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Daryl Morey explains Sixers acquisitions of Seth Curry, Danny Green

Daryl Morey explains why the Philadelphia 76ers acquired Danny Green and Seth Curry.

The Philadelphia 76ers had quite the draft night on Wednesday. Led by the new President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey and general manager Elton Brand, the Sixers made a couple of big trades to help the roster move forward.

The team had so many issues on the offensive end of the floor trying to properly space for Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons and that was mostly due to a few questionable decisions in the 2019 offseason.

The team let Jimmy Butler go to the Miami Heat and they acquired Josh Richardson in a sign-and-trade situation and they then lost sharpshooter JJ Redick who was so important to what the team did on offense. They then signed big man Al Horford to a 4-year $109 million deal, but the fits from both players just did not work very well on the offensive end of the floor.

“Al Horford is a really good player,” Morey stated early Thursday morning via Zoom. “I know there’s been some buzz around fit and things like that, but honestly, we tried to sign him with my past team. I don’t like how that went down here, because he’s very good. Josh Richardson the same.”

So, Morey flipped Horford to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Danny Green and Terrance Ferguson and he then sent Richardson to the Dallas Mavericks for sharpshooter Seth Curry. The Curry acquisition is official so Morey could speak on him, but the Horford-Green deal is not yet complete so he could not officially talk about Green just yet.

“I think the theme of the night was with Seth Curry and I can’t really talk about that other player was to try and improve the fit,” explained Morey. “We went in with a goal of increasing our flexibility. The first move we did allowed the second move with Seth. If we don’t do the first one, then the second one isn’t possible. Having a truly elite shooter changes the dynamic for Ben and Joel.”

For Simmons and Embiid to thrive as they did in the past, they need the proper floor spacing. With these moves, the Sixers now have two elite shooters in Green and Curry who can provide the proper spacing the team now needs in order for them to succeed.

“Those who watch the Sixers up close and personal know that when Joel and Ben have had that, it’s actually insane how good those teams played when everyone was healthy,” Morey finished with. “That was really the theme for the night. Getting Seth, you could argue he’s the best shooter in the NBA. It’s really exciting.”

The hope now is that these new additions will help the team officially move forward and they can forget about a tough 2019-20 season where the team fell short of any expectations. [lawrence-related id=39258,39253,39250]

After acquiring Danny Green, Sixers are now out on a Zach LaVine trade

The Philadelphia 76ers are now out on Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine.

The Philadelphia 76ers made a big move on Wednesday in order to begin retooling their roster in order to get back on track following a tough 2019-20 season on the floor.

They made a big move by sending Al Horford to the Oklahoma City Thunder in order to acquire a shooter in Danny Green who will look to make a big impact on their spacing. The team signed Horford to a 4-year $109 million deal in the 2019 offseason, but his fit next to Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons was disastrous on the offensive end.

There was speculation that the Sixers would go after Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine. However, the addition of Green understandably puts those thoughts to bed.

According to Kyle Neubeck of The Philly Voice:

With rumors swirling about the potential for a Zach LaVine deal early in the day, there has been much speculation about what a trade for the Bulls’ perimeter-oriented scorer would take. A splash of cold water — a source tells PhillyVoice it’s not a deal the Sixers or the Bulls are currently discussing, despite some rumblings and reports to the contrary.

It makes sense that those talks are now dead. Philadelphia got rid of Horford’s contract and they also added a shooter in Green while also keeping their Round 1 pick in this 2020 draft on Wednesday. It is a solid start for new President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey as the Sixers look to retool the roster around Simmons and Embiid. [lawrence-related id=39200,39197,39191]

Thunder to trade Danny Green to Sixers for Al Horford and draft picks

Danny Green’s tenure with the Thunder has ended, technically, before it even began.

And just like that, Danny Green’s tenure with the Oklahoma City Thunder has come to an end, technically, before it even started.

On Sunday, news circulated that the Thunder would be trading Dennis Schroder to the Los Angeles Lakers for Green, as well as the rights to the player that the Lakers select with the 28th pick in the 2020 NBA Draft.

Nonetheless, on Wednesday — hours before the 2020 NBA Draft — ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the Thunder and Sixers agreed to a trade that will see Green sent to Philadelphia in exchange for Al Horford.

Because of a technicality, the Lakers and Thunder cannot officially consummate the Schroder-Green trade until after the draft, but that hasn’t stopped Presti from determining how to flip Green into some additional draft capital.

