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Sixers Exercise ‘19-’20 Options on Simmons, Saric, Fultz

According to a press release from the Philadelphia 76ers, the team has exercised the rookie-scale options on the contracts of Ben Simmons, Dario Saric and Markelle Fultz for the ‘19-’20 season:

Philadelphia 76ers General Manager Elton Brand announced today that the team has exercised the rookie-scale options on the contracts of Markelle Fultz, Dario Šariu0107 and Ben Simmons. By exercising the options, these players will be under contract with the 76ers for the 2019-20 season.

Left out of that press release is Furkan Korkmaz, meaning the team declined to guarantee themselves a third season of poppin’ the Kork.