76ers president Daryl Morey has made it very clear that he won't trade Ben Simmons, the team's inactive star, for anything less than a player who fit well alongside Joel Embiid and increase the franchise's odds to win a championship.
A new report from The Athletic's Shams Charania and Sam Amick on Monday backs up that notion. According to The Athletic, Morey's top target in a Simmons trade is not one he'll likely be able to secure ahead of the NBA trade deadline next month. Rather, he has his eyes on a reunion with James Harden, the former Rockets star now a core member of the Nets' Big Three.
Per The Athletic, the 76ers are believed to prefer to wait in order to pursue Harden or another superstar in the offseason and could want to save Simmons for that potential sign-and-trade instead of taking what’s available on the current market.
