What If the Sixers Copied the Nets’ Rebuild Part 6
This means the Sixers would trade their 2014 first round pick to the Jazz if they miss the playoffs, but will trade that same pick to the Heat if they make the playoffs and will still owe the Jazz a first round pick that will now be a 2016 draft pick. If the Jazz will only receive the Sixers’ 2016 pick if miss they playoffs after the 2015-16 season, but will trade that same pick to the Magic if they make the playoffs and will still owe the Jazz a first round pick.
That pick will become a 2018 draft pick in this scenario and the Sixers will give the Jazz another first round pick in 2020. The Jazz would have the option to swap first round picks with the Sixers in 2015 and 2017, so if the Sixers win the lottery in 2015 and/or 2017, that pick will go to the Jazz. The Sixers will pick wherever the Jazz were slotted to pick before they changed spots with the Sixers.
While the first round pick the Sixers owe the Heat and the first round pick the Sixers owe Magic will eventually turn into two second round picks if the Sixers miss the playoffs several years in a row, the first round picks the Sixers owe the Jazz will never turn into two second round picks and the Sixers will be forced to give the Jazz two first round picks eventually.
Along with two first round picks and pick swaps, the Sixers will send the Jazz Jason Richardson ($6,204,250), Kwame Brown ($2,945,901), and Arnett Moultrie ($1,089,240). Combining Richardson, Brown, and Moultrie’s contracts for the upcoming season with the Sixers’ $12.3 million in cap space makes a total salary of $22,539,391 and gives the Sixers just enough cap space to sign Smith and Mayo.
The Sixers then re-sign Bynum to a contract similar to the one he signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers during the 2013 offseason and you can read this article by Mike Prada for details on the unusual contract.
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