Beyond this year, the sixers only have three roster spots locked up: Joel Embiid, Paul Reed, and Jaden Springer. The team is quite obviously going to extend a max to Tyrese Maxey after the other moves in the offseason to achieve their maximum financial flexibility. So we can essentially consider four roster spots locked up.
The team with the next smallest number of roster spots taken up next year is 8. That’s a massive gap, and the sixers do have the most cap room, but they have by far the most spots that they need to fit into that cap room.
People are talking about giving 40 million to a 3 and D player like OG, when he would be just the fifth player on the roster for next year. That would severely limit the sixers ability to construct any semblance of a bench unit that could compete.
So my question, what is the plan beyond this year? Why are there so many roster spots open? How will the sixers be able to fill all of those and pull a team together that is cohesive next year with all the moving pieces?
I’m simply trying to understand, my intent is not to knock what they are doing.
There’s the draft, multiple exceptions, and a lot of vet min deals.
That takes us to 8. You can also sign multiple players with the exceptions, which we can probably do to extend Cov, Batum, etc - of course if Batum doesn’t retire.
I’d imagine a lot of these are going to be handshake deals with their own players, they’ll get their big fish and then bring who they can back. Ideally we bring back Oubre Cov and Batum
Paying OG $40M would be a massive mistake in pretty much any situation. He ain’t that guy