2025 Offseason Free Agency Thread

[Stanford]

Those fan pages are cancer but he shouldn't be paying attention to them.

[FireMorey]

I pity Paul George. He does not know the Sixers motto is "It can and will always get worse." Murphy's Law is the one rule of law of that franchise.

[Negrodamus]

Embiid commenting on the quality of the reporting for his story in the ESPN article was kinda funny to me. I like to think he spends his free time grading articles like he's part of the Pulitzer jury.

[Stanford]

Embiid commenting on the quality of the reporting for his story in the ESPN article was kinda funny to me. I like to think he spends his free time grading articles like he's part of the Pulitzer jury.

I think it was just a shot at Marcus Hayes. He followed it up by saying that most of the writers are good at their jobs, but some are terrible.

[the_process]

We all get excited by a 60 sec workout hype video, Morey is mishandling a contract negotiation, and a young star guard gets injured the day before media day…we are on pace to hit Sixers bingo in record time this year.

He's not mishandling it, as much as I don't like Morey.

They just drafted Grimes' replacement 3rd overall. VJ needs PT. They also do not want to be a tax payer because Jo is completely unreliable and PG and McCain are already hurt and so they are not even a pretender.

Expectations need to be tempered. The team is simply hoping to make the play-in.

[ankle420breaker]

no seriously we have to clean house on the training staff

at some point you just gotta...I am sure Kevin Johnson is a nice man and knows his stuff but come the **** on

I've met KJ, and he is nice. A little weird, but nice.

That said, this organization clearly holds him to no performance standards. We've been long overdue for a new head trainer.

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[sixers hoops]

We all get excited by a 60 sec workout hype video, Morey is mishandling a contract negotiation, and a young star guard gets injured the day before media day…we are on pace to hit Sixers bingo in record time this year.

He's not mishandling it, as much as I don't like Morey.

They just drafted Grimes' replacement 3rd overall. VJ needs PT. They also do not want to be a tax payer because Jo is completely unreliable and PG and McCain are already hurt and so they are not even a pretender.

Expectations need to be tempered. The team is simply hoping to make the play-in.

I think they are handling the Grimes negotiations perfectly. Overpaying him would be mishandling it. Grimes has the right to wait until Oct 1 before taking the qualifying offer. Just because Grimes has, what many feel is, an overinflated idea of his value, doesn’t mean the Sixers should overpay him.

And the McCain injury doesn’t change the Sixers position at all. If the Sixers believe in Maxey and VJ, they don’t need to tie up cap space overpaying Grimes. If they believe Grimes is a star, then offer him more, but I think they just believe he is a nice player who they feel they made a fair offer.

[M2J]

Yeah pretty far apart

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/25252963-quentin-grimes-offered-39m-contract-76ers-agent-says-he-wants-20m-year

Sub 10 mil vs 20 mil annual.

I don't know where this goes, but hopefully if they really get into negotiations sixers are willing to go up to 14ish annually.

Grimes is in a bad situation honestly. Dallas traded him because they didn't want to pay him. I can't away at the end of the year thinking they were going to offer him 9ish million, but that was when I hoped they'd keep yabu as well and need to pay him 9 million. Morey playing it tough because team could just play VJ, Jared, and stick Quentin in a corner and let grimes value tank again this season because he's unproven in the role they need him for

[ProcessDoctor]

Eason is unlikely to extend in Houston. The universe is begging us to pursue him.

Fischer is the OG source quoted by RealGM, but I don't have access to the full article.

https://marcstein.substack.com/p/the-latest-on-jonathan-kuminga-quentin

[sixers hoops]

Yeah pretty far apart

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/25252963-quentin-grimes-offered-39m-contract-76ers-agent-says-he-wants-20m-year

Sub 10 mil vs 20 mil annual.

I don't know where this goes, but hopefully if they really get into negotiations sixers are willing to go up to 14ish annually.

Grimes is in a bad situation honestly. Dallas traded him because they didn't want to pay him. I can't away at the end of the year thinking they were going to offer him 9ish million, but that was when I hoped they'd keep yabu as well and need to pay him 9 million. Morey playing it tough because team could just play VJ, Jared, and stick Quentin in a corner and let grimes value tank again this season because he's unproven in the role they need him for

And that is all agent spin. He is in desperation mode. His client’s value isn’t near what he wants so he trying to put pressure on the organization. He is requesting that they move the qualifying offer out to Oct 8. The Sixers are fine with him taking the qualifying offer, and he is hoping something develops. If he wants to bet on himself, then take the qualifying offer. He can’t force the Sixers to value him more over the next week.

