LOOK, IF YOU can, into the future: Can you be aware unrestricted available force Andre Miller in a 76ers invariable in 2009-10? "Our importance hasn't changed," said Andy Miller, the advocate for the train guard who was arguably the Sixers' most worthy player in 2008-09. "Andre has a effectual interest, a strong desire to come back. "We feel, from his body of work, Philadelphia should of course reveal that in an offer, in advance for what he has done or what he can do for them in the future. We know the gang has financial commitments elsewhere, but we also differentiate Andre has continued to produce and deliver. "If the fans want a band that can achieve the playoffs, that can win in the playoffs, the Sixers would be hard-pressed to chance someone at the condition who can produce like Andre.
" Sixers president/general supervisor Ed Stefanski is like as not to hear that and more today when he contacts Andy Miller on the win hour of free agency in the NBA. Teams can effect with players and agents, but cannot clinch deals until July 8. This isn't twin some years, when Stefanski might have been on a natural agent's doorstep at 12:01 a.m. With no more than the midlevel quirk of about $5.6 million, the bi-annual anomaly of just under $2 million and the cleverness to designate trades, the Sixers are not in a position to do that.
Nor is it go for last summer, when Stefanski was able to court restricted unregulated cause Josh Smith, then dismay major dollars at Elton Brand and Andre Iguodala. The gold buy of business, then, is for Stefanski to entreat Andy Miller, "to glom where the landscape is." "If that's their position, then I'll work up [Stefanski's] tag first," Andy Miller said.
The "landscape" involves the genre of roll - dollars and extent of term - that would weight Andre Miller, who will rotate 34 in March. Many observers find creditable his defense, never his strong suit, tailed off dramatically down the strain of most recent season. Miller was listed on the Sixers' remuneration cap at $10,333,334 final year.
Will he accept something similar? Will the Sixers come forward something similar? More? Less? Those same observers admit that Miller holds the longest sprint of games played (530) centre of spry players and that the Sixers do not have another starter-ready relevancy guard. Stefanski has said that first-round blueprint selection Jrue Holiday is their appropriateness guard of the future, and his best strategy to immediate minutes is his willingness and gift to play defense. Supporters of rejuvenated coach Eddie Jordan's Princeton offense get pleasure from to point out that it can be operative with a pair of combo guards; others suggest it remains vital to have someone master to direct the offense. The duration factor? "By the time we get to March, they will have played almost a complete season," Andy Miller said.
"We don't reflect grow old being a factor. Last year, Andre was as plentiful [16.3 points, 6.5 assists] as he has always been, and he's one of the iron men of the league.
He gets injury less than any of the other starters." Length of term? "We're not looking protracted while - 3 years," Andy Miller said. "Jason Kidd and Steve Nash are proper to have contracts that will obtain them to 38." The Sixers disposed to would be more easy with 1 year, or literary perchance 1 year and some kind of privilege or buyout. That's all pull apart of the compact process, mainly in the current economic climate, in which some marquee players will to soon and others will have to wait patiently to foresee whether the salary cap and the luxury-tax trigger sense come down.
Andre Miller's defense? "If his defense level off," Andy Miller said, "then we'd have to go back and estimate who played leading defense." There are also the annual rumors and reflection about stake from other teams and whether Andre Miller would select to go west. In brand-new days, one ESPN pressman has "heard" about the idea of a sign-and-trade with Portland and the prospect of such an arrangement bringing Steve Blake to the Sixers. League executives were not cleared to make known specifically about such things until today, but an anonymous agent contents the Trail Blazers allegedly said, "Don't get too worked up over that one.
" "How Andre feels about universal west or how he feels about anything under the Phoebus has been just conjecture," Andy Miller said. "That's because no one has oral to Andre at this brink other than me." Of the Sixers' own disentangle agents, Stefanski appears to have some rate in retaining custodian Royal Ivey, who declined to incite up the speculator recourse on the back end of his 2-year contract. Fourteen-year battle-scarred Donyell Marshall could be an selection much later on, but seems more favoured to keep his hat in the ring for the Comcast SportsNet game-analyst standing vacated by Bob Salmi.
There is no persuade in bringing back guard/forward Kareem Rush or forward/center Theo Ratliff. And never take care of that the Sixers hardly find out from Andre Miller from May to August.
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