Monday, December 31, 2007
SIXERS NEWS
The Sixers began the New year in style tonight, continuing there road trip with a visit to Seattle to face the Supersonics. Offensively, five Sixers scored in double figures(Andre Miller, Andre Iguodala, Rodney Carney, Samuel Dalembert, Lou Williams) with Iggy's 25 leading the way. Defensively, Samuel Dalembert was again the standout with 7 rebounds and 6 blocks. Additionally, although the Sixers were out rebounded by Seattle 46-35, they had a much better shooting night, shooting nearly 50% from the field and from beyond the arc. As for the game it was closer than the final score would indicate. Through the 1st quarter of play Seattle actually led 23-21. By the half however, the Sixers had exploded for a 12 point, 46-34 lead. The rest of the way they used that lead to hang on. Through three quarters Seattle had cut the lead, to 11 with the score 73-62. In the 4th quarter Seattle continued to rally, but the Sixers had just enough to hang on for a 98-90 victory. So the Sixers improve to 14-17 overall, but remain in 4th place in the Atlantic division.
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Good win, but why do you think they traded Kyle Korver
- to phillysports
well, considering he is already the greatest 3 point shooter in Sixer's history, there's only one reason they would trade him, cap room. Korver was owed 15 million on contract this year, while his replacement Gordan Giricek is only owed a million or so, and is a free agent at the end of season, so he probably won't even return to the sixers next season, leaving significant cap room for the Sixers to make a deal in the offseason for someone other than Reggie Evans or Calvin Booth who hasn't really played all season
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