was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year for the fourth time, and was also named to the All-NBA Second Team, and to the NBA All-Defensive First Team. Meanwhile, Aaron McKie averaged 11.6 points, 5.0 assists and 1.4 steals per game, and was named the NBA Sixth Man of the Year. while Tyrone Hill provided the team with 9.6 points and 9.0 rebounds per game, Eric Snow contributed 9.8 points, 7.5 assists and 1.5 steals per game, but only played just 50 games due to a stress fracture in his right ankle, and George Lynch provided with 8.4 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. The 76ers had the fifth best team defensive rating in the NBA.

However, this season was not without controversy. After 50 games, Ratliff sustained a wrist injury that sidelined him for the remainder of the regular season, thus only having Matt Geiger, and second-year player Todd MacCulloch at center; Ratliff averaged 12.4 points, 8.3 rebounds and 3.7 blocks per game, and was also selected to play in the All-Star Game along with Iverson, but did not participate because of his injury. The 76ers then traded him along with Kukoč, and Mohammed to the Hawks for Mutombo. By trading Kukoc (who was not included in the original proposed deal, and who won three championships with Phil Jackson as his coach during his tenure with the Chicago Bulls), the 76ers had only one other player on the roster who had NBA Finals experience, Snow, who played a total of 24 minutes in 10 games in the 1996 NBA playoffs as a reserve for the Seattle SuperSonics. At one point, the team's record was 42–14, but finished 14–12 the rest of the way, including a five-game losing streak in March.

In the final game of the regular season, against the Chicago Bulls at the First Union Center on April 18, 2001, Brown rested his starters instead of trying to go for a win, as the 76ers lost to the Bulls, 92–86; had the 76ers won this game, they would have had the league's second-best record behind the San Antonio Spurs, and home court advantage over the Los Angeles Lakers in the Finals. Both teams had the same record, but the Lakers' record for non-conference opponents was better than Philadelphia's.

In the 2001 NBA playoffs, Iverson and the 76ers faced off against the 8th-seeded Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference First Round; despite losing Game 1 at home, 79–78, the 76ers won the next three games, thus the series, before meeting the Vince Carter-led Toronto Raptors in the Eastern Conference Semi-finals. The Raptors took a 2–1 series lead, but the 76ers managed to win the series in seven games. In the Eastern Conference Finals, the Sixers trailed 2–1 to the Milwaukee Bucks, but managed to win the series also in seven games, to advance to the 2001 NBA Finals against the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers. Iverson scored 48 points in Game 1, which the 76ers won at the Staples Center in overtime, 107–101. However, the Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant-led Lakers would win the next four games, thus winning their second consecutive NBA championship.

Following the season, Hill was traded along with second-year forward Jumaine Jones back to his former team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Lynch was dealt to the Charlotte Hornets.

The team's season roster has been featured in the video game series NBA 2K. However, Rodney Buford, Roshown McLeod, Kevin Ollie, Pepe Sánchez, Raja Bell, and Speedy Claxton have been excluded from past installations of the game due to issues in regards to the permission of using the players' likenesses in the games.

For the season, the 76ers slightly redesigned their uniforms, which remained in use until 2007. This was the last time the 76ers won the Atlantic Division title, and clinched the #1 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs until the 2020–21 COVID-19 pandemic-shortened season.