Posted: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 1:55 PM | 6 comments |
 

76ers extend Speights, Young, Smith
options
 

76ers General Manager Ed Stefanski announced today that the team has exercised the third-year contract option for forward-center Marreese Speights and the fourth-year options for forward Thaddeus Young and forward-center Jason Smith.

Of the extensions, Stefanski said, "Thaddeus, Jason, and Marreese are there of our young players who have done everything asked of them and contribute to show improvement every time they step out on the court. We are excited about the way they have developed to this point and we are looking forward to them continuing their careers with the Sixers."

The Sixers practiced today at PCOM and will be traveling this afternoon to Queens, NY, where they will play the New Jersey Nets tomorrow night in their final pre-season game.

--Kate
Posted by Kate Fagan @ 1:55 PM  Permalink | 6 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:14 PM, 10/22/2009
    That fourth year extension is just a formality for Young. The Sixers will look to extend him sometime during the next summer.
    — brannigan73
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:03 PM, 10/22/2009
    Kate, don't you mean 'three', not there?
    — mfecani
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:52 AM, 10/23/2009
    Hey philly hood, you`re right, that`s a great idea. Let`s just get rid of Brand. It`s not like he`s owed over 65 million dollars and has four years left on his contract. The best, and most financially sound option is to just get rid of him. Oh wait, you have no idea what you`re talking about.
    — jefuuetsukusura
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:21 AM, 10/23/2009
    sura, I was hoping you were wrong about size of contract for Brand, but it is apparently even worse: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3480691
    — alank
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:37 AM, 10/23/2009
    We all know that Elton has an 80 million dollar contract Alank. Jefuuetsukusura just subtracted approximately one year's salary from that, which would bring the amount close to 65 million left to be paid to Elton.
    — deasytrent


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