Redick joined The Athletic’s Derek …

Redick joined The Athletic’s Derek Bodner and Rich Hofmann on their podcast, Sixers Beat, to discuss why he left Philadelphia in the offseason despite the success the team had. He cited the exit interview with general manager Elton Brand as he felt like the team was headed in another direction. Redick said: Elton was transparent with me. It wasn’t like he said ‘we don’t want you back’, he said ‘we want you back’, and Philly made an offer. You can read between the lines a little bit and I got the sense that they wanted to be bigger across the board. That was just the sense that I got. So much of our league, every league is sort of a copycat league and you look at last season with the Raptors and the Bucks and with the wings and the frontcourt, they’re just big. I got the sense that they wanted to be bigger.