Every February, the same thing happens: a national reporter tweets something vague about the Sixers being ‘available for conversations,’ half of Twitter goes into free agent speculation mode, and the other half calls for someone to be fired.
This year’s trade rumor cycle has been particularly chaotic, so let’s do what we always do here — go through the speculation systematically and figure out what’s real.
The Embiid trade rumors: overblown, but not completely smokeless. The Maxey extension situation: more complicated than the official line suggests. The veteran minimum depth pieces the team has been quietly exploring: more real than anyone’s reported. And the conversation about completely blowing it up and going full rebuild: a genuine option that at least two people in the organization have floated internally.
Here’s where things actually stand.
