That was just the beginning as the Skyforce were then in a four team trade in which they acquired guard/forward Seth Tarver from the Idaho Stampede. In the deal, the Skyforce sent Mustapha Farrakhan to the Idaho Stampede. In 30 games with the Stampede, Tarver averaged 7.2 points and 3.6 rebounds.

Then on February 26th, the Skyforce made another trade this time for all star forward James Mays. They acquired Mays from the Maine Red Claws in exchange for guard Gabe Pruitt. In five games with the Red Claws, he averaged 12.4 points and 9.6 rebounds. Earlier in the season, Mays was apart of the Springfield Armor. James Mays participated in the NBA Development League All Star Game where he scored seven points and grabbed 11 rebounds.

Finally, in latest Sioux Falls Skyforce news, Demetris Nichols was named the NBA D-League Performer of Month for February. He led the Skyforce to a 7-3 record last month and also scored an NBA D-League wide season high 42 points in win over the Iowa Energy.

Now looking back at the Skyforce games this past week, they went 1-1, the one loss came by the hands of the Tulsa 66ers. But their only win was on February 27th against the Austin Toros as they defeated them 94-93. Newly acquired Seth Tarver came off the bench and scored 24 points and grabbed eight rebounds in 28 minutes.

After the games this week, the Sioux Falls Skyforce record is now 21-15 and they are in fourth place in the Central division. They are also one game out of first in the Central but is the seventh seed in the playoffs.

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Richardson's three point ability will help everyone on the court.

A problem that has effected the Sixers the past few seasons has the been lack of three point shooting. They tried guys like Jodie Meeks, Andre Nocioni and Jason Kapono, but they all failed. This season through trade and free agency they will have multiple options for an outside shooting threat. Nick Young, who has signed a one year contract with the team was the start of the perimeter moves. He is a 37 percent shooter who is very streaky, which the Sixers unfortunately know first hand. 2009 was his best season when he shot 41 percent, but he is versatile taking the ball to the basket as well. Young will replace Lou Williams as one of their top scorers off the bench. The next move was acquiring Dorell Wright in a trade from Golden State. He will come off the bench and provide a 3 point spark. Wright is a 37 percent shooter who is able to find room and make opponents pay consistently.  That brings me to the biggest move, which was acquiring Jason Richardson in the Andrew Bynum trade. Richardson has been a border line all star his whole career and is 37 percent career three point shooter. He should play either the small forward or shooting guard in the the offense this season. Obviously the Bynum move was the big one of the off season, but these three moves could really help the offense and the Sixers ability to spread the floor all year.

Young will replace Lou Williams as the scoring spark off the bench.