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Philly might hold the key

I recently read an article about Philly reaching a fork in the road and them needing to pick a direction. Basically it talks about their treasure trove of draft pick, the possibility of a trade (either for a great player or down in draft) and free agents they could go after. Namely JJ or Lowry.

The consistent thing is that they are looking for shooters to put around embid and simmons. It seems that Fox has the opportunity to go very high in any other draft but they fear taking him and his shot not developing and they don't need a SF period with simmons especially when prospects are so close in value.

I think maybe we could help each other on a few fronts. JJ I don't think will be going to philly and it would take 22mil to do it. Lowry would take more and they would be paying both well into their 30's. I think Colangelo knows that the warriors and Cavs will be the teams for the next 2 years at least. He can't afford to pay that much until the young guys develop IMO.

We could trade the 6th and 35th pick plus Fournier for the 3rd and 39th pick and Henderson, Stauskas, and Anderson. With the third pick we take Tatum, and the philly takes Monk at 6 and plays him as PG but he's not the primary ball handler. So they would be: Monk / Fournier / Simmons / Saric / Embiid

At 25 take Juwan Evans, at 33 we take a gamble on Diallo and with the 39 pick we take Swanigan

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