When it comes to individual greatness, the all-time Sixers match up with just about any other team. Erving, Chamberlain, Malone, Barkley, Iverson… Philadelphia has had the fortune of playing home to some of the best to ever step on an NBA floor, and the list goes on.

Last week, Sports Illustrated ranked the best players to wear each jersey number ever donned in an NBA game, and although Allen Iverson’s #3 was perplexingly left off the list in favor of that of Dwyane Wade, as well as Julius Erving’s #6 and Charles Barkley’s #34 perhaps more understandably for Bill Russell’s and Shaquille O’Neal’s, seven other Sixers made the list of 80. But while Moses Malone (#2) and Wilt Chamberlain (#13) were no-brainers, and Kyle Korver (#26) and Dikembe Mutombo (#55) were understandable selections, a few made the cut thanks in large part to the rarity of their uniform number. Jason Kopono (#72), for instance, made the list, as did Shawn Bradley (#76). But given the fact that the current Sixers are the league’s youngest team, I didn’t imagine when I first clicked on the article that one would make the cut.

I was wrong.

In the history of the NBA, only four players have ever donned the number 39, Tom Tolbert for the Charlotte Hornets in 1994-95, Zeljko Rebraca during his three seasons in Detroit from 2001-04, Utah big man Greg Ostertag, who briefly switched from 00 to 39 from 1999-2001 before switching back, and rising sophomore Sixer Jerami Grant. As a rookie, Jerami Grant averaged 6.3 points, 3.0 rebounds, and 1.0 blocks in 21.2 minutes per game, earning him a spot on Sports Illustrated’s list and a rightful place amongst all-time greats Michael Jordan (#23), Magic Johnson (#32), and Jerry West (#44).

It will be an uphill climb for some of Grant’s teammates to join him on the list, with #8 Jahlil Okafor needing to eventually catch Kobe Bryant, #21 Joel Embiid needing to catch Tim Duncan, and #33 Robert Covington needing to catch Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. My suggestion would be for Okafor to change his number to Bevo Nordmann’s #61, Embiid to Gheorghe Muresan’s #77, and Covington to #87, which has never been used before in the NBA. But until then, Jerami Grant can hold his head high as the team’s only certified GOAT.