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**Sliccat** · 02-25-2007, 12:40 PM

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I posted the thread.

This makes it even sillier that you are asking questions that were already answered in a 15 post thread you started.

Noob · 02-25-2007, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Sliccat

This makes it even sillier that you are asking questions that were already answered in a 15 post thread you started.

It was more of a rhetorical question than anything else. Anyway, this is a pointless disagreement. Let's leave it at that.

**Coatesvillain** · 02-25-2007, 06:42 PM

The Sixers didn't give up their second rounder. What this trade does is give them the right to swap picks with the Jazz if it benefits them.

I think they made this move to do Alan Henderson a favor since he wasn't going to get minutes on what is one of the worst teams in basketball, it's probably better to not get minutes on a playoff team. If you read his scouting report you'd notice that after all those games he missed in Atlanta due to injury, Alan Henderson has become an astute towel waver.

Tha Freak · 03-03-2007, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Coatesvillain

The Sixers didn't give up their second rounder. What this trade does is give them the right to swap picks with the Jazz if it benefits them.

Exactly. The Sixers get the right to swap picks if the Jazz's second rounder will be higher than ours, which I highly doubt. Anyways, it's just a little of freeing up some money and helping Henderson go elsewhere to a better situation.

Anyone remember last season when we traded Lee Nailon and our second rounder to the Cavs for their second rounder (Cavs had a lower second rounder)? This management is cheap....

**Coatesvillain** · 03-04-2007, 11:23 AM

Here's Billy King on the situation..

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“I don’t understand the Alan Henderson trade. Why would you want the right to swap second round picks with Utah when their pick will be behind the 76ers? With the current roster, and three first round picks, it seems unlikely that a second round pick next year would make the 15-man roster anyway.”
-Allen Gorski

Billy King
“Well, Allen, mainly that was a managing the cap situation. There was a miscalculation on the tax number when we bought Chris Webber out, so we had to get under the tax. In doing so, Utah took Alan in and we got somebody to pay his salary, which got us under the tax. Swapping the picks is our right to swap, because anytime you make a trade, Utah had to give us something back. To do that, Utah gave us the right to swap picks, even though we’re not going to swap with them. Also, we owed them a pick in 2008, so we reduced the protection on that pick in the second round. So it was more getting under the tax and clearing up some miscalculation, cleaning it up a little bit. I do agree that next year the second round pick may not be somebody that we need to add to the roster with the three first round picks, but that could be a situation where we draft a guy over seas and leave him over seas, or it could be a situation where we could use it to make a trade. But I think any time you have those picks, you want them for an asset value in order to be able to maneuver.”

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