Saturday, January 5, 2019

Should the Sixers trade JJ

I keep on seeing this idea that the Sixers should trade Ben Simmons and well that may be a indicator of low intelligence it did get me thinking about another player on the team that they could consider trading. JJ Redick the 3 point shooting specialist, who makes $12.5 million for this year. (Yes I know that the JJ has essentially a no-trade clause because of early bird rights so this us ultimate  purely a hypothetical) JJ is an extremely important part of the Sixers offense as he is the only pure shooter of the sixers starters, a five man group that ranks as on of the best in the NBA, but he is having one of his worst seasons from the behind the arc in his career and cannot cover any one which can cause issues when the sixers have to go to the bench and do not match him with above average defensive players like Embiid, Ben Simmons, and Jimmy Butler. 

If JJ could be traded there are only two types of trade that would make sense from a Sixers perspective. A trade where his 12.5 million salary is used to match up with a higher paid player, like Otto Porter or Bradley Beal. The issue with these trades is that from the Sixers perspective Wilson Chandler would be the better player to send off and the Wizards, or other rebuilding team are not going to want JJ so it would need to be a 3 team trade.

The other type of trade is moving JJ to a "contender" for a few young players that would fit into the Sixers bench. The team that appears to need shooting more than anyone, outside of maybe the sixers, is the Lakers. It would fulfill the destiny of JJ to play with Lebron and take the Kover role for the twilight of his career. Now looking down the Lakers roster what would the Sixers want. Well the first option would be Ball and Ingram, if the two former number 2 picks continue to show that they cannot work with Lebron would they consider shipping the duo out of town for a player that fits perfectly with Lebron, yes they would but that player is not JJ so unless Ingram starts joining Ball in the airballing layup line the Lakers are looking to turn these pieces into a bigger prize like Anthony Davis
(http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=ya7ffp6j

The other option for the Sixers Lakers would be a deal of Redick for Caldwell-Pope and Hart. The philly fans be all over this because it would bring the Villanova product back to Philadelphia and provide the team with two wing players that could defend. Both Lakers players shoot over 36% from behind the arc but neither are on JJ's level of threat from three. KCP like JJ is a free agent at the end of the year and Hart is on contract of under 2 million for next year so the trade would not be a major impact either teams ability to go after free agents in the off season. 
http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=y89zqff6 

Now would this trade fix the Sixers bench problem possibly due to the increased amount of players that can actually play defense but it would would hurt from a spacing point of view because neither has the ability JJ has to hit shots on the move or off the dribble. It would also create an issue for the Sixers offense as the Redick Embiid DHO is such a large part of it. Would Brown move Butler into JJ's role in the offense or would they change things completely. 

The Lakers would prefer to include Ball in the trade instead of Hart which would mean the Sixers would need to send more salary back which would make the trade impossible.

Now there is no way that this trade would ever happen because of JJ's early bird rights but if people are willing to consider trading Ben maybe the sixers should also consider trading JJ. 


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