The Sixers have stopped listening to trade inquiries on backup point guard T.J. McConnell, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reports.
McConnell has become the primary backup to Ben Simmons in the absence of Markelle Fultz, who hasn’t played the last three games. Fultz will see two specialists in New York this week to examine his ailing right shoulder.
With all the uncertainty surrounding Fultz, the organization knows they’ll need to rely more heavily on McConnell, Wojnarowski continues. A report earlier this month suggested that McConnell was one of the Sixers most likely to be traded but that was before McConnell rejoined the rotation.
McConnell’s $1.6MM contract for this season doesn’t become fully guaranteed until January 10th but that looks like a formality now. His stats have been modest over the last three games — 3.0 PPG and 1.7 APG in 15.7 MPG. He had a 16-point, 7-assist game off the bench against Memphis earlier this month when the Jimmy Butler deal was being finalized.
Despite turning away overtures for McConnell, the Sixers still expect Fultz to return and reclaim a backup role, Wojnarowski adds.
How about deal Brett Brown?
I think the Sixers win despite his incompetence!
What incompetent things has he done? Developed the 2nd best big man in the league? How bout his development of process players into legit rotation players around the league? Sure, he isn’t perfect, but to say he is incompetent makes you sound misinformed or like a straight up hater. If the sixers fired him, he would have a new coaching gig before he cleaned out his office. Sorry Mr. Colangelo, know one is buying your slant here…ps: sweet collar
Second best? Interesting to see your idea of rankings…
He’s not better than Jokic, so probably 2nd best
Second Best True Center. Davis and Towns can both excel at PF. I think the offense Embiid provides offsets the exceptional defense from Gobert, putting Gobert at 3.
And Embiid vs Jokic is close. Embiid has 12 more PPG, shoots better, has 3.5 more RPG, and more than double his BPG. Only thing he lacks is the passing.
link to landofbasketball.com
Head to Head he is.
1) AD, 2) Embiid, 3) Jokic would be my top 3. And I don’t think it’s very close between Embiid and Jokic. Jokic is definitely a better passer, but Embiid is a far superior rebounder, defender, and overall scorer
you down with ttp?
“Overtures?” I mean, what could McConnell really fetch? Big time over achiever but probably a third pg.
Delly parlayed that into 10M a year.
TJ has heart, miles and miles of heart.
He is the Shane Falco of the NBA
If a Western Conference contender was offering a 1st, i.e. a late 20s then I’d trade him today. If it’s a 2nd, then what’s the point they have like 3 of those next year anyway.
I’m not giving him more than the 1.6M he’s getting now tho.
$1.6mil is not a serious figure. If that’s it, they lose their best PG for the playoffs.