A quick reminder before everyone starts making their travel reservations for next year’s Bucks-Celtics Eastern Conference finals: the two biggest improvements the Sixers can make this offseason will not pop up on the transaction wire.
They were never going to turn themselves into a championship team in the first few weeks of the offseason. P.J. Tucker, De’Anthony Melton, Danuel House — these are smart, sensible additions who leave the Sixers much closer to being the thing that they were not in the postseason: a complete basketball team capable of optimizing its core talent.
At the end of the day, though, that core talent is still the key. In a world where the Sixers are playing for a championship next season, their two biggest offseason acquisitions are a younger James Harden and an older Tyrese Maxey.
