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[QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 3048115, member: 1674"]
Seems to me like there's a glut of 8-10 teams that have title hopes right now and Philly is one of them.

They still have to figure out the Butler sign-and-trade though. I would like to think that Miami will ultimately incentivize Dallas enough to take Dragic, but for now, Dallas reportedly has moved on and doesn't plan on taking Dragic, so there's a chance the sign-and-trade falls apart and Butler ends up going somewhere else, potentially with Philly getting nothing in return.

At any rate, assuming they ultimately push this through, like I said, they'll have title hopes. I personally don't think it's going to work out for them but we'll see; obviously can change a lot if Simmons comes back an improved player.

For now though, I don't know who is creating offense on that team. Embiid can create for himself when he's not exhausted/injured, but outside of him, it was basically all Butler and Redick in the half court last year. Redick's off-ball movement and Butler's iso-breakdown ability were what kept the 76ers afloat whenever Embiid didn't have the ball. Richardson and Horford can't really replace either Butler or Redick IMO on the offensive end and I don't really trust Horford to continue being great moving forwards at his age/physical state.
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