From the twitters: I'm told the Trail Blazers are increasing interest in Sixers C Jahlil Okafor. Portland needs to add depth in their front court.
Saying we offered Noah, Aminu and 1st round pick for him. Not sure how to embed tweets here. Dwight Jaynes re-tweeted it if you want to find it
Yeah, that makes no sense. But, this does seem like an Olshey kind of move to me...we'll see if it has legs
Thats not a great offer but not ungodly lowbally him as Aminu is on a GREAT contract. I can't think the 76ers would realistcally want him.
Right? I'm scratching my head trying to figure out how Terry is going to get all these guys minutes. Okafor seems promising, but I'm not sure how much sense it makes now that we have Davis, Plumlee, and Ezeli. Only position on our roster that is "Weak" is the point guard. But it's not really that weak when you consider the fact that CJ can play the 1 as well.
Dame, CJ, and even Turner can play point. Every position has at least 3 good players that could play there and start on half the teams in the NBA. PG Dame/CJ/Turner SG CJ/Crabbe/Turner SF Turner/Moe/Aminu/Crabbe PF Aminu/Davis/Harkless C Ezeli/Plumlee/Meyers/Davis/ Maybe PF is the weakest position, but Aminu is such an advantage there and Davis might be the best PF off the bench on the league. Vonleh could breakout there next year and Meyers and Harkless can slide over as well.
We have depth but Okafor would be a big upgrade for our bigs. None of them have his offensive skill set or upside.
Lack frontcourt depth lol I am interested though... But idk what the Sixers realistically want from us? They certainly aren't getting either Dame or CJ. Crabbe and Leonard can't be traded till January I think.
I would add Plumlee to the package as well, i think Okafor can be a real bright spot for a future. The only 3 bigs we really need to keep imo are Davis,Hark\Aminu (not both) and maybe Ezeli (i don't like players who get injured a lot).
This rumor isn't true. Common sense says so. Olshey mentioned in two different press conferences playing aminu at PF this season. Don't think they would be talking like that about a player they would be trading
It isn't that hard to understand. We have too many bigs (Ezeli, Plumlee, Meyers, Davis, Vonleh, Alexander and also Aminu and Harkless) so we're looking to make a 2for1 or a 3for1. Aminu plus Vonleh and/or maybe Davis and see who we can get in return
He could probably play power forward even though he doesn't stretch the floor at all. We'd probably include Plumlee in the package because we couldn't possible get him minutes otherwise. Ezeli/Davis at C, Okafor/Leonard at PF would be doable but pretty slow and unbalanced. I'd rather keep Aminu. If Leonard was tradeable in a package then I could see him + Vonleh + Plumlee + pick being offered but it's a poor deal for Sixers.
