By Josh Liddick, Sports Talk Philly editor 
When the Summer League tips-off tonight in Utah against the Boston Celtics, fans around the globe will see something for the very first time in the NBA: The arrival of Markelle Fultz.
Fultz has been hyped for months to be the next coming of something very special in the league, and for a while, many imagined Fultz wearing green and white going into tonight.
But the tables have turned, and instead will be suiting up for the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Sixers know they have something truly special with Fultz, and know that he brings a ton of qualities to a team that is laser-focused on moving up to the next level and turning a team from a perennial cellar-dweller into an annual contender.
Markelle Fultz can shoot and defend as well as or maybe even better than any rookie going into this season, and him being the complete package is the very reason he more than likely would have been the first overall pick by any team that could've drafted him
Tonight, the world gets to see the spectacle that Markelle has already told us he can be, and the spectacle the world is expecting to see when the season starts in the fall.
Tonight, as rookies all around the league prepare for a couple weeks of basketball, Fultz will finally be able to play in an NBA setting.
We already know how well Fultz will fit with Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid, and Dario Saric, and now he gets to gain familiarity with his other young teammates.
When Ben Simmons made his debut in the Summer League last summer, he showed exactly the player he was going to be, and proved that he was going to fit the Sixers better than any other rookie that was drafted in 2016.
Now Markelle Fultz has a chance to be as transcendent and Simmons, and some people would say that the hype for Fultz this summer is bigger than it was for Simmons last summer.
People love watching players score, and that is exactly what Fultz brings to the table. He could one day be one of the more prolific scorers in the NBA and the Sixers have control of him.
The best part about Fultz is how mature he is for his age of 19.
So many 19 year-olds don't have a vision for their future nearly as much as Fultz sees what he wants now.
He wants to be the best, and tonight, he gets to show people a glimpse of that very promising future.
