Tony Wroten traded to Philly

Will be interesting to see if he can capitalize on this opprotunity.

 

Hinkie doing work.

Solid trade for both teams, actually. Wroten wasn't going to get any PT in Memphis, might turn into a player with the Sixers.

 

Lotta potential brewing around the 76ers.

 

I wonder if HOU will do a similar deal with Philly and Hinkie before the roster is cut to 15. DMo, Jones, Smith and Canaan are all young guys acquired or scouted when Hinkie was with the team. Might make sense for Philly to give up a small future asset for one of them.

 

I too think he could be pretty good someday. Stuckey-like. Plus, Wroten is pretty damn bad right now. So that helps their tanking strategy.

 

No doubt he's not very good right now, but he is a high ceiling player, as is Michael Carter Williams and Nerlens Noel. Throw in the fact that they're most likely going to have 2 lottery picks in a LOADED draft class next year, one of which (their own pick), will almost assuredly be Top 5, and they can add 2 other high quality prospects. In a few years, the Sixers could be pretty dang good, assuming they draft/develop well enough.

 

It was painful watching him in summer league. Grizzlies needed to cut bait.

 

To be honest, I think Philly is gonna be OKC 2.0 unless they totally bust up their draft next year. I think more likely they can package their 2 picks for one sure fire superstar pick, let's see what happens. Noel himself was the number 1 pick before he got injured, if they get to pair him with Wiggins look out.

 

Hinkie trying to pull a Lowry.

 

Yep. Good luck to the kid but we don't have the window for him. There will be another Wroten available when our window closes.

 

Wroten should have went back to school after his freshman season.

 

Memphis: C+

The second-round pick the Grizzlies got from Philadelphia is protected in the top 50, making it clear this deal was simply about giving up on Wroten and opening up a roster spot. While the general manager who drafted Wroten (Chris Wallace) is still in Memphis, the new executives who joined the front office last season had no ties to the pick.

Comparing his performance at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, it was hard to see much development from Wroten over the past year. He has marginally improved his shot but continues to favor the risky highlight pass over the safer, simpler play. Even if Wroten improves his decision-making, it's not clear how well his skill set will translate into efficient scoring.

His best skill -- getting into the paint off the dribble -- is mitigated by his inability to finish around the basket and poor free throw shooting. Because of his size, Wroten has a better chance of contributing at the defensive end of the floor. But his effort was inconsistent, which frustrated former Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins. The offseason coaching change seemed to give Wroten a fresh start with Dave Joerger, who was promoted to replace Hollins. But after summer league, Memphis might not have been comfortable with the prospect of turning the team over to Wroten in the event of an injury to starter Mike Conley.

The addition of Nick Calathes as a backup point guard made Wroten expendable, and dealing for another second-year project (center Fab Melo) filled up the Grizzlies' roster. With this trade, Memphis has a roster spot free if one of its players on nonguaranteed contracts (including Josh Akognon and Willie Reed) impresses in training camp.

Philadelphia: A

For all of Wroten's warts, he was a first-round pick a year ago and is still just 20. If that kind of long-term development project didn't make sense for the contending Grizzlies, it's perfect for the rebuilding 76ers. With only lottery pick Michael Carter-Williams at point guard, Philadelphia can give Wroten the kind of meaningful minutes that weren't available in Memphis.

He won't cost more than $2 million until 2015-16, the final year of his rookie contract, so there's virtually no cost to the Sixers, who are still more than $8 million below the cap floor and had just 10 players signed to guaranteed contracts. And, if Wroten struggles in the near term ... well, that isn't the worst thing for a team that clearly has its eyes on the 2014 lottery.

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Finally some trade news, been a while.

 

Anybody else think this pick could come to Houston eventually. The 76ers picked up 4 Rockets this off-season. Also, Philly's roster is at 18 so Morey isn't the only one stockpiling assets.

 

Obviously Hinkie will continue the legacy of taking low risk gambles on young players that have rough starts in their career.

Morey took gambles on-

J. Hill, Thabeet, T. Williams, Flynn, T. Robinson, Aldrich

With some collateral damage but also offset damages with a few assets in trade. Damages: (late 1st round pick, 2nd round pick), Off-sets (Mid first round pick(Terrence Jones), two 2nd round picks, 2 Euro-stash players)

So I believe Hinkie will be a GM that continues this path with the Sixers. Even if he has to take a gamble on some damages, more than likely he will be able to wheel and deal his way to some off-sets.

The only question is, will Hinkie finally find a player in this "Gamble" cast-away pile that eventually turns into a star caliber player or will he continue this path of wheeling and dealing?

All I know is the 76er's will definitely be a fun team to watch from a trade perspective in the next 2 or 3 years. Hinkie is going to keep us trade nerds very, very entertained.

 

interesting take on the trade, perhaps DMo if he struggles could find himself playing with Wiggins next year

 

Or Covington, Young, Henriquez if they are cut from the Rockets training camp roster.

I would have to assume that Hinkie will also heavily shop Thad Young & his decent sized contract, J. Richardson, K. Brown, and possibly Spencer Hawes to try and pick up some of these gambles.

Also will be interesting to see what happens to Evan Turner. I've got mixed feelings about him, but he's coming up on a contract year so its going to be interesting to see if they want to take a shot at retaining him in free agency, or if they give up on him and move him during the year.

One player I could see Hinkie really going strong after is Kidd-Gilchrist or maybe Tristan Thompson. Wouldn't be shocked if Jeremy Lamb was a target as well. If OKC has doubts about his ability to give them what they need, the Sixers have the ability to facilitate a trade to get them some better proven vets to fill their roster needs in exchange for Lamb.

Its just going to be interesting to see what players Hinkie can get his hands on.