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CAMDEN, N.J. -- The Philadelphia 76ers are looking to move on after an uneventful trade deadline on their part. The Sixers moved promising second-year guard Jared McCain to the Oklahoma City Thunder and 18-year veteran Eric Gordon to the Memphis Grizzlies as Philadelphia found financial and roster flexibility for the future.
As the Sixers now move forward, President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey will look to attack the buyout market as his next avenue of finding a way to improve the team. The Sixers are always looking for ways to improve the team and the buyout market is their next option as guys like Cam Thomas and Haywood Highsmith are at the forefront in terms of options.
"I think we're in the mix," Morey said without giving any indication on who the Sixers are looking at. "I think they see a really good team or a really good market. We've had a lot of conversations already. We're obviously in competition with other teams, so I don't know if we'll get the first option necessarily, but we'll be in there with getting some of the top options."
At the moment, the Sixers have some roster spots to fill. They, obviously, signed Charles Bassey and Patrick Baldwin Jr. to 10-day contracts, but Philadelphia will need to fill those spots when those 10-day deals expire.
"I mean, we have two to fill," Morey explained. "Obviously, (Dominick) Barlow was one of the signings. I think balancing it out with guard and wing might—we really want to go for best player. I mean, obviously that sounds trite, but that's true."
With the deadline done and over with, Morey and the Sixers still need to fill out the back end of the roster. The front office will now have to look at other avenues to fill those spots.
"You do want to focus on a little roster balance in terms of adding this deadline," Morey added. "We thought, yeah, backfilling Paul (George) was a possible spot while he was out, but—I hate to repeat it again, the operative players that were available weren't adding in a way that was material out to what teams wanted us to give up for him."
The deadline did not produce any additions like Morey and the Sixers were hoping for, but the hope now is that the buyout market will give Philadelphia the players it's looking for.
This article originally appeared on Sixers Wire: Daryl Morey discusses buyout market as Sixers move on after deadline
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As the Sixers now move forward, President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey will look to attack the buyout market as his next avenue of finding a way to improve the team. The Sixers are always looking for ways to improve the team and the buyout market is their next option as guys like Cam Thomas and Haywood Highsmith are at the forefront in terms of options.
"I think we're in the mix," Morey said without giving any indication on who the Sixers are looking at. "I think they see a really good team or a really good market. We've had a lot of conversations already. We're obviously in competition with other teams, so I don't know if we'll get the first option necessarily, but we'll be in there with getting some of the top options."
At the moment, the Sixers have some roster spots to fill. They, obviously, signed Charles Bassey and Patrick Baldwin Jr. to 10-day contracts, but Philadelphia will need to fill those spots when those 10-day deals expire.
"I mean, we have two to fill," Morey explained. "Obviously, (Dominick) Barlow was one of the signings. I think balancing it out with guard and wing might—we really want to go for best player. I mean, obviously that sounds trite, but that's true."
With the deadline done and over with, Morey and the Sixers still need to fill out the back end of the roster. The front office will now have to look at other avenues to fill those spots.
"You do want to focus on a little roster balance in terms of adding this deadline," Morey added. "We thought, yeah, backfilling Paul (George) was a possible spot while he was out, but—I hate to repeat it again, the operative players that were available weren't adding in a way that was material out to what teams wanted us to give up for him."
The deadline did not produce any additions like Morey and the Sixers were hoping for, but the hope now is that the buyout market will give Philadelphia the players it's looking for.
This article originally appeared on Sixers Wire: Daryl Morey discusses buyout market as Sixers move on after deadline
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