The trade rumors surrounding the Philadelphia 76ers will continue to grow louder as the time goes on heading into Thursday’s deadline. The Sixers will be involved in a lot of different trade options as they look to give Joel Embiid enough help to go contend for a title.
The biggest one is their involvement with Brooklyn Nets star James Harden, but if the Sixers can’t get Harden, as the Nets told them that he is unavailable, then they must turn their attention elsewhere to improve the roster.
Therefore, an option is to just improve around the margins. The two biggest holes that Ben Simmons left behind have been rebounding and ball-handling and they could move one of their younger players to help in that regard.
Per Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report:
As the deadline nears, Philadelphia brass are instead expected to focus on marginal improvements to their roster around MVP front-runner Joel Embiid. Philadelphia has clear needs for supplementary ball-handling and rebounding—two of the…