2023-2024 Sixers Season

[bigegypt0417]

what is the compensation if reed signs elsewhere?

[Docs]

The sixers can match but if they don’t i don’t believe they receive compensation

[zambonir]

Well okay yeah, not entirely up to Reed then.

[VoteForKalas]

I think Reed's return is pretty much up to Reed right?

Reed cannot make himself an offer or force the 76ers to make one. He likely wants to stay since this is the only team he knows and has developed into a good players here.

[zambonir]

Right, but another team could make him an offer that he can't refuse (and that is possibly unappealing to the Sixers in terms of matching). I don't think the Sixers want to lose Reed, so I guess the Q implied by your post would be is Bamba insurance, or leverage to try and get Reed into signing for less?

[bkeich]

Was just telling my wife I had a dream last night that Harden was traded for Paul George and 2 1st round picks. I was going to come on here and bemoan the trade before I realized it was a dream.

[xogfog]

In a puzzling move, the Sixers re-sign Montrezl Harrell, right after they signed Bamba and claim they will bring back Reed. Maybe Reed will play the 4 if they move Harris, otherwise why would you need four centers?

[xogfog]

I created a 5 team trade that would address the Harden and Lillard situations:

Sixers receive SG Zach Lavine, PG Tyler Herro, F Duncan Robinson
Clippers receive PG James Harden
Heat receive PG Damian Lillard
Trail Blazers receive C Nicola Vucevic, G Norman Powell, SG Terance Mann, SF Caleb Martin
Bull receive PF Tobias Harris, SF Marcus Morris

Sixers get a pretty good return for Harden and Harris
Bulls get two expiring contracts
Trail Blazers get a respectable haul for Lillard
Harden gets his wish
Lillard gets his wish

Ran it through the trade machine, it works salary wise. Thoughts?

[allentown]

A 5-way seems to be too many moving pieces to be worked out. Has there ever been a 5-way?

[phillychuck]

Portland says no without a draft choice or two.

[zambonir]

Yeah, Portland needs picks. And Sixers aren't going to do that well. It is probably going to be a long summer.

[VoteForKalas]

In a puzzling move, the Sixers re-sign Montrezl Harrell, right after they signed Bamba and claim they will bring back Reed. Maybe Reed will play the 4 if they move Harris, otherwise why would you need four centers?

Because they will trade Embiid? Sorry, could not resist

[zambonir]

Isn't Harrell really more of a 4 himself?

[phillychuck]

Isn't Harrell really more of a 4 himself?

3/4 height with 5 skills. He doesn't have any outside game at all, really, so he can't stretch the floor if he plays with Embiid. Plays hard and his teammates like him. Not a bad guy for the deep bench. He just is impossibly bad on defense, though.

[bigegypt0417]

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1677700671292813312?t=vLsyURl8GD3zV0NEunybsg&s=19

[zambonir]

He's gotta be gone right? (I mean, I guess it's only money and there's so much else that's still going to happen with the roster but no it sure does look like those last two moves foreshadowed an offer they might not match.)

One term of the offer sheet contains a unique twist: The first season of the contract is fully guaranteed, while the following two seasons become guaranteed if Reed's team advances to the conference semifinals in 2023-24, sources said. Given where the two franchises stand, it is more likely the Sixers would have to guarantee the $15.7 million total for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons than the Jazz.

If the 76ers match the offer sheet, they would exceed the $165 million luxury tax threshold and incur an additional $14 million in luxury tax penalties. Reed would have veto power on trades for a year if he remains in Philadelphia.

76ers RFA Reed signs $23M offer sheet with Jazz

[Docs]

Was the contract intended to guarantee Reed a big pay day if the sixers match, or was it an effort to prevent the sixers from matching? Glass is half empty for me, it feels like he wants to leave. It’s too bad Rivers didn’t play Reed more.

[zambonir]

It just seems like a pure upside play for the Jazz, they can pay him next year and give him far more minutes and if it works out, they can keep him for two more years. If it doesn't the deal isn't guaranteed.

Of course the idea that it becomes more onerous for the Sixers if they make the second round next season seems doubly flawed right now, i.e. who knows what kind of season, with what players, they are actually going to have, and if they do make, it, and he's good, they can still afford him in the subsequent years, or he'll be tradeable.

I wouldn't say Reed wants to leave, but he doesn't want to stay for $2.6 million. And he also doesn't want to re-sign and then get thrown into a Harden, Tobias or deadline deal. But that, more than the $ and tax issues, is probably the best reason for the Sixers to pass on it.

[bkeich]

I guess we know now why they resigned Harrell. Shame to see him leave, but there is no way they should match that contract.

[xogfog]

It was specifically Ainge sticking it to the Sixers, the wording in the contract is if the signing team makes it to the second round, the full contract is guaranteed. Usually those types of provisions in a contract are conference finals or finals, so it was a jab at the Sixers because they can't get past the second round. In either case, it's not an overwhelming contract and the Sixers would be stupid not to match for a young guy who has made improvements in has game.