Ever since signing a 5 year, 180-million-dollar contract with the Sixers back in 2019, many have called it one of the worst contracts in the NBA, and one that severely limited the Sixers flexibility in cap. He was taking up a bunch of cap space, and his contract was so big that few teams would be willing to trade for him.
However, this is Harris’ last year in the deal, making him an expiring player. He’s due just over 39 million for this season, and re-building teams or teams looking to increase their cap greatly in the next off-season may have interest in trading Harris. On the Sixers part, they could trade Harris for a few young role-players to help with their roster. And for those of you that think that this is unlikely to happen: the Lakers were able to pull this off when they traded away Westbrook following the deadline.
So given that Harris is now on an expiring contract, does that make him a valuable trade asset?
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The Sixers should just trade Embiid to the Knicks for picks and restart the process. They ain’t winning this season.
No, they’re stuck with him and just have to hope he plays better than he has
No tobi is good but he is overpaid and isn’t anything super special imo. He has a nice skillset but it isn’t exactly what teams want, he would be more valuable if he was just an elite 3 and d guy.
Russ is name brand, even with his poor performance. Tobias is not. I think he could have an aaron gordon role on a contender though
He literally just was an Aaron Gordon role, just Joker makes his teammates better than Embiid does and Aaron Gordon didn’t have Doc Rivers as a coach.
Lmfao Russell Westbrook didn’t get traded because he had a “name brand”, that’s fucking hilarious though
The “name brand” was the picks attached to Russ. Why the fuck would a team take a player because of his “name brand”
He’s making too much money to be valuable, even as an expiring. He is a good player, though.
Maybe Nick can nurse him back to fairly paid value
Not valuable, but no NBA contract/player is un-tradeable.
no NBA contract/player is un-tradeable
This has been my belief ever since seeing Joe Johnson get traded in 2012, with 4 years left of what was considered an albatross contract
Yeah, 5 years ago.
You know Russ got waived right after getting traded right? So Russ the player was useless, his role in the trade was just his 45m salary. Basically Russ was an human version of 45m TPE that actually cost the other team money. So worse than a real TPE. The player himself has no value or negative value.
I’d imagine the same with Tobias Harris
😂 now we are delineating between contract and player per value. Value is value.
The value is from the pick attached not from Russ. Is it that hard to understand? If the player got waived right after the trade how do you say he has any value?
Easily. He didn’t fit their plans. Simple Enough. Then he went and played elsewhere right? He did play the season right? Right?
It’s like talking to a brick. Good luck to you
Not really, but a team like the Bulls could send you Demar and Lonzo and look to max out someone like Siakam with their capspace, I guess.
But more likely Philly just keeps Harris, lets him expire, trades some 2nds to get off of Tucker’s last year (or even a protected first and gets some 2nds back, someone like the Wizards would jump on this) and goes into the summer with Embiid, Reed, Maxey’s cap hold and 75M in cap room to try to find 4 more rotation guys around those 3. Maybe Melton gets extended and it’s like 60M to find 2 guys and they just roll with a top 6 and look for depth later, maybe move their 2024 1st on draft day for a cheap rotation guy like Caruso or Caleb Martin and then if you keep Melton at 14M per that’s like 50M to go after DeRozan/OG/Siakam/Klay as a 3rd star, could be just about swingable.
They should trade Harris for Jerami Grant. Portland will need a couple first round picks but they would do it. Salaries would work.
Something like this is the only real way that trading Harris makes sense.
[SHAMS BURNER] Morey wants 5 1st rp, 10 1st rd swaps, 3 young stars, 4 3&d players on rookie contracts and blow job for a Harden and Tobias package.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a trade with Tobi and Harden going to the Clippers.
76ers get a lot of pieces to put around Maxey and Embiid. Tradeable contracts.
A third team like my Mavs facilitating part of it.
Sixers fucked up majorly by picking Tobias over Jimmy. That bad choice has haunted them ever since…
Dude is a bum