"These are busy days for Sixers team president Rod Thorn.

The NBA draft is two days away. The organization is slated to pick 16th in a draft that Thorn called "pretty wide open" after the first four picks. The team's current owner, Comcast-Spectacor, is in discussions with prospective new owners, led by New York native Josh Harris, who is estimated to be worth $1.5 billion. The NBA's collective bargaining agreement will expire on June 30, and to date the owners and players' association remain worlds apart. And Andre Iguodala is rumored daily to be leaving the City of Brotherly Love.

All that and still Thorn is calm and forthcoming and prepared for the road that lies ahead. The possibility that the Sixers will be sold is not preventing Thorn from doing his job; as a matter of fact he says it is business as usual.

"I am sure that if and when the sale is completed and there is new ownership – every owner is different as to how they deal with their basketball people," Thorn said. "We will have to see how that goes. But right now we are operating the way we normally do."

Thorn has had multiple conversations with various people who are said to be part of the group entertaining the idea of purchasing the team, and he would concur that those conversations are more one-sided than back and forth.

"They have questions about how we do things, why we do things, what we think of our personnel, what we think we need – those types of things. Information type questions," he explained.

Thorn entered the NBA through the draft in 1963 as the second overall pick by the Baltimore Bullets. Forty-eight years later he is still working in the league. He has been an assistant coach, head coach, general manager, team president and league vice president of basketball operations.

Being part of a possible change in ownership is not new to Thorn; this is his fourth such experience while working for a franchise.

"Until all of the I's are dotted and T's are crossed, you never have a deal," Thorn said. "That is why I don't even want to speculate on what you guys already know because I am not privy to those conversations. You just don't know until the deal is actually signed and a lot of these things break down in the last part of them, so you never know.""