As the NBA’s Feb. 10 trade deadline rapidly approaches, noise around the Sixers is only going to increase. Whether a Ben Simmons trade happens this week or months from now in the offseason, reports will continue to fly as teams talk and leak different information.
For now, it looks like the potential trade that everyone has been focused on for the last few days — James Harden for Ben Simmons — isn’t all that close.
Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this morning that Nets GM Sean Marks and Daryl Morey had a brief, initial conversation regarding a deal earlier in the season, which was “non-productive” and “didn’t have any impact whatsoever.