Sixers offseason

[ice grillin you]

Dajuan Wagner, who is attempting hard to make a comback to the NBA and is playing in Camden right now.

hes not playing in camden hes playing in cherry hill....lolol...

id go for 40 in cherry hill

[reese125]

IGY? knock it off...no you couldnt

my main point is when you can score that many points in any b-ball game, your doing something so right, when everyone else isnt even on your planet. he belongs back in the NBA, it was just unfortunate what happened to him for so long. the boy can shoot the rock

[PhillyPhreak54]

Sign him and Jay Williams and bring 'em to camp and see what they've got. It can't hurt

[reese125]

sixers now closer to being sold

[PhillyPhreak54]

76ers' trade exception to expire
There is $4.45 million to play with; Billy King says "there's nobody out there to use it on."
By Joe Juliano
Inquirer Staff Writer

The plan looked like a good one at the time.

The 76ers entered the off-season armed with a $4.45 million trade exception, hoping it would help them obtain a player, preferably a tough-minded veteran who could provide a spark and get the team back into playoff contention.

However, as the expiration date of the trade exception arrives today, Sixers president and general manager Billy King is going to allow it to run out without using it. The team acquired the exception from the New Jersey Nets last August in exchange for Marc Jackson.

"There's nobody out there to use it on," King said yesterday. "There is no one out there that makes sense."

That goes double for the Sixers' midlevel exception of $5.215 million, which will be available throughout this season. "There's nobody out there to use that on, either," King said.

The team is in a bind. King confirmed that the Sixers are over the NBA's luxury-tax threshold of $65.42 million but would not go into specifics.

The Sixers are believed to be about $4.3 million over the tax number. They are paying the 12 players on their roster about $66.4 million. A 2004 buyout of former guard Greg Buckner's contract counts for an additional $3.36 million.

Under the rules of the luxury tax, the Sixers must pay a dollar-for-dollar tax on any total over the NBA-mandated figure.

The Sixers also are paying $6.5 million on their contract with Aaron McKie, who was released last year under a clause in the new collective-bargaining agreement that allowed a team to waive a player and avoid paying luxury tax on his remaining contract.

McKie now plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. What the Sixers are paying him still counts against the team's salary cap.

Contributing to the Sixers' high payroll is the fact that their roster includes two of the six highest-paid players in the NBA. Chris Webber ranks second in 2006-07 salary at $20.72 million, while Allen Iverson is sixth at $18.28 million. Their $39 million combined salaries account for nearly 59 percent of the team's payroll.

King said the Sixers' goal is to start the season under the luxury-tax figure but added that ownership is not pressuring him to do that.

"It's not a mandate, and it doesn't really hamstring us if we want to do something," he said. "Our goal is to put the best possible team on the floor. If we can make a trade, we're not just going to sit there and say, 'Hey, we've got to strip [the roster] clean.'

"... We've still been talking to people [about potential trades], but there hasn't been a lot of movement throughout the league."

The Sixers traded Jackson, a veteran forward who played at Temple, to New Jersey on Aug. 9, 2005. The Nets gave the Sixers a trade exception for Jackson's salary, $4.45 million, to be used within one year.

Even though the Sixers are well over the salary cap of $53.135 million, they are allowed to use exceptions as permitted by the NBA's collective-bargaining agreement.

[BigEd76]

Eskin claims the Sixers turned down a trade of Webber to NY for Q-Rich and Maurice Taylor...

[MDS]

CLAIM

[reese125]

looks like King is not as dumb as GM hiring.

that trade is junk. it would put the sixers in worse position than they already are

[ice grillin you]

Knicks mulled Webber deal
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

By STEVE ADAMEK
STAFF WRITER


Chris Webber, still hampered by the aftermath of microfracture knee surgery at 33, is due more than $42 million over the next two seasons -- a perfect fit for the Knicks' seemingly infinite budget.

The five-time All-Star could also fit the win-or-else mandate president/coach Isiah Thomas faces this season, but initial discussions haven't produced a fit to send Webber to New York.

Still, the 76ers have approached the Knicks (and anyone else willing to listen) about Webber, league sources say, but weren't offered enough to make the kind of deal they've sought to shake up things this summer after several Allen Iverson scenarios fell through.

The package offered by Thomas, who is on vacation this week and could not be reached Tuesday, starts with Quentin Richardson (with his back issues and $33.8 million over four seasons left on his contract) and Maurice Taylor (whose $9.75 million contract expires after this season).

For the necessary salary-cap match, the Knicks would have to send more to Philadelphia to take on the $20 million Webber makes next season. So they'd likely try to include another albatross salary, such as the two years and $13.7 million owed to Philadelphia native Malik Rose or the four years and $24 million still due to Jerome James.

Webber-to-the-Knicks talk, however, is nothing new as he's been on their radar screen since before he re-signed as a free agent with Sacramento five years ago.

Last season, he averaged 20.2 points and 9.9 rebounds in 75 games as the Sixers failed to make the playoffs in his and Iverson's first full season together. Thus, team president Billy King has vowed to change the Sixers' culture.

He couldn't complete deals that would have sent Iverson to Boston, Denver or Atlanta, so now he's looking to move Webber, who turns 34 in March. And although Webber's knee severely limits his mobility, in New York he would join Eddy Curry and Channing Frye in a three-man rotation at power forward and center.

If the Sixers and Knicks can make a match, that is, or King can't find a better offer elsewhere.

[phattymatty]

Thomas is the only GM not smart enough to completely rape Billy King in a deal.

This trade would have been dumb for the Sixers, but I like the fact that they're trying to get rid of Webber.

[ice grillin you]

by definition getting rid of webber could never be a dumb move

[The BIGSTUD]

For Q Rich and Mo Taylor it would be.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

by definition getting rid of webber could never be a dumb move

Only if they got rid of Webber while proclaiming that anyone but Sean Taylor is the best safety in the NFL.

[reese125]

http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060822/SPORTS03/608220375/1002/SPORTS

Wagner worked out for the Sixers

...thought he already did for some reason?

[Dillen]

http://www.insidebayarea.com/warriors/ci_4242816

Iverson for Richardson, Foyle, and first round pick swap.



I dont have an opinion on this trade. Sixers need to get a point guard in an Iverson trade, either through a first rounder or player. The Warriors pick probably wont be much higher than the 76ers. Foyle has a horrible contract and is worse on the offensive end than Spazzy. I would have done this trade before the draft, because it could have been...

C Dalembert
PF Webber
SF Iguodala
SG Richardson
PG M. Williams


Too late now though.