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The Philadelphia 76ers are in a tough battle to find a steady place atop the Eastern Conference standings. Philly, a consistent playoff team with championship aspirations, will be seeking to gain an advantage for themselves by making a trade before the NBA trade deadline on Thursday, Feb. 9.
The team does not have ample assets to make a major trade but they do have enough trade chips to use to improve for the team’s upcoming playoff run. The headliner, in theory, of the Sixers’ trade chips is 20-year-old guard Jaden Springer. I created and explored three different Jaden Springer trades.
Potential Sixers-Thunder Jaden Springer trade
76ers Get
C/F Mike Muscala
F Enrich Williams
Thunder Get
G Jaden Springer
G/F Furkan Korkmaz
Philadelphia does this for two reasons, gaining size and shooting. Mike Muscala is a 6-foot-11 shooting big man averaging 5.9 points per game and shooting 37.4 percent on 3.2 3-point attempts per game. Kenrich Williams is a 6-foot-7 prototypical 3-and-D wing averaging 7.6 points per game and shooting 43.2 percent on 2.3 three-point attempts per game. Williams adds an element of much-needed athleticism and toughness on the defensive end.
The end of the team’s rotation needs to be rounded out. The sixth man spot is in flux but that spot belongs to a combination of Tyrese Maxey, De’Anthony Melton, and P.J. Tucker. The bench rounds out into one of those players, Shake Milton, and Georges Niang. Both veterans acquired would be in competition to help the team at the end of the rotation. Maybe even play their way into Niang’s spot depending on the matchup.
Muscala and Williams would find themselves along a crowded bench of inconsistent players fighting reserve minutes playing on the wing or as a small-ball big man. The competition would be between the acquired forwards Montrezl Harrell, Matisse Thybulle, and Danuel House Jr. The two forwards would be working to play minutes and to give the team optionality throughout the rest of the season and the playoffs at a position of weakness.
Oklahoma City does this to acquire some more young(ish) talent and not gain anything from Muscala’s and Williams’ upcoming free agency this summer. Furkan Korkmaz is a throw-in to match the salaries of Muscala and Williams. Korkmaz provides a tall theoretically good shooter to the Thunder who are a competitive team. Springer has been an NBA-ready player on defense since he declared for the draft and putting him in a guard rotation of better and more talented offensive players in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Lugentz Dort, Tre Mann, and Isaiah Joe to play alongside. Jaden Springer can be placed into this ballhawk-type of role on defense where he goes full throttle all the time and is the final option on the offensive side.
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