JFLNYC wrote:If Magic move to 1, who do they take?

Houshphandzadeh wrote:ill take one

ReadingPhilly wrote:Think the cavs are bringing in exum to bluff the sixers. They take 4/12/affalo for 1, thinking they'll get embiid. Sixers take embiid at 3. Cavs have no need for exum, so now their plans are screwed. Sixers offer to swap embiid for exum and 12. Cavs trying to make it seem like they have legit interest in exum.

mcare89 wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:Think the cavs are bringing in exum to bluff the sixers. They take 4/12/affalo for 1, thinking they'll get embiid. Sixers take embiid at 3. Cavs have no need for exum, so now their plans are screwed. Sixers offer to swap embiid for exum and 12. Cavs trying to make it seem like they have legit interest in exum.

That's kinda my read as well. Continuing my "they're playing chicken" theory, if the Sixers are bluffing they're going to pick Embiid if Cleveland trades down, then Cleveland's now trying to say "That's fine, we'll just pick Exum!" They know Exum isn't flying to Cleveland tonight, and that's why Exum's camp wanted assurance that they aren't being used as a pawn. But it's just another piece to make the Sixers blink.

702 wrote:I have a hard time believing Orlando would be willing to give up that much.

joe table wrote:

mcare89 wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:Think the cavs are bringing in exum to bluff the sixers. They take 4/12/affalo for 1, thinking they'll get embiid. Sixers take embiid at 3. Cavs have no need for exum, so now their plans are screwed. Sixers offer to swap embiid for exum and 12. Cavs trying to make it seem like they have legit interest in exum.

That's kinda my read as well. Continuing my "they're playing chicken" theory, if the Sixers are bluffing they're going to pick Embiid if Cleveland trades down, then Cleveland's now trying to say "That's fine, we'll just pick Exum!" They know Exum isn't flying to Cleveland tonight, and that's why Exum's camp wanted assurance that they aren't being used as a pawn. But it's just another piece to make the Sixers blink.

How does it make the Sixers blink in a hypothetical where Sixers would take Exum over Embiid at 3 anyway

Also how could the information that Cavs will take Exum at 4 sway their decision to take Embiid at 3 (now assuming here that they prefer Embiid). They have to assume that Exum would be gone anyway, even if Sixers try to pick up another pick in back end of top 10

joe table wrote:Ok but Sixers are gonna take who they want at 3 regardless of what shitass Cavs want at 4. Unless, in the Sixers' estimation, passing on one or the other would cause that player to fall to 7 or 8 (seems impossible for both)