What is Philadelphia doing?

[FireDavidKahn]

Thank you. Staggered by one year each, which is helpful. But otherwise.. it will be a difficult thing to do.

Yep. Might be a problem with the Wolves as well. Obviously KAT and Wiggins will be locks to get max contracts, but we also have some potential very good role players. Shabazz/Dieng will need to paid and so will Lavine. No idea how good/bad Tyus will be but he is another potential signing.

This is a huge negative of having virtually your entire roster being 1-2 year players. We have a great (potential) core but it's gonna be tricky keeping them all long term.

[longtime lurker]

Trust the process my friends

[eeeeeebro]

ITs easier to get Point guards shooting guards and small forwards in the free agency.. ITS very hard to find a FRONT line that can compete for a championship.

[FireDavidKahn]

ITs easier to get Point guards shooting guards and small forwards in the free agency.. ITS very hard to find a FRONT line that can compete for a championship.

Not really. You need high end talent on the wing. That isn't coming to Philly via FA.

[Dbrog]

As far as Okafor, Noel, and Embiid go, there's no problem there yet. A problem won't exist until we see embiid and okafor play their first seasons. 1) this may never happen for one of them.. and 2) one may prove to be a bench player. In both of these scenarios, Philly made the correct choice on draft night and would be praised as "smart." This is just as likely as any other scenario so we will just have to wait and see.

[RRR3]

Trust the process my friends

[Le Shaqtus]

They're obviously planning for a starting 5 of all centers.

[RRR3]

They're obviously planning for a starting 5 of all centers.

Dat Spacing

[iamgine]

Yeah at this point it seems that drafting Embiid and Saric with the idea that you can move them as "assets" or whatever, has kinda backfired. Saric looks like he may never come over to the league and I don't know how much they could get for Embiid who in his first 2 years in the league may never even play cause of injury problems.

I do think that Okafor/Noel is a good starting point and both of those guys compliment eachother really well, but they have no other talent at all on that roster and basically have to keep tanking when this is the time where they should start at least getting into the playoffs or coming close, not going like 18-64 again.

Well, the problem is plain bad luck since Embiid and Saric has yet to show their talent. It's not Philly's fault they're injured/overseas. If we want to compare, then we should compare them taking guards who are also injured/playing overseas. Not getting to the playoff there too.

[wang4three]

Honestly I think the Sixers had no contingency plan thinking that the Lakers were going to take Okafor. I don't think they planned for the Lakers to take Russell and when they did, they were left trying to decide what to do. They couldn't NOT take Okafor.. they probably tried to trade the pick but didn't get any good offers and that was it. Now they have Noel who is nice next to Okafor but Embiid is probably at the lowest value he could be. Wouldn't be surprised if Billy King was offering Plumlee for Embiid after they picked Okafor.

[IncarceratedBob]

they're acquiring assets. they already have multiple A+ quality assets. they could trade embiid and noel for durant and then flip okafor for paul george in a second.

[Fallen Angel]

IMO you've spent numerous years in the lottery and don't even have a team developed yet? That's a mega fail.

It's been only 3 years... The first year they barely missed the playoffs and had an All-Star in Jrue Holiday.

Don't be stupid

[bballnoob1192]

they're acquiring assets. they already have multiple A+ quality assets. they could trade embiid and noel for durant and then flip okafor for paul george in a second.

the delusion of this post.

[Fallen Angel]

Kahn reincarnate

Kahn is retarded

Hinkie is making the best of the few assets he had when he started this rebuild and is doing a really good job at it.


He's ended up with two potential franchise players.

A future All-Defensive PF

and a really good oversees player with high hops


He's not that far from making a James Harden type trade that the Rockets were able to pull off.

[HighFlyer23]

Setting up some moves