The NBA’s new collective bargaining takes effect on July 1. Among other things, it features severe penalties for teams that are more than $17.5 million above the luxury-tax threshold (a newly created “second apron”) that will phase in over the next two offseasons.
Those penalties might convince some teams to try to dump long-term salary over the next month, which could make large expiring contracts more valuable on the trade market. The Sixers should therefore actively explore what they could fetch for Tobias Harris in a trade this offseason.
Harris is no stranger to trade rumors.