According to Wojnarowski, as apart of the trade, the Thunder will also send Terrance Ferguson to Philadelphia and will receive Horford, as well as a “lightly-protected” first-round draft pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Keith Pompey, the pick is protected from 1-6.

The Thunder will also receive the 34th pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, as well as the draft rights to Serbian point guard Vasilije Micic.

As a result of the trade, the Thunder will own three picks in the top 34 of the 2020 draft.

For the Sixers, the deal would appear to be the admission of a mistake, as the perception is that Philadelphia paid a heavy tax merely to offload Horford, who the club signed to a four-year, $109 million deal just last summer. It apparently took all of just one season for the club to conclusively determine that Horford didn’t fit with Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid.

For the Thunder, the deal will add to general manager Sam Presti’s war chest of draft picks. After a mesmerizing flurry of trades that saw, among other things, franchise mainstay Russell Westbrook dealt to the Houston Rockets, the Thunder now stand to have 17 first-round picks through the 2026 NBA Draft.

In all likelihood, the club has not yet finished, either.

Report: Sixers trading Al Horford, picks to Thunder for Danny Green

The Philadelphia 76ers have sent Al Horford to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for Danny Green.

The Philadelphia 76ers brought in Daryl Morey to be their new President of Basketball Operations to help them get back on track. The team had a tough 2019-20 season on the floor as their plan to go big did not work and it failed miserably.

As the NBA draft gets set to begin on Wednesday, they figured to be active on the trade market as teams get ready to improve their rosters. One name that has always been involved in trade rumors due to his bad fit was Al Horford.

Horford is a good player, but he did not fit next to Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons and Morey knew he had to get him out of there.

So, on Wednesday, Morey sent Horford, a first, and a second-round pick to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for veteran shooter Danny Green

As far as the picks are concerned, it is not the 21st pick in Wednesday’s draft. It is a lightly protected 2025 pick and the second-round pick is the 34th pick in this 2020 draft. Philadelphia is also receiving guard Terrence Ferguson.

On top of that, the Sixers are also sending the rights to Serbian point guard Vasilije Micic who the Sixers selected in 2014.

Green is a guy who has three championship rings on his resume and he is a guy who brings elite shooting to a team that desperately needs it. He is a career 40.0% shooter from deep and he has a ton of playoff experience that will be valuable moving forward. [lawrence-related id=39204,39200,39197]

Lakers looking at Milwaukee’s Wesley Matthews to replace Danny Green

The Los Angeles Lakers need to replace some 3-point shooting lost by trading Danny Green to Oklahoma City.

The Los Angeles Lakers are already making moves as the NBA enters what projects to be the most intense offseason week in league history. Ahead of Monday’s lifting of the trade moratorium, the Lakers have already agreed to a deal for Oklahoma City’s guard Dennis Schröder in exchange for veteran guard Danny Green and the No. 28 pick in Wednesday’s draft, according to multiple reports, including ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

While Lakers fans had plenty to say about Green during the postseason, he was still mostly solid on both ends and shot nearly 34 percent from the 3-point line on 5.5 attempts per game. They will need to replace what he gave, even if it was below the expectations of the Lakers, their fans and probably himself. So where do the Lakers turn for some 3 and D? Milwaukee Bucks veteran guard Wesley Matthews, according to Marc Stein of the New York Times.

Matthews is a career 38.1% shooter from the 3-point line and has shot over 36% from the 3-point line in each of the last two seasons. Matthews shot 39.5% from the 3-point line in the playoffs for the Bucks in 10 playoff games in the Orlando bubble. He also often took the task of guarding the best player on the opposing teams, even if he’s not as good in that role as he once was during his Jazz and Blazers days.

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Potential Spencer Dinwiddie suitor off the board

Multiple Western Conference contenders were reportedly interested in Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie.

When a recent report indicated multiple Western Conference contenders were interested in pursuing Spencer Dinwiddie, one team that came to mind was the Los Angeles Lakers.

The reining NBA champions — which also happens to be Dinwiddie’s childhood team — reportedly contacted the Brooklyn Nets about the guard back in February around the 2020 NBA trade deadline.

Of course, Dinwiddie stayed put, but his name has popped up frequently in the NBA trade rumor mill this offseason.

But it appears unlikely Dinwiddie will get the chance to suit up for the team he grew up cheering for in 2020-21.

The Lakers have “an agreement in principle on [a] deal” to completing a deal that would deliver them Oklahoma City Thunder guard Dennis Schroder, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic.

Charania is reporting the Thunder will receiver the No. 28 overall pick in this year’s draft, while ESPN‘s Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting Lakers guard Danny Green is also in the deal.

