It’s fair to say Sixers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey has a type. Philadelphia has reportedly agreed to terms with three players who used to play for Morey’s former team in Houston.
Free agent forward P.J. Tucker is finalizing a three-year, $33.2M fully guaranteed deal with the 76ers, agent Andre Buck tells Shams Charania of The Athletic. That long-rumored agreement will use the team’s full non-taxpayer mid-level exception.
The Sixers have also agreed to sign free agent forward Danuel House, tweets Charania. House is getting a two-year, $8.5M deal, per Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. It’ll be completed using the bi-annual exception.
Finally, Philadelphia has reached a deal with G League MVP Trevelin Queen, according to Wojnarowski. The guard will sign a two-year, minimum-salary contract with a partial guarantee ($300K) in Year 1, tweets Derek Bodner of The Athletic.
As a result of using their full MLE and BAE, the Sixers will be hard-capped for the coming season.
The 76ers were able to use those exceptions in full due to James Harden opting out of his contract and planning to accept a lower first-year salary on a new deal with the team. If Harden’s $47M+ option had been on Philadelphia’s books, the club would’ve been hard-pressed to remain under a hard cap.
The Sixers have been mentioned as Tucker’s most likely landing spot for much of the last week. Star center Joel Embiid singled out Tucker in his comments to the media after the team lost to Miami in the playoffs, stating that Philadelphia needed a tough, versatile player like that in its frontcourt. Needless to say, Embiid will be happy that the Sixers went out and got the 37-year-old.
House, 29, helped shore up the Jazz’s perimeter defense and hit 41.5% of his 3-pointers in a 25-game stint with the club this past season. He’ll give the Sixers another 3-and-D rotation player.
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