<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"Sixers president/general manager Billy King confirmed contact with free agents, including Steven Hunter, Christian Laettner, Andrew DeClercq, Dale Davis and Vitaly Potapenko. Yesterday, agent Mark Bartelstein confirmed conversations with King about Hunter, saying, "It's definitely something we've talked about." Agent Lon Babby confirmed he spoke with King about Laettner, saying, "There's mutual interest, and we're exploring opportunities."</div> Hoopshype (Scroll Down) What do you all think? Of course, the obvious choice out of all those guys are Hunter and the second best would probably be Dale Davis. I don't know, I'm just disappointed right now with the type of free agents we're looking for. No Reggie Evans? None of those guys besides Davis are established players that can bring down boards for us.
Ugh, why do the 76ers want Laettner? He is way to old, the last thing they should be looking is a player who has already served 13 years in the NBA, what purpose would he fulfill on the 76ers? I feel Davis fall under the same category as Laettner; the 76ers don't need to be wasting money on these older veterans. Evans is nice, he doesn't really have much of an offensive game but the 76ers need someone who can come off the bench and do the garbage work. Evans averages 9 rebounds a game so he would definitely be a nice addition to have off the bench. But evidently Billy King hasn't been in contact with Evans so I don't know how much hope we could have of him being a Sixer. I am still a fan of bringing in Antoine Walker or Steven Hunter.
the only players on the list is basically all scrubs. billy king should look at better players who will make a big impact for the team, like reggie evans.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">the only players on the list is basically all scrubs. billy king should look at better players who will make a big impact for the team, like reggie evans.</div> Although I'd a big advocate of having Evans here, I think one way or another, he's going to be pretty expensive- probably more expensive than King can handle. Thats probably why the Sixers organization hasn't even bothered taking a look at him. Anyone that can bring down ten boards a game will get big money. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">blah, blah, boring. right?</div> Would you want to have it another way? At least now we don't have to worry about any of our young players leaving.
I`m still waiting for a word about Hunter, I would love to see him on our squad. As for the FA`s King`s looking at, I`m not too intrested, Laettner, DeClercq, I`ll pass but Laettner showed some bright spots with Miami. I`ll keep my hopes up for Dale Davis as well. (-;