According to Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated, the Lakers also “explored a deal” for Milwaukee Bucks guard Eric Bledsoe.

Lakers free agency: Danny Green available in trade talks to interested teams

Los Angeles Lakers guard Danny Green, who signed a 2-year deal last summer, could be on the move after winning his 3rd championship.

The Los Angeles Lakers are projected to be pretty busy this offseason with a lot of free agents coming off the books and 29 other teams looking to knock them off top spot in the NBA. With a shorter offseason, adding more talent to help win games earlier in the season maybe even more important. So what are the Lakers going to do to improve?

One way would be trying to make a trade of some of their current role players for some new blood. One trade chip that could help the Lakers get better this offseason is shooting guard Danny Green. Green is slated to make $15.3 million next season and he is someone the Lakers are willing to discuss, according to SNY’s Ian Begley.

 Something to keep an eye on: per sources, the Lakers will discuss Danny Green trades with teams that have interest. It’s unclear if the Knicks would consider taking on Green’s deal, but they would have the cap space to absorb it f they decline the options they have on some of their veteran players,

The NBA trade moratorium is expected to be lifted on Monday.

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DeMar DeRozan connected to Los Angeles Lakers in potential Kuzma, Green deal

The Los Angeles Lakers are interested in bringing home the L.A. native and former USC standout, according to The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor.

The Los Angeles Lakers are looking to upgrade their roster and with a season ahead of them that will start only 71 days after they won a championship, they will likely need players who can do even more heavy lifting on the offensive end than they had this past season. With LeBron James very vocally not excited about the quick turnaround and the understandable fatigue at age 36, adding more offensive punch makes sense. It’s with this in mind that we present the latest trade rumor regarding the Lakers and San Antonio Spurs guard DeMar DeRozan.

According to The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor, the Lakers have shown interest in the four-time All-Star in a deal that would send Danny Green and Kyle Kuzma to the Spurs. Green, of course, won a championship with the Spurs and Kuzma made a fan out of Gregg Popovich at USA Basketball prior to suffering an ankle injury that bled into the past season.

Last season with the Spurs, DeRozan played 68 games, averaging 22 points, five rebounds, and 5.6 assists, the second-highest mark of his career behind his first season in San Antonio in 2018-19. DeRozan also had a career-best true shooting percentage of 60.3% last season, so while he hasn’t been named an All-Star in San Antonio, there’s a very real case that he’s gotten better both as a scorer and a passer, two things the Lakers can really improve on as a group, outside of LeBron and AD.

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Bronny James game vs. Emoni Bates to air Nov. 21 on Fox Sports 1

The showdown between Ypsi Prep and CBC will air on Fox Sports 1 on November 21.

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For a while, it was looking like the showdown between Emoni Bates’ Ypsi Prep and Bronny James CBC on Nov. 21 would be the biggest basketball news when it happens but even as it will now be happening in the midst of what projects to be a chaotic NBA free agency, the game is going to be broadcast to a national audience.

Adam Zagoria, writing for ZagsBlog, reported earlier this week that the Bates-Bronny showdown in Texas scheduled for a few days from now will air on Fox Sports 1. Bronny’s teammate Amari Bailey is the No. 4 ranked recruit in the class of 2022.

The game is part of a tournament that is sponsored, in part, by Lakers guard Danny Green. It remains to be seen whether LeBron himself will go to the game, or how many people will be allowed to watch the game, given the current state of the pandemic.

NBA free agency starts on Nov. 20 at 6 p.m. Eastern Time.

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Lakers among teams that could benefit from salary cap staying steady

The Los Angeles Lakers, like most teams in the NBA, will benefit greatly from the adjustments to the salary cap rules.

Earlier this week, the NBA’s Board of Governors ratified changes that were agreed to with the NBPA to make modifications to the current collective bargaining agreement. Among the very important developments that were agreed to, changes to the salary cap and luxury tax. Particularly, tax-paying teams will see their taxes decrease by whatever percentage the NBA loses revenue, basically not punishing teams for putting competitive teams on the floor while much of the league goes without fans.

While the Lakers do have plenty of cap space this season, they will be on the hook to sign Anthony Davis to a max extension and free-agent Kentavious Caldwell-Pope will also likely be looking for a raise, therefore pushing the Lakers up to the current cap and tax thresholds of $109.14 and $132.627 million repsectively.

So for the Lakers, who are likely doing better because of a championship, but likely won’t be able to have fans in Staples Center anytime soon, it’s also a financial relief for the Buss family to not have to pay any extra penalties for trying to mount a title defense.

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