Usually, when the NBA teams find themselves in the lower half of the league, they have a lottery to wait impatiently.
Take the “New Orleans of Pelicans”, which currently predict the fourth. Their situation cannot be simpler. They had a miserable season, to a large extent due to many injuries, and, as a direct result, they are likely to receive a rather high choice in the first round in the draft of this summer.
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Some teams, such as Atlanta Hawks, find themselves in an unpleasant situation, refusing to control their choice in the first round, since they owe his San Antonio Sperm, unprotected.
Then there is Philadelphia 76ers who – sighed – just, it seems, always find a way to make things very difficult for themselves.
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Lengers, who similarly to pelicans dealt with multiple injuries, are, according to forecasts, they will choose the fifth in the overall standings in the project of this year.
Now the dark times are for 76ers, as many players are injured. (Photo by Mitchella Leff/Getty Images)
(Mitchell Leff through Getty images)
For the sake of them, they are most hoped that the projection adheres to them, because if they fall to the seventh, this choice goes straight to the thunder of Oklahom -City -all from the transaction that was completed four and a half years ago.
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Remember when Sixers thought that the signing of Al Horford will be a good idea?
This was in 2019, when Horford was already 33 years old, and Philadelphia believed that she could play a forward position with Joel Embiad. Everything went … as good as you expect, and after a career in 67 games with Sixers, Horord was considered the thunder that it can only be called a salary dump.
Here is Kiker: for Sixers, who signed Horord for a four -year transaction in the amount of $ 97 million, they had to refuse assets to get out of the contract.
One of these assets? Yes, this is a choice this year, with a top of the security.
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This means that Philadelphia will be on the verge of its place before the lottery on May 12, when she finally learns about her fate for the draft of this year.
For the team, which was disappointed in this overwhelming majority and stuck with two albatross contracts in the form of Embiid and Paul George, Sixers need a victory here, and this means that he will choose a choice.
As an organization, you can see a much clearer path from a dark desert if you add the six best to the young core of Tyreze Maxi, Jared McCain and Quentin Graims-subject that 76ers adhere to the grains, which is a limited free agent this summer.
The loss of the choice of this year and the need to return to the dried well of Embiid and George, knowing that the cycle of eternal injuries will undoubtedly raise his head again, will be a blow to intuition. And all this will be associated with a trade committed almost half a decade ago.
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In any case, there is something to learn here.
Passing large long-term money to players approaching their mid-30s who project how Wantky is almost always ending poorly.
Some will argue that potential rewards outweigh the risk, but these are probably the same people who will make an investment of $ 4,000 in Aerotyne International after a phone call with Jordan Belfort.
In fact, if the team should play on any talents, at least, focus on young talents. The probability that such a player will become a valuable asset much higher.
In addition, the use of elections in order to help yourself out of trouble, in fact, does not displace itself out of trouble. It just kicks the bank in the future, and the choice becomes more valuable, more attractive and more necessary – but no longer at your disposal.
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Here you may think: “But if 76ers save their choice this year, everything is in order, right?”
Well, and no. Sixes need this choice this year, especially in order to become better in the next season. Because they are still owed to thunder. This will not leave in the near future.
If Sixers retains this year, protection when choosing the next season is reduced to the first four, that is, Sixers will have to be selected during the first four elections to save it. The same applies to 2027.
(This becomes crazy in 2028 from James Harden’s trade in 2022, which throws Brooklyn into the mix, but let’s wait to lay out, since we have enough to decipher.)
The presence of a choice in Oklahom-City next year would be preferable, suggesting, of course, Sixers recede in the next season and will not have to refuse to choose a lottery, sir, how can you help the best choice.
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