The Sixers have lots of flexibility, with salary-cap space and replenished trade assets to work with while aiming to build around Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey.
President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey has 10 Sixers' pending free agents and plenty of cap space this summer to acquire a third star.The Sixers ended the 2023-24 season earlier than desired for a team began it with championship aspirations, with a first-round playoff loss to the New York Knicks.Now, the Sixers have lots of flexibility, with salary-cap space and replenished trade assets to work with.
That potentially makes the trade route more enticing, yet still incredibly unpredictable. Jimmy Butler, Brandon Ingram, Mikal Bridges, and Kevin Durant are names that have already been floated by outsiders. But it’s unclear whether any of those players’ current teams would actually consider moving on.
Whether the Sixers land a splashy star will help determine how much of that cap space can be used on those players.The Sixers have the 16th pick in this year’s draft, a just-outside-the-lottery selection that is higher than in past years. And what they pull off during that now-two-day event could provide clues to how they plan to attack the rest of the offseason .
The Sixers’ front office will get another in-person look at many of those prospects at the Draft Combine in Chicago next week.The Sixers possibly could have gotten Maxey to sign for slightly under a max deal when he first became eligible for his rookie extension last summer. That won’t fly after another breakout season, when he became a first-time All-Star, theBut the Sixers will take that overall outcome, because of the smaller cap hold it gives them and the player Maxey has become.
Yet it also might impact how he comes into training camp in the fall. It could help get him in shape … or it could lead to some early season fatigue.Summer League has turned into a bit of a Las Vegas spectacle. But at its core, it is a setting to find and develop young players and staff members.
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