Sixers Voted By The Athletic To Have Had The Best Offseason In 2022

The Philadelphia 76ers were very active in the 2022 offseason as they traded for De’Anthony Melton on draft night and then they signed PJ Tucker and Danuel House Jr. in free agency. Those moves are expected to give the Sixers a big boost in the depth department.

Combine those moves with re-signing James Harden and then Joel Embiid coming back healthy plus the rise of Tyrese Maxey and the Sixers are in a great spot to compete in the Eastern Conference.

Based on the moves the Sixers made in the offseason, The Athletic voted that they had the best offseason out of any team in the league:

Doc Rivers will have much better two-way options in 2022-’23 than he had last season. Tucker hit a spectacular .415 on 3s last season, and, as we always note, is criminally underrated as a rebounder; House shot the exact same percentage as Tucker during his 25-game stint in Utah, and Melton was more than credible (.374) from deep for the Grizzlies, on the highest volume of his career. So those swing-swing passes that wound up in the hands of Matisse Thybulle and Georges Niang against Miami in the playoffs should produce different outcomes next year. The Sixers’ title hopes still rest on Harden’s physique and Embiid’s health, though. That doesn’t change. Nor does the fact that Philly really will miss Seth Curry in the years to come. But scared money doesn’t make money.

At this point, the Sixers probably have the deepest and most talented roster in the Embiid era and that is something that they can lean on. The additions of Tucker and House Jr. joining Harden, Embiid, Maxey, and Tobias Harris should do wonders on the floor and give Philadelphia a push in a tough Eastern Conference.