Sixers offseason

[reese125]

i dont care what he does on his off-nights stud--everyone has them. look at the avg numbers and what he adds as a plus to AI's numbers.

Nobodys saying that hes phenomenal anymore, but he did what hes supposed to do.  If the Sixers had some go-to guys, any defensive help and went deep in the playoffs, his assist/shooting percentage would be higher-- and you would be giving him praise. Christ, hes 33 and still putting up the same numbers with a bum leg

Refocus your blame, because beating a dead horse is awesome

[ice grillin you]

he gives up way more points and rebounds on the defensive end than he scores offensively...and its not even close

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Sure.

[BigEd76]

Boston.com reporting the Sixers are for sale... 

For sale: Philadelphia 76ers

One of the league's true flagship franchises may be available.

According to a usually well informed NBA source, the Philadelphia 76ers are for sale.

The 76ers are owned by Comcast Spectacor, which also owns the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers, an American Hockey League team, three minor league affiliates of the Baltimore Orioles, the Wachovia Center (home of the Sixers) and the adjacent Spectrum (former home of the Sixers), and a regional 24-hour sports programming network.

Another NBA source indicated many of the current employees believe a sale is on the way, although with confidentiality agreements, these things are often hard to nail down.

The Sixers' announced attendance was down about 7.5 percent last season and the Allen Iverson-Chris Webber marriage seems to be working about as well as the Julia Roberts-Lyle Lovett union did.

Ed Snider, who founded the Flyers in 1966, is Comcast Spectacor's chairman and chairman of the Sixers.

The Sixers referred queries to Comcast Spectacor, where president Peter Luukko said through a spokesman via e-mail, "We receive expressions of interest from time to time."

"No one has made us an offer and we're not actively selling the team."

[ice grillin you]

i wonder  if this is why the iverson trade talks abruptly stopped

[PhillyPhreak54]

Could be.

I hope Croce buys them. That would be excellent

[Magical_Retard]

croce would be awesome. he was so into the team and making them better.

[MDS]

ok thats a start, but it would be better if the phillies were for sale.

[reese125]

Blazers' beat writer John Canzano is making a plea through the papers with management to trade Zach Randolph for Allen Iverson.
The thinking is that Jarrett Jack is a couple years away from being a true point guard and that the time is right to bring in Iverson. A deal that would work under the cap is Iverson ($18.281 million) and guard Louis Williams ($664,000) from the 76ers to Portland for Randolph ($12 million), Travis Outlaw ($1.836 million), and Juan Dixon ($2.5 million). This is just wishful thinking by the Portland media at this point, but we can't imagine the Sixers getting a better offer for Iverson.


I would take this in a heartbeat---christ at this point, im game for whatever. Now that I think of it, I would just dump Iverson to any team, look to make last place or the worst record and get Greg Oden in the lottery.....blow it up

[Rome]

Knowing the Sixers' luck, they'd come in second in the Oden draft lottery.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Knowing the Sixers' luck, they'd come in second in the Oden draft lottery.

No worries.  The Raptors will come in first but not take Oden.

[Dillen]

The schedule was released today. First game is Atlanta.

http://www.nba.com/sixers/news/0607_schedule_release_060801.html



Full schedule:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/teams/schedule?team=phi



76ers national TV games:
November 17th (Friday) @ Phoenix 10:30 ET ESPN
December 6th (Wednsday) @ Chicago 9 ET ESPN
December 8th (Friday) Washington 8 ET ESPN
December 15th (Friday) @ Dallas 8 ET ESPN
December 22nd (Friday) @ Boston 8 ET ESPN
January 26th (Friday) Cleveland 7 ET ESPN
March 4th (Sunday) New Jersey 4 ET ESPN
March 18th (Sunday) Houston 8 ET ESPN

[BigEd76]

Opening the season at home vs Atlanta.....hmmmmm......I wonder if ESPN was planning to show this as the national game in case AI was traded...

[phattymatty]

only one game in dc?  thats beat.

[reese125]

heres a long, but great article on Dajuan Wagner, who is attempting hard to make a comback to the NBA and is playing in Camden right now. The points hes putting up, regardless is hes playing in a subpar league, are astronomical. The Sixers should be interested, even if they have a shooting guard in AI

http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/41796/20060804/wagner_on_the_way_to_an_nba_comeback/