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Excitement and hope is in the air this time of year as the NBA has returned and the 82 game marathon that is an NBA season is about to kick off yet again. Along with the start of the season comes another yearly event that can determine the future of many franchises and how committed [...]

Nerlens Noel thinks the Philadelphia 76ers’ center rotation is funny—in a very un-funny sort of way. Just prior to the team opening for training camp, Noel expressed high-key disgust for a frontcourt logjam that features himself, Jahlil Okafor and Joel Embiid at center, in addition to Richaun Holmes, Dario Saric and Ben Simmons at power [...]

37-year-old Elton Brand is returning for another season, re-signing with the 76ers. Brand played four somewhat injury riddled and disappointing seasons for the 76ers in his fist stint with the team, averaging 12 points and seven rebounds in 263 games after signing a five-year, $80 million contract as a free agent in 2008. He announced [...]

Nerlens Noel and Jahlil Okafor are both still members of the Philadelphia 76ers…for now. But that could change…eventually. The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski dropped this tidbit at the end of his report that the Sixers had signed Elton Brand to a one-year deal: The Sixers have had periodic trade talks this summer involving Noel and Okafor [...]

The Nerlens Noel saga continues. Okay, to be honest, it’s not really a saga. The Philadelphia 76ers just have too many damn bigs and need to move one. Jahlil Okafor is the easy pick, but interest must not have been high on him in recent months, otherwise he’d be gone already. Dealing Nerlens Noel is [...]

Breaking up is hard to do, but the Golden State Warriors made sure their divorce from Andrew Bogut went as amicably as possible. Golden State needed to dump the remaining $12.6 million on his contract to help make room for Kevin Durant. And though there were no shortage of teams who would have absorbed the [...]

Jahlil Okafor is not a fan of trade rumors. On Saturday, Calkins Media’s Tom Moore reported that the Philadelphia 76ers “tried like hell” to deal Okafor ahead of the draft but couldn’t find a palatable deal. He then revealed that the absence of a trade frustrated the young big man and his camp (h/t CBS [...]

Jahlil Okafor knows the Philadelphia 76ers are trying to trade him. Here’s what he told Basketball Insiders’ Alex Kennedy: “Well, of course you hear it,” Okafor said of trade rumors. “You hear it because of people texting you and asking you and all of that stuff. There were trade rumors involving me throughout the season. [...]

Ben Simmons, the top talent in this year’s NBA draft, won’t be working out for the Philadelphia 76ers, owners of the No. 1 pick in the 2016 prospect pageant. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Absolutely nothing. From Philly.com’s Keith Pompey: Unless something changes, the 76ers won’t work out out Ben Simmons during the NBA predraft process [...]

Does Ben Simmons, the consensus top prospect in this year’s NBA draft, know something we don’t? Strike that. Does Ben Simmons know something we already suspect to be true? Though the Philadelphia 76ers have a ton of frontcourt players on their books—Joel Embiid, Nerlens Noel, Jahlil Okafor, Dario Saric—most are operating under the assumption they’ll [...]