Retaining Grimes will clearly be the precedence, and fortuitously for the Sixers the wage cap surroundings within the NBA this summer time paves the best way for them to not solely re-sign the 24-year-old breakout guard, however accomplish that on a contract that’s team-friendly. However the important thing to becoming in Grimes, Yabusele, Kelly Oubre Jr. and a top-six choose is getting Yabusele on a deal that doesn’t restrict the crew’s flexibility. If he takes the taxpayer’s mid-level exception, projected to be price a most of two years and roughly $11.6 million, the Sixers would be capable to spend no matter they wanted to in an effort to re-sign both of their remaining key free brokers. If it requires extra money than that for the Sixers to re-sign Yabusele, they would wish to dip into the non-taxpayer’s mid-level exception. Doing so would provoke a tough cap on the first apron for the Sixers, at which level they may slot in Grimes, their first-round choose and presumably not a lot else outdoors of minimal contracts. Andre Drummond has a $5 million participant choice he’ll possible choose up — maybe a wage dump of what is going to then be an expiring deal might assist the Sixers clear room below their onerous cap if Yabusele’s market grows. -via Philly Voice / April 15, 2025
