The Nets won’t have any cap room this summer, but they can upgrade the roster by using their three trade exceptions, writes Kristian Winfield of The New York Daily News. Brooklyn owns an $11.3MM exception from the James Harden trade with the Sixers, a $6.3MM exception from a deal that sent DeAndre Jordan to the Pistons and a $3.3MM TPE from the Spencer Dinwiddie trade with the Mavericks.
Winfield suggests using the largest exception, along with Philadelphia’s 2027 first-round pick and the Nets’ second-rounder in 2029, to acquire Spurs wing Josh Richardson, and notes that the smaller exceptions could be valuable as rival teams try to clear cap space in advance of free agency.
Winfield shares other ideas for the Nets’ offseason, such as targeting Joe Ingles with the taxpayer mid-level exception and looking for bargains with minimum-salary contracts such as Ben McLemore, Markieff Morris, Danuel House, Isaiah Hartenstein, Bismack Biyombo and Hassan Whiteside.
There’s more on the Nets:
- Kyrie Irving has been difficult for management to handle since he signed with Brooklyn in 2019, according to Stefan Bondy of The New York Daily News. A source tells Bondy that Irving, who only played 20 games in his first season with the Nets because of a shoulder issue, disappeared from the team and didn’t communicate with the front office about the condition of his shoulder as he looked for second opinions.
- Steve Nash is expected to return as head coach next season, but he could have a much different staff working for him. Amar’e Stoudemire is leaving his position as a player development assistant, and David Vanterpool isn’t expected back either, Marc Stein states in his latest article for Substack. Vanterpool recently interviewed for the Hornets’ head coaching job.
- Neither team benefited much from the blockbuster deal headlined by Harden and Ben Simmons, but the Sixers appear to be worse shape than the Nets, observes Brian Lewis of The New York Post. Brooklyn at least has roster stability with Simmons under contract for three more seasons. Philadelphia is facing a difficult decision on how to handle an extension for Harden, who could make nearly $270MM in a five-year max deal.
$270MM is crazy
Barkley said 76ers will regret on Harden deal
Attaching 2023 and 2028 unprotected First is also crazy
I don’t think the Sixers have any intention of keeping Harden, unless he takes a significantly less than max deal ($25m/yr at most, and I wouldn’t even do that). If they let him go, essentially they’ve just rid themselves of the Simmons headache at the cost of some picks. They’ll still be OK . Best case would be an extend-and-trade but I dunno if there are any chumps out there willing to do it. Maybe if they add Maxey they can get a good player back.
One gets the feeling that basketball was never really Harden’s priority, that he’s about his own needs and will never play in a place he doesn’t want to be. I think he may retire sooner than people think.
Simmons was a valuable trade chip, but Morey had to have a “star.” CJ McCollum plus getting picks would look immensely better for the 76ers right now than Harden and losing picks, no?
Correct, the answer is no
The proposed WCJ and Ross deal is illegal. You can’t combine Curry’s 8M with the TPE to match WCJ’s 14M. Since Claxton has to be signed and traded, he only counts as 5M outgoing for the Nets, and that’s not enough to match Ross’s 12M.
It sounded like a stupid trade anyways tbh
Honestly I don’t think either team(sixers or nets) are in good shape going forward. KD is older and has had injury issues, who knows what Irving is thinking day to day). Sixers have a Harden issue.
Reporters say both teams are in bad shape but 76ers are in worse shape
Rivers and Harden look terrible shape to me
It’s a good thing that the Nets have Simmons under contract for three more seasons? Do they have any indication that he’ll play in any of them?
Reporters believe that Simmons contract are better than Harden next contract
By comparison, it is a better thing
Harden won’t take 5~year $150 million but 5-year $180+ million contract
Reporters believe, the BEARD will sign a contract favorable to the Sixers and will benefit from a full summer not rehabbing. Simmons is a head case ,case closed.
The only case that is closed is Philly’s chance to win this year.
I remember you were riding Simmons’ n**s all year before the trade, talkin bout “Big Ben will come back” “Big Ben this, Big Ben that”. Now you’re hanging off Harden’s beard lmao. This Sixers team will never make it out of the second round just like all the Process teams before them, case closed.
I thought it was reported at the time of the trade that Harden had agreed to opt in to his final year as part of the deal but couldn’t officially do so until after the season. Thus giving the Sixers one more year to evaluate. I think anyone with eyes knows a max deal going forward only happens if Morey is getting back a percentage under the table mafia style.
Scariest thing is that Harden opts out and walks for nothing.
any threat?
What a mess in Philly!
Trading for harden was worth the risk. You fail if you don’t try. Expect a “Chris Paul” type of deal for Harden.
Nets would he better off trading Kyrie. But who would take him. I still believe in Ben and KD as Forwards. Nets definitely have decisions to make.
In what World would Josh Richardson be worth a 1st and 2nd round pick, in any trade, but particularly one in which the team trading him doesn’t need to take back a player-? The last two times Richardson was traded suggest he wouldn’t cost more than using the TPE, if that.
Sixers are way better off without that wussy
I will pay Sean Marks how ever much money he wants if it means he never trades any of our picks ever again. Especially for Josh freaking Richardson