Daily News | How Sixers players are handling the trade deadline: ‘Control what you can control’
“I understood from a long time ago that everybody in this league is expendable,” said reserve center Montrezl Harrell, who was traded from the Washington Wizards to the Charlotte Hornets at last season’s deadline. “There’s not really many guys who can just pick and choose where they want to go. Probably like 10 guys. Fifteen, max. But there’s, what? Four hundred-plus guys in the NBA?
At least one Sixer hopes his name becomes a Twitter alert by Thursday afternoon. The Inquirer reported earlier this week that little-used swingman Furkan Korkmaz has requested to be moved, which also could help his team get under the luxury tax. Last season, similar feelings stemmed from James Harden and Ben Simmons, who wanted out of Brooklyn and Philly, respectively.
Other players purposefully ignore the outside chatter, with more than one leaning on the “control what you can control” cliché. The Sixers’ strong 22-7 record since Dec. 9 has helped Shake Milton, a reserve guard on an expiring $2 million contract, stay locked on basketball. It took Georges Niang, a stretch-big on an expiring $3.5 million deal, some time to develop that mentality. When the deadline to pick up his contract option aligned with the trade deadline during his time with the Utah Jazz, Niang said he did “extra sprints” at the practice facility “just letting them know, if they needed me, I was ready.
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