Two summers ago the former Sixers’ GM Bryan Colangelo made a monster one-year $23m offer to the veteran floor-spacer out of Duke, JJ Redick. The Virginia native wasn’t the top free agent available, but he was just good and well-respected enough that his acceptance marked a bit of a paradigm shift in Philadelphia. The acquisition suggested that the team was finally planning to start turning things around from the intentional losing “The Process” beget and also that in-demand free agents around the league weren’t all turned off by the bottom-dwelling.
Things probably worked out better than most had expected.