OT: The Philadelphia Seventy Sixers: Maxeymum Effort (22/23 Regular Season)

[Jack Straw]

Saw a report that PG and Leonard are on board with it.

So I’m guessing we wouldn’t get PG in the trade? Interesting.

Scuttlebutt seems to suggest some combination of Powell, Morris, and Mann. Which wouldn’t suck but would still be disappointing.

 

[SnS]

Scuttlebutt seems to suggest some combination of Powell, Morris, and Mann. Which wouldn’t suck but would still be disappointing.

Doesn’t sound too great. Figured a third team would be involved somehow.

But I guess we’d then have to swap stuff to get someone else.

It’s all confusing to me.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

What I think of a 2-team trade with the Clippers will basically come down to whether they can get at least one of the 2028/30 picks or not. The rumor is Harden has a unique appeal to LAC because of the lack of term. They sound like they’re one more failed run out from blowing it up.

Construct the rest however you want. Add Tucker, don’t add him, take Powell instead of Morris, whatever. I need the picks.

 

[Taijuan Fedotov]

Saw a report that PG and Leonard are on board with it.

So I’m guessing we wouldn’t get PG in the trade? Interesting.

That trio would have no chance of cohesion.

Maybe they will each play 27 games and try to make the playoffs healthy.

 

[Tripod]

Windhorst:

Harden took a 15 million dollars cut last year so the team could try and be better. He expected, likely due to a convo with Morey, that he would be compensate with an extension. Forward 1 year, Morey doesn't offer that extension and Harden feels like he was used last year.

 

[Tripod]

 

[Jack Straw]

Who in their right mind fires JVG and Rose but keeps Mark Jackson and Kendrick Perkins?

 

[Flybynite]

 

[Tripod]

The New York Knicks have emerged as favorites to sign Donte DiVincenzo

 

[Rebels57]

Oh man, I just looked at their site. I could hork down an unseemly number of those.

Very overrated, unfortunately.

Insomnia Cookies are way better and I can't stress this enough, Nothing Bundt Cakes is f***ing amazing.

 

[Flybynite]

Who in their right mind fires JVG and Rose but keeps Mark Jackson and Kendrick Perkins?

Apparently Perkins is a leading candidate to be 'promoted' to a larger role on NBA countdown show lol

 

[FLYguy3911]

Perkins gets clicks. This is the way these days. They did kick him on the draft I guess after his “Moody Moses” breakdown.

 

[Taijuan Fedotov]

f*** ESPN. Hope the company folds.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

She's a steady enough reporter, but her presence at the front of a show like that isn't very good. They need to just bump Laure Rutledge into that role and they'll be good. As long as they lose Steve Young, who is f***ing terrible. I could do without Booger as well. RG III has a ton of potential.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Philadelphia does not have to move Harden to his preferred destination with the Clippers. President Daryl Morey, league sources told Yahoo Sports, has already been active in exploring the trade market for Harden outside of just dealing with Los Angeles and the team’s obvious interest in landing the point guard. At this early point, the Sixers are at least projecting a patience to this trade process, similar to how Philadelphia signaled it would take its time moving Ben Simmons before ultimately flipping him to Brooklyn for Harden at the 2022 trade deadline. Chicago would be one potential trade partner to keep in mind, as the Bulls have made Zach LaVine available in conversations this offseason, sources said, and could also send an All-Star such as DeMar DeRozan back to Philadelphia. But there will be many avenues the Sixers explore before finalizing a Harden trade.

Harden would give Los Angeles a similar outcome, albeit likely at a larger cost than what Paul would have been for the Clippers. How much pricier? There’s certainly a sense among league executives that Philadelphia isn’t operating from a position of particular strength, but the Clippers are looking at potential long-term salary savings that would at least call for some form of draft compensation back to the Sixers.

2023 NBA free agency: Should we be preparing for James Harden to end up with the Clippers?

As free agency is set to kick off at 6 p.m. ET Friday, Harden, Kyrie Irving, Fred VanVleet, Bruce Brown and the Lakers will be the centers of attention.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[Jack Straw]

The New York Knicks have emerged as favorites to sign Donte DiVincenzo

Villanova Knicks

 

[Embiid]

Windhorst:

Harden took a 15 million dollars cut last year so the team could try and be better. He expected, likely due to a convo with Morey, that he would be compensate with an extension. Forward 1 year, Morey doesn't offer that extension and Harden feels like he was used last year.

Sixers were used while he went to strip clubs and choked in pivotol playoff games...eff him.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

Me trying to figure out NBA trades and contracts:

I don't follow enough to have an opinion on who we might get back for Harden, but unless it's absolute trash, I won't miss him one bit.

 

[Tripod]

Sixers were used while he went to strip clubs and choked in pivotol playoff games...eff him.

His best game came after going to that strip club. It's his viagra.

 

[Chinatown88]

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Just so everyone is clear, this is the right move. It's CBA-driven.

Doing it this way keeps his cap hold way down for next year and prevents him from being a poison pill contract. Those are much harder to make work in trades.

 

[Jack Straw]

Just so everyone is clear, this is the right move. It's CBA-driven.

Doing it this way keeps his cap hold way down for next year and prevents him from being a poison pill contract. Those are much harder to make work in trades.

But this exposes him (and the team) to RFA offers, no? Although I imagine the Sixers can offer him more than any other team?

 

[JojoTheWhale]

But this exposes him (and the team) to RFA offers, no? Although I imagine the Sixers can offer him more than any other team?

Correct on both counts. It's not a huge difference, but it's more. They'd just match anything.

 

[Taijuan Fedotov]

I would have done this to Simmons a few years ago. Would have been great to see his ego response to that. And Wiggins prior to him if we were the Wolves.

This is a very team friendly situation, as long as Maxey doesn't mail it in this season.

 

[Flybynite]

But this exposes him (and the team) to RFA offers, no? Although I imagine the Sixers can offer him more than any other team?

Sixers can offer a 5 year deal. Other teams can only offer 4. Potentially the advantage is if they are offering him a 5-year max, if they did the extension now it would immediately count against the cap on July 1st, 2024. Doing it this way means his cap-hit on July 1st, 2024 would be around $13m until he signs a deal. So certainly would have the Sixers at a much lower salary total (hell I think Embiid is the only guaranteed salary for 2024-2025. PJ Tucker is a player option which he'd prob exercise, but everyone else is club option or expiring).

Although I'm not really sure the FA next class next summer looks that impactful. I guess Jaylen Brown and Siakam are the top.