When James Harden declined his $47.4 million player option for the 2022-23 season on Wednesday, he gave the Sixers a pathway to both the $10.5 million non-taxpayer mid-level exception and the $4.1 million bi-annual exception. They didn’t waste any time putting both to use once free agency officially began at 6 p.m. ET Thursday.
The Sixers agreed to a fully guaranteed three-year, $33.2 million deal with forward P.J. Tucker, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic, and agreed to a two-year, $8.5 million contract with Danuel House Jr., according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.