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The Detroit Pistons have claimed Paul Reed off waivers. Reed will enter Year 2 of a three-year, $24 million contract signed with the Utah Jazz in 2023 that was subsequently matched by the Philadelphia 76ers. The Sixers waived Reed in order to create additional cap space.

Reed appeared in all 82 games last season with the Sixers, averaging 7.3 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 19.4 minutes.

Via Shams Charania/The Athletic

Cap implications?

Why? This guy is a minimum player at best. They should’ve let him become a free agent and signed him to the minimum on a guaranteed four year deal. That still would’ve been less than what they will now pay him this season. Nobody was picking up this bum’s contract.

elmdawgg69 wrote:Why? This guy is a minimum player at best. They should’ve let him become a free agent and signed him to the minimum on a guaranteed four year deal. That still would’ve been less than what they will now pay him this season. Nobody was picking up this bum’s contract.

There’s a chance he wouldn’t want to come play for the Pistons once he became a free agent. Now they secure his services for the next 2 years.

Revived wrote:

elmdawgg69 wrote:Why? This guy is a minimum player at best. They should’ve let him become a free agent and signed him to the minimum on a guaranteed four year deal. That still would’ve been less than what they will now pay him this season. Nobody was picking up this bum’s contract.

There’s a chance he wouldn’t want to come play for the Pistons once he became a free agent. Now they secure his services for the next 2 years.

lol well then he’d be playing in China if that were the case.

elmdawgg69 wrote:

Revived wrote:

elmdawgg69 wrote:Why? This guy is a minimum player at best. They should’ve let him become a free agent and signed him to the minimum on a guaranteed four year deal. That still would’ve been less than what they will now pay him this season. Nobody was picking up this bum’s contract.

There’s a chance he wouldn’t want to come play for the Pistons once he became a free agent. Now they secure his services for the next 2 years.

lol well then he’d be playing in China if that were the case.

Naw... Players don't go straight from playing 1,500 minutes on an NBA contender to playing in China. Reed might be a role player, but he's an NBA level role player.

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Pickled Prunes wrote:

elmdawgg69 wrote:

Revived wrote:There’s a chance he wouldn’t want to come play for the Pistons once he became a free agent. Now they secure his services for the next 2 years.

lol well then he’d be playing in China if that were the case.

Naw... Players don't go straight from playing 1,500 minutes on an NBA contender to playing in China. Reed might be a role player, but he's an NBA level role player.

And didn’t he go off for a crazy game against Jokic when Embiid didn’t play? Almost led them to victory lol.

Wasn’t Nick Nurse supposed to coach up Reed to new levels? That was the big talk heading into last season.

Jabroni Lames wrote:Wasn’t Nick Nurse supposed to coach up Reed to new levels? That was the big talk heading into last season.

And wanted to develop him into a "Siakam like" player....

Risk Addict wrote:Cap implications?

Huge for Philly. They don't wind up with any dead cap now.

StlHawksFan wrote:

Risk Addict wrote:Cap implications?

Huge for Philly. They don't wind up with any dead cap now.

He was non-guaranteed, that money was off of Philly's cap as soon as they released him, regardless of if anyone picked him up or not.

In fact, the Pistons could just release him in December and he'd be off their books for the remaining part of the year and next year too.

It's just a unique contract in that regard, so Detroit claiming him had no effect on Philly's cap.

TimeisIllmatic wrote:

Jabroni Lames wrote:Wasn’t Nick Nurse supposed to coach up Reed to new levels? That was the big talk heading into last season.

And wanted to develop him into a "Siakam like" player....

Nick Nurse is so overrated, it's hilarious. He can't develop Reed and forgets about using Buddy Hield in the playoffs until it's too late. His team performs worse than Doc Rivers against an injury riddled Knicks squad... and people still praise him. It's wild. Never seen anything like it. He's the Teflon Coach.

Nurse needs a super-stacked team, and a lot of injury luck to his opponents, to win in the playoffs.