Famous NBA

Chapter 122 Here Comes Josh Richardson
April 7

"While no decision has been made on whether to play another season, my family and I do not want to leave San Antonio."

The 76ers' plan to poach Ginobili came to an end when Ginobili himself refused.

The 76ers, who failed in both PlanA and PlanB, received a call at this time.

"Saric?" Schlenk's assistant had passed the news that James Johnson was overweight to Schlenk's desk.

"Josh Richardson." The failure to supplement the No. 2 position made the 76ers shift their attention to the Heat's Richardson again.

"Give me another first round"

"Saric was originally the No. 12 pick, and you are short of No. 4, so you should give me two second-round picks." Riley is interested in Saric, and Schlenk naturally wants to increase his offer.

"Saric hasn't played a game in the NBA, and Josh has played for one season and proved that he can fulfill the tasks given by the coach very well, so you should give compensation."

"Richardson is just a substitute, a second-round pick. Do you think such a player can compare to the talent of the 12th pick in the first round?"

The two sides have been emphasizing each other's immediate combat power and talent, making this conversation last for a long time
"*****" While chatting with Riley, Schlenk handed his assistant a note,
"Ok" Seeing the assistant's ok gesture, Schlenk ended the call with no result for the time being.

"Sir, James Johnson's agent gave us the news that they rejected our one-year 1 million verbal agreement."

"What? Rejected." James Johnson's market price was lower than that, Riley knew very well,

Shams: James Johnson reached a one-year, $1 million deal with Philadelphia (of which $520 is an easy bonus)
"Shit" Because of the forced retention of Whiteside, the Heat, who have no salary space, can only pick up bargains now, but the bargains they fancy are picked up by local tyrants.

"What about other plans?"

"They didn't want to come." The money was all given to Whiteside, and naturally no one wanted to come to such a team with not much money but many rules.

"I agreed."

Shams: Philadelphia 76ers send Saric's signing rights to Miami Heat for Josh Richardson + 2023 second round pick (31-55 pick protection)

The Philadelphia 76ers currently have the most salary space of 5289 million (Marshall's verbal commitment to send away has been reached)
(Note: Saric’s signing rights are worth 0 in this transaction, which is equivalent to the 76ers swallowing Josh Richardson’s contract with salary space)
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April 7

With the end of the freeze period in July, the teams began to complete the intentions reached during the freeze period

While the 76ers completed the Josh Richardson deal, they also reached a three-year minimum salary contract with Van Fleet, who was selected with the 59th pick.

Also signed two short contracts of 1 million for one year and 562.8 million for one year with Galle Temple and James Johnson reached during the freezing period.

Of course, Marshall, who had agreed long ago, was also sent to the Utah Jazz in exchange for two future second-round picks + some cash and the right to sign an unknown player.
With the big names and excellent role players in the trading market almost all divided up, ESPN began to analyze the ownership of the 16-17 championship:

"Today is the analysis article. The protagonist of the first issue of the analysis article is the Philadelphia 76ers who reached the Eastern Conference Finals last season."

First look, they are different from a few months ago

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得到：托里恩普林斯（今年第12号新秀）帕斯卡尔.西亚卡姆（今年第23号新秀）马尔科姆布罗格登（今年第26号新秀）范弗利特（今年第59号新秀）伊利亚索瓦（由杰拉米格兰特交易中获得）约什理查德森（萨里奇交易中从热火获得）坦普尔（1年562.8万）詹姆斯约翰逊（1年520万）博格丹.博格丹诺维奇（2号签中的交易获得）

"The Philadelphia 76ers have a very large turnover in the summer, but they didn't have any contact with the big names, except that Young and Durant played in New York for a few days." Holding the second most salary space, the Philadelphia 76ers are the quietest team in the free market.

After a surprise run to the Eastern Conference Finals last season, the Philadelphia 76ers have gotten the message they wanted:
Surrounding the Yangjian team can make it out of the East
So in the off-season, they focused on collaborating with the supporting team to give Yang supplementary support. After all, last season gave Yang very little.

The No. 12 signing of Taurean Prince is Philadelphia's supplement to LeBron James' wheel battle. Although Young can resist LeBron James, doing so is too much of a waste of Young's energy.

Although Josh Richardson's 28.8% three-point shooting with the ball is really unsatisfactory, but 41.1% of the three-point shooting is a qualified fixed-point shooter, especially since the end of last season, he has begun to polish the pick-and-roll with the ball.

The arrival of Ilyasova has provided Philadelphia with the possibility of pick-and-roll outside rolls. He has been battle-tested and has more deterrence than Jay Michael Green who took on this job last season.
The reason for complementing James Johnson is to add hardness to Philadelphia. There were too many good men in Philadelphia last season, and it was too dangerous for Young to act as a villain.

Siakam, the 23rd pick, is a fledgling embryo. It makes sense for Philadelphia to choose it. It is very likely that he will bet on superstars after training.

I didn't understand the significance of signing Temple. The players from the Washington Wizards always feel that their... "The commentator was vague when it came to players from the Washington Wizards.

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As well as Philadelphia's guard line, McConnell is only suitable as the second or third point guard. Do you expect Brogdon, the No. 26 pick, to play the leading role?
Of course, there is the most important thing, how is Embiid doing? If he can reach the All-Star immediate combat power, Philadelphia should make a big move to win the championship next summer. "

"According to the news from the Philadelphia 76ers, Embiid will not play in the summer league. They have to do load management on him recovering from a major injury."

"Load Management!"

"A novel word"

"Philadelphia should let Brogdon play the leading role. In these summer league games, he has been used as a shooting guard to serve as the point guard. The effect is not bad so far. The passing and control rhythm is given priority, and the efficiency of shooting spots is also good."

My guess for the Philadelphia 76ers' starting lineup is

Brogdon, Josh Richardson, Covington, Young, Embiid.

Brogdon controls the rhythm and initiates the pick-and-roll, the third part of the ball after eating Young and Embiid

Josh Richardson focuses on guards and assists fixed-point shooters. If Philadelphia's running-in and record are not troublesome, he can even cut some pick-and-roll initiations and back-ups to eat weak defenders for him.
Covington mainly entangles the opposing striker, and the offense uses air cuts to the basket to attack the front field. After all, Covington is the one who eats the least output in Philadelphia's starting lineup.

In the new season, Young can be liberated from the chief pick-and-roll initiator and chief post-up single player, and can run more screen-through three-pointers and pick-and-roll screeners who rarely played last season. Of course, Philadelphia's chief face-up single hitter is still on Young's shoulders.

In the end, it's Embiid. If he can give Young enough scoring support, I predict that Philadelphia can play a series with the Golden State Warriors this season.

Also, everyone, don't forget that Philadelphia still has 5000 million+ salary space

They can at least go to a 7-9 year superstar.

(End of this chapter)