Daryl Morey details trade plans for Sixers as deadline quickly approaches
The Feb. 9 trade deadline is quickly approaching and now is the time for teams to figure out how they can improve their team. The Philadelphia 76ers are no different as they move forward with their title plans for the 2022-23 season.
Most around the league believe the Sixers will focus on smaller deals with Furkan Korkmaz’s name being floated around in order to shed some salary and get under the luxury tax line.
President Daryl Morey, who has never been afraid to make a move, joined Anthony Gargano on 97.5 The Fanatic and he spoke on the team’s plans before the trade deadline:
Our only goal, we’ve had multiple meetings this week, we’re going into another meeting right after this call, on finding someone who can contribute to this team. It’s our job, but it is hard because we look around the league, and you say, ‘That guy is not better than our 11th guy who just won the game in Sacramento for us.’ It’s a harder year, but hey, we will find somebody, I think…If you overlap players that would play in our playoff rotation with the players that are available, esepcially with so many teams who feel they are in it with the play-in game and everything, it gets down to a very small group of players. It’s not zero but it’s not a big group of players.
It’s obvious that Morey has some tough decisions to make before the deadline in order to not only find some cap relief, but to also find another piece to help this team win a title right now.
At the moment, Philadelphia has a championship-caliber roster. Joel Embiid and James Harden are playing at a high level, Tyrese Maxey has embraced his bench role, and guys like Tobias Harris, De’Anthony Melton, PJ Tucker, Georges Niang, and others have really thrived in their roles. It also doesn’t hurt to find another piece that could help in the playoffs if that opportunity came up.
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