Trade Idea: Who Says No?

[Ed Monix]

Oklahoma: Simmons, Maxey

Philadelphia: Gilgeous-Alexander

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76ers

Embiid
Harris
Green
SGA
Curry

[celticsclay]

Oklahoma: Simmons, Maxey

Philadelphia: Gilgeous-Alexander

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76ers
Think okc would hang up pretty quick unless they really believed sga three point shooting this year permanent somehow. He is a few years younger and more importantly not a headcase. Also hard to picture simmons being happy in okc.
Embiid
Harris
Green
SGA
Curry

[Who]

Philly should say no. Maxey is having a great season for them. SGA is not worth giving up both Maxey and Simmons. A Simmons for SGA swap is a fair swap for both sides. Adding Maxey to the deal makes it heavily favoured for OKC.

[Sophomore]

Both would say no way for basketball reasons - and I’m not sure they could make the money work.

OKC says no because in SGA they have a 6’6” PG who scores at three levels and seems to thrive under pressure. He can be at the core of a team that makes a deep playoff run. They don’t trade him for an unstable, who-knows player who gets the yips in playoff games, refuses to shoot, and is now holding out - not even if you add a perfectly good but not great player who plays the same position (and is only 6’2”). They’d be giving up the best player in this trade - best in general, and best *for them* in particular.

Then add - Simmons and Maxey make almost $40 mill and SGA this year is about $5.5. I don’t know if OKc has the cap room to absorb all this salary (trade machine has SGA grayed out due to his exemption, but if you’re OKC do you tie up all that room to make Simmons your marquee guy? No way, no how.

Philly says no because Daryl Morey has a hard head and thinks that Simmons still commands all-NBA value on the trade market.

[todd_days_41]

Philly should say no. Maxey is having a great season for them. SGA is not worth giving up both Maxey and Simmons. A Simmons for SGA swap is a fair swap for both sides. Adding Maxey to the deal makes it heavily favoured for OKC.

I agree Sixers says no, but not that Simmons for SGA is a fair swap. No way OKC is doing that.

[BruceBanner18]

Philly says no.

Philly says no because once they add Maxey a lot more options open up to them. I think they will eventually do this because the can't waste a year of Embiid so the goal of getting an all star to win now makes sense. As the deadline approaches the assumption is Morey will add assets with the expectation of landing a Beal Lillard or Brown type player and one team will do it. Washington and Portland could do worse than a rebuild with Simmons, Maxey and picks. Boston could soft reset with more tradable assets to add to a Tatum, Simmons, Time Lord core.