By Peter Gleason
The Sixers season may be two months away, but the Ben Simmons trade rumor machine just keeps on cranking two months to the day after their game 7 meltdown to the Hawks.
In a new trade suggestion from Bleacher Report, they have the Sixers moving Simmons to the Sacramento Kings in a deal that involves the Toronto Raptors as a third team.
The deal:
Sixers receive: Buddy Hield, Goran Dragic, a 2022 first-round pick and a 2024 first-round pick from the Kings, a 2023 second-round pick and a 2025 second-round pick from the Raptors
Kings receive: Simmons
Raptors receive: Marvin Bagley III and Furkan Korkmaz
B/R on the deal for the Sixers:
Hield is on a short list of the game’s greatest quantity-plus-quality shooters, and he’s been a 19-point scorer since the start of 2018-19. Dragic would scratch an itch for perimeter shot-creation having just completed a campaign in which he averaged 18.1 points, 5.9 assists and 2.5 threes per 36 minutes. The four draft picks would give Daryl Morey ammunition to chase an impact piece in a separate swap.
