Philadelphia 76ers: Daryl Morey will be prudent to begin the season

Daryl Morey is leading the Philadelphia 76ers strategically this offseason.

Despite just starting his tenure as the president of basketball operations, Daryl Morey has already made some big changes to the Philadelphia 76ers roster. He’s brought in more shooting in place of Al Horford and Josh Richardson, had a good draft, and signed a very good free agent in Dwight Howard.

Despite these moves, it’s hard to imagine a front office wizard like Morey is done making moves. The team still has one roster spot available and has the whole taxpayers’ mid-level exception to use. Philly also still has all their future first round picks, outside of the 2025 draft.

The Sixers still have the assets to land themselves a solid player, but that doesn’t mean that Morey is in a rush to do so.

Morey is playing the long game regarding the Sixers roster construction.

Morey recently revealed how he’s approaching this season and how he’s being conservative with the team’s assets. Tip of the hat to Noah Levick of NBCSPhilly for the quote.

"“We have certain bullets. We have (the taxpayer mid-level exception), we’ve got future draft picks. We’ve got certain bullets that we can use and I don’t really like using them now. I just don’t. Because the issues we see now … it’s going to be a different set of issues a month into the season……I almost guarantee we’re going to say, ‘That’s not quite working’ or ‘End of games isn’t quite working.’ And if we use the bullets now, we’re going to use them on the wrong ones (instead of) when the information is more clear as we get closer to the trade deadline and places like that. I think that is definitely what I like to do, is evaluate and address the gaps as we get closer to the playoffs.”"