3 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

I think Pop has thrown in the towel and just doesn't give a f anymore.

Even more reason to take a chance on Ben.  

Could take them out of the Danny green market 

 

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Could take them out of the Danny green market 

 

They have a lot of dominant personalities on that team now.  They better hope they mesh.

Just now, Khani1 said:

They have a lot of dominant personalities on that team now.  They better hope they mesh.

They also have a bunch of guys who can get the early bird special dinner in Miami and close to senior citizen discount 

4 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Could take them out of the Danny green market 

 

Dumbest signing this year. Dude is really overrated on the defensive end and adds nothing to the offense 

8 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Could take them out of the Danny green market 

 

Dumbest signing this year. Dude is really overrated on the defensive end and adds nothing to the offense. 

Everyone wants to say he slowed down KD but KD averaged 35.4ppg in the series. Riley made a mistake on that one 

Danny will probably just go to the Lakers now.

 

All the Heat need now are the Morris’ and their whole squad will officially be waiting for you in the parking lot. 

2 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

Dumbest signing this year. Dude is really overrated on the defensive end and adds nothing to the offense. 

Everyone wants to say he slowed down KD but KD averaged 35.4ppg in the series. Riley made a mistake on that one 

Almost every player beside the Bam and Duncan Robinson is old. After next year all those guys could fall off a cliff and owe them a ton of money. 

1 minute ago, mr_hunt said:

Danny will probably just go to the Lakers now.

Lakers paying westbrook, AD and Lebron a ton of money really can’t offer him all that much. The sixers realistically could offer him more. It would come down to if he rather be in LA or here making more money. 

2 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

Danny will probably just go to the Lakers now.

he spoke out against 6ers fans. Would be an interesting choice to go back to LA were fans sent him death threats for sucking so bad for them.

Just now, HazletonEagle said:

he spoke out against 6ers fans. Would be an interesting choice to go back to LA were fans sent him death threats for sucking so bad for them.

That’s another point. Lakers fans sent death threats to him and his fiancé during the playoffs. 

Just now, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

That’s another point. Lakers fans sent death threats to him and his fiancé during the playoffs. 

I wonder if we just end up with Maxey at PG. Austin Rivers at backup PG

Curry at SG. JJ Redick back to back him up. 

Keep Danny Green. Kork backing him up. (is there still an upgrade here for the bench?)

Tobi / FA

Embiid/ FA

 

Thats with Simmons excluded. Plug in whichever players we get in return. 

If you do a Spurs deal as realgm feels is becoming more likely, I guess you might be plugging in Derrick White, and Vassell

 

Its not exciting. It doesnt win a championship. Its probably pretty much what we should brace ourselves to expect.

 

 

 

Devonta Graham to Pelicans.

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 

if they do we gotta get Harris for McCollum going. 

Morey got the Sixers Curry and hasn't done much else. 

dame dolla & drake collabo 🔥🔥

1 minute ago, DaEagles4Life said:

Morey got the Sixers Curry and hasn't done much else. 

He did unload horford’s bad contract   Honestly one of the worst moves they made during all this was spending their final year with significant cap space on him

5 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

Morey got the Sixers Curry and hasn't done much else. 

Correct. Also, partly, been blocked by Doc.

However, despite the underwhelming trade value Brand has gotten, he deserves a TON of credit right now for wanting to trade Simmons (and being blocked by ownership) like 2 or 3 years ago. He was right. Some of us knew it at the time. Morey and Doc wasted another whole year. Let his value further diminish. And are just not going to get anywhere near what they are asking.

Now if we have all of our FA targets sign elsewhere, and still have Simmons in camp its a huuuuuge failure for Morey. He should be desperate to trade him. The longer this goes towards the start of the season, the more teams will sense that desperation and take advantage leveraging that against him in negotiations. 

Simmons better improve his foul shots and outside shots because he's going to be on the team this season. If he does, maybe we can trade him at the trade deadline. 

How do we feel about a McCollum/Covington trade and a S&T for DeRozan?

Its going to require taking less than people hope and expect for Ben. But you have a legit back court to pair with Embiid. 

McCollum

DeRozan

Green hopefully...

Covington

Embiid

Knicks gonna Knick… woof

So Hoffman and bodner on the trade exception 

The Sixers have an $8.2 million trade exception as a result of last year’s Al Horford trade. The exception expires in September. The Sixers can use that exception to absorb a salary in a trade, without sending any salary out themselves. A few notes: First, the Sixers cannot use this exception to sign a free agent. They also cannot aggregate another salary alongside of this exception. For example, they can’t add in Seth Curry’s $8.2 million salary to this $8.190 million exception to receive a player with a $16 million contract. The trade exception can, however, be split. (They can acquire a player with a $4 million salary using the exception, then acquire another player with a $4 million salary in a separate transaction using the remainder of the exception.)

on the sixers cap situation:

A Simmons trade could, theoretically, lower the Sixers’ salary-cap commitments. A refresher on the rules: For an over-the-cap team, the rules for how much salary it can receive back in a trade is dependent on how much it sends out. When sending out more than $19.6 million in salary, the max an over-the-cap team can receive back is 125 percent of its outgoing salary, plus $100,000. In order to be able to take back Simmons’ $33 million salary, an over-the-cap team would have to send out a minimum $26.4 million in salary, which is a gap of around $6.6 million. This gap can be extended based on aggregating more salary (to make the 25 percent gap wider), finding an under-the-cap team or a few other ways. But this is a quick example of a way the Sixers can create space under the apron.

• We’ll get more into the apron below, but one of the reasons it’s important is because if the Sixers had significant room underneath, they could use the full, non-taxpayer midlevel exception ($9.5 million starting salary, up to four years) instead of the taxpayer midlevel ($5.9 million starting salary, up to three years). As we’ll get into below, that allows the Sixers to shop for a different class of free agents.

• That being said, given all the Sixers would have to give up in order to stay below the $143 million apron, unless the Sixers dump significant salary on a team with cap space, the most likely scenario is they shop with the taxpayer MLE. Again, we’ll get into that below. It’s just something to keep in mind when you look at the table above.

on the apron

Removing Hill and Anthony Tolliver from the equation, the Sixers have roughly $120 million committed to nine players (plus the small, $1.3 million guarantee on Hill’s 2021-22 salary). We’ll eventually tack on another $2 million for Springer to make it a little more than $122 million for 10 players. Heading into free agency, that leaves the Sixers a little more than $20 million shy of the projected $143 million apron with the rest of the roster to fill out.

As a reminder, that $143 million number becomes a hard cap if a team does any of the following: acquires a player in a sign-and-trade, uses the $9.5 million MLE or uses the bi-annual exception ($3.7 million).

If the Sixers take the straightforward path in free agency, that hard cap won’t come into play. Let’s say they decide to re-sign Danny Green and Furkan Korkmaz with Early Bird and Bird rights, respectively, while also using the taxpayer midlevel exception ($5.9 million) and minimum contracts to get a backup center and fill out the rest of the roster. In that case, the $143 million number doesn’t matter. Additionally, if Simmons is traded for players currently under contract (i.e., not free agents this offseason), the hard cap still wouldn’t matter. The Sixers, staring at a luxury tax bill, wouldn’t be particularly flexible in that general scenario. But they wouldn’t be worried about a hard cap, either, a significant difference.

14 minutes ago, Blazehound said:

Knicks gonna Knick… woof

I mean Rose, Burks and Noel aren't bad deals but Fourier is terrible.