By Sarah Paley
The Sixers are likely to make a trade before Thursday’s 3 p.m. EST deadline.
But it won’t be nearly as big as the 2022 deadline when they had to deal with the Ben Simmons saga.
Per John Hollinger of The Athletic:
If there is one team to absolutely, positively bet on making a trade to ditch salary, it’s Philadelphia.
The Sixers are a mere $1.17 million over the tax line; despite having a good team that is in contention, they also have some very tradeable players at the end of the bench not doing much.
Furkan Korkmaz, Danuel House and Jaden Springer hardly play and make $12 million between them; they’re each signed for next year, which makes things more complicated, but Philly might be able to part with its 2023 Knicks second-rounder to offload one of them and get below the tax.
