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geiger wrote:I still don't see anything about Rush signing here.

geiger wrote:I still don't see anything about Rush signing here.

As for Evans and Green - their contracts lead them to have negative trade values. Not only will we find a hard time getting anything in return for them, we might have to give something else up just to get someone to take one of those players. I think Evans as a PF, has more value than Green, but he has a worse contract as well. Who wants to pay $5 million a year for 3 years to such a limited role player? If he was a center, sure - as an undersized PF who can't score - not so much. That's why I think Orlando is one of the few teams that might have interest so long as we kick in $3 million in the trade to cover part of Evans's 3rd year contract.

The Guilty Party wrote:I e-mailed Jasner to see if he knows anything about this.

Sorry but you'll have to wait for my scoop in tomorrow's paper just like everyone else!

The Guilty Party wrote:but like Ivey, it won't be announced until after the Iguodala situation is resolved.

ckchen wrote:

geiger wrote:I still don't see anything about Rush signing here.

As for Evans and Green - their contracts lead them to have negative trade values. Not only will we find a hard time getting anything in return for them, we might have to give something else up just to get someone to take one of those players. I think Evans as a PF, has more value than Green, but he has a worse contract as well. Who wants to pay $5 million a year for 3 years to such a limited role player? If he was a center, sure - as an undersized PF who can't score - not so much. That's why I think Orlando is one of the few teams that might have interest so long as we kick in $3 million in the trade to cover part of Evans's 3rd year contract.

Why are we even discussing trying to trade Evans and Green when we basically all agree they have no trade value. We only have 10 players under contract people - just because we signed Brand doesn't make Evans useless - and we certainly don't have a ton of guards. We shouldn't be talking about trading them at all - last time I checked we still need to field a team of 12 guys minimum - so it's not like we need the roster space so we can sign even worse, marginal players for the NBA minimum to take their places on the roster. For all of their faults, both WG and Evans have value to the Sixers, and frankly, because of their veteran experience, will probably play ahead of rookies like Speights or even Jason Smith. If they don't - they become the 11th and 12th men on the bench, fine. But if we agree they have no trade value - we shouldn't even be talking about trading them - especially now when you're talking about adding in additional assets just to be rid of them.

They are both professional and good character guys - why are some people on this board insistent on trying to dump them regardless of the cost to us? I'd rather WG and Evans on my team than 99% of the UDFA scrubs and washed out NBA FAs out there.

STChaser wrote:Agreed. But I brought those two names up because they appear to be spare parts and we NEED a backup 3 and perhaps backup 5. If you look at the depth, we have a possible PG in Lou behind Miller. We now have Green, Ivey, and potentially Rush backing up Iguodala. We only have Iguodala (who's already a starter) backing up Thaddeus; We have Speights, Evans, and Smith backing up Brand, and we have only Smith to back up Sam - I don't see Speights as a 5. That being the case, I would rather jettison some of our extra pieces for more urgent needs.

Again, I LIKE Evans. But my concern is that Evans is going to take Speights' minutes and I see Speights as being able to contribute now, regardless of what has been said by the front office.

The Guilty Party wrote:I e-mailed Jasner to see if he knows anything about this.

sixers hoops wrote:

geiger wrote:while he likes to pretend that he broke the news on Brand, he didn't talk about it until it was all over ESPN as a possibility. Once it was out there, he merely confirmed what was reported in the national media from the team, to which he has access as a local reporter. He then took credit for "breaking" it - which in his world means being the first WIP jerk-off to actually mention it on the radio.

This is not accurate. He did report it well before ESPN. I just happened to be listening that evening because it was close to the signing period and he reported it, I posted it on another forum prior to ESPN evening mentioning it. I would have made a thread here at realgm, but I didn't really believe and just mentioned it on another forum during a conversation.

I though we realistically had no shot at Brand and didn't take it very seriously, but he was the first to mention it when it was assumed by all that a Josh Smith offer was imminent.

Nonetheless, I am not assuming that Rush is already part of the team, but there is nothing to discuss anyway so we may as well give opinions IF it is true.