[FireMorey]

I beg this franchise to be a normal franchise for just once. We've changed players, we've changed coaches, we've changed GMs. There's only one thing left to change. It's always something with this team every year. Whether it's injuries, controversies, negotiating drama, tampering punishments, mismanaging players, whatever else. I guess such is life in an organization where your owner only cares about the football team that he owns.

[sixers hoops]

I beg this franchise to be a normal franchise for just once. We've changed players, we've changed coaches, we've changed GMs. There's only one thing left to change. It's always something with this team every year. Whether it's injuries, controversies, negotiating drama, tampering punishments, mismanaging players, whatever else. I guess such is life in an organization where your owner only cares about the football team that he owns.

Generally, I prefer a hands-off owner. Pro sports are littered with owners who destroy their teams. It’s best to let the professionals they hired do their job. However, when the owner isn’t holding those people accountable, you can be left with a mess.

Morey is responsible and not really accountable for the tampering.

Morey is responsible and not held accountable for signing players with massive injury histories to long-term deals.

Morey has lied about players injuries several times and has not been held accountable.

Jerry Colangelo was forced on this organization, who ran out Hinkie to put his son in charge, and Harris signed off on it.

The Ben Simmons stuff I felt the organization did what was in their best interest. Same with James Harden. Same with Grimes. It’s a negotiating strategy to try to make teams uncomfortable and give in to their demands. I give Morey credit for taking the heat to do what is best for the organization.

I’m fine with the negotiation stuff. That is part of negotiating in the best interest of your organization. I would rather have angry players who are mad that they aren’t getting overpaid, then have more bloated contracts.

[Negrodamus]

I really think the equation changed with Grimes for Morey and the FO when they drafted Edgecombe. The cost of having Maxey, McCain, Edgecombe and then investing a sizable chunk in an average sized SG was not a major priority to them. I think they're at peace in having him play out his contract and letting him walk next offseason.

[the_process]

I really think the equation changed with Grimes for Morey and the FO when they drafted Edgecombe. The cost of having Maxey, McCain, Edgecombe and then investing a sizable chunk in an average sized SG was not a major priority to them. I think they're at peace in having him play out his contract and letting him walk next offseason.

100%.

[the_process]

Grimes is going to accept the 1 year 10M deal (or whatever it is exactly) and waive his NTC IMO. He's got another 36 hours or so until it's official. It's more interesting to see if the Dubs finally just trade Kuminga to SAC.

In other news, Pablo is not letting go of Ballmer and the Clippers. He's doing the law firm's work for them Ballmer was giving money to the owner of Aspiration personally? Even Dave Silver can't ignore this.

[Iverson Armband]

I see Grimes as being able to play the 3. Don’t think Edgecombe has anything to do with that. This team still has no reliable wings.

[fkd215]

Wasn't the whole rationale for giving a lowball offer to Yabu that they needed to save financial flexibility for the Grimes negotiatons? If they weren't going to pay Grimes, I wish they had made a decent offer to Yabu.

Also, their stance on not paying Grimes and Yabu tells me that the front office has very low expectations for this season.

[Negrodamus]

Wasn't the whole rationale for giving a lowball offer to Yabu that they needed to save financial flexibility for the Grimes negotiatons? If they weren't going to pay Grimes, I wish they had made a decent offer to Yabu.

Also, their stance on not paying Grimes and Yabu tells me that the front office has very low expectations for this season.

I think they don't want to be paying Grimes $20 mil a year to be a 13ppg scorer. We know what he can be when the bottom has fallen out on the season, but there's also more data to show he's a sub 10ppg player prior to his time with the Sixers.

I think they'd be interested in taking a chance on him coming into his own if they didn't draft Edgecombe. Even then, he'd be battling with Maxey and McCain for on ball time and then he still needs to defer to Embiid and PG as a scorer. He needs another team, tbh.

[sodmoraes]

That was one of the reasons i was hoping we drafted Bailey, since we already had a nice SG with Grimes. After VJ he became redundant.

[the_process]

That was one of the reasons i was hoping we drafted Bailey they traded down, since we already had a nice SG with Grimes. After VJ he became redundant.

FIFY.