Report: Sixers Eyeing Jerami Grant, James Harden Among Other Trade Targets

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The Sixers proceed to search for Ben Simmons trades and extra names have emerged as potential centerpieces in a deal.

Philadelphia has curiosity in Pistons ahead Jerami Grant, in line with Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The workforce has engaged in ongoing discussions with the Detroit Pistons to accumulate Grant, one other ahead, a younger participant, and a draft decide in trade for Simmons, league sources mentioned. One supply mentioned energy ahead/middle Kelly Olynyk and second-year swingman Saddiq Bey have been talked about as gamers who could possibly be included in a potential deal. Nevertheless, a supply mentioned the Pistons are unlikely to incorporate Bey, a Villanova product, or Olynyk.

Pompey provides that the Sixers would ideally desire a extra “higher-profile participant” than Grant again in a Simmons deal whereas mentioning that the 2 NBA franchises haven’t spoken “recently.”

The Sixers proceed to eye James Harden and a few inside the entrance workplace are “eager” on the thought of conserving Simmons all through the season with the objective of providing him to Brooklyn in a Harden sign-and-trade come the offseason, per Pompey.

It’s no secret that Sixers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey has an affinity for Harden from their time along with the Houston Rockets.

Morey tried to reunite with Harden final season, providing Simmons and Matisse Thybulle in a commerce. Nevertheless, the Rockets finally traded him to the Nets, the place the 2018 MVP fashioned a Large Three with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.

Philadelphia was within the operating for Harden final season with Simmons being the rumored centerpiece in trade proposals to Houston. Nevertheless, it was reported on the time that the Sixers have been unwilling to match the Rockets’ asking worth.

Harden will likely be a free agent on the finish of the season after he and the Nets couldn’t agree on an extension by this yr’s deadline.