76ers set so as to add Cameron Payne, improve Jabari Parker to straightforward contract for stretch run
Philadelphia made a few strikes on Monday to assist solidify and add depth to its roster for the ultimate 30-game push into the playoffs.
The primary is signing veteran level guard Cameron Payne for the rest of the season, one thing first reported by Marc Stein of The Stein Line. Payne performed for 10 seasons within the NBA — he was in 72 video games for the Knicks final season, averaging quarter-hour and 6.9 factors an evening — however could not land a contract this season, so he signed to play with Partizan Belgrade in Serbia, the place he averaged 12.4 factors and three.9 assists however in simply 10 video games. The staff has agreed to launch him.
Partizan Belgrade will obtain $1.75 million within the buyout, in line with Stein, however below the phrases of the CBA, the 76ers can contribute solely $875,000 of that.
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Philadelphia has All-Star Tyrese Maxey on the level, however is just a little skinny on the guard spot after buying and selling Jared McCain to Oklahoma Metropolis on the deadline. Payne gives depth that coach Nick Nurse can belief.
The opposite piece of enterprise was rather more simple: Changing Jabari Walker from a two-way to a normal, two-year contract, a narrative damaged by Shams Charania of ESPN.
Walker has performed in 45 video games for the 76ers this season, beginning six, and giving the staff strong rotation minutes on the 4. He was bumping up in opposition to the two-way contract restrict of fifty video games and the Sixers did effectively to simply lock him up. It is vitally seemingly that the second yr of this contract shouldn’t be (or is minimally) assured.
