NBA Free Agency: J.J. Redick signs one-year deal with Philadelphia 76ers
By John Buhler
After four years with the Los Angeles Clippers, shooting guard J.J. Redick has signed a one-year deal worth $23 million with the Philadelphia 76ers.
J.J. Redick had spent the last four NBA seasons playing for the Los Angeles Clippers. He signed a four-year deal worth $29.6 million with a great opportunity to start in Los Angeles. However, he was certain to garner at least eight figures on the open market in 2017 NBA free agency.
On Saturday afternoon, Redick reportedly inked a one-year deal worth $23 million to play the 2017-18 NBA season with the Philadelphia 76ers. He tweeted out the 76ers’ signature phrase, “Trust The Process,” on his Twitter account before ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski broke news of the one-year deal.
Redick went to Los Angeles in the hopes of contending for an NBA Championship. Despite winning over 50 games a season in his four years with the Clippers, Redick is going to a team that hasn’t won more than 28 games during the same stretch. So what is the allure of going to Philadelphia?
JJ Redick has agreed to a one-year, $23 million deal with the 76ers, league sources tell ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 1, 2017
JJ Redick on agreement with 76ers: "It's where I wanted to be."
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 1, 2017
Well, the 76ers have the cap space to overpay for a player of Redick’s caliber, a good, but not great starting player on a contending basketball team. Redick will nearly make all the money he did with the Clippers in one year with the 76ers.
The growing expectation was that Redick would be going back East to sign with a non-contending team to make bank. He grew up on the east coast in rural Virginia and played his college ball at ACC powerhouse Duke.
While the 76ers aren’t a contending team by any means, they do have an interesting young corps that might be good enough this spring to make the Eastern Conference Playoffs. They were in need of a solid wing shooter. Redick absolutely provides that.
Look for him to start for the 76ers next to Markelle Fultz, Ben Simmons, Dario Saric and Joel Embiid. That’s an interesting starting five for Philadelphia head coach Brett Brown. This year’s 76ers team should be a lot of fun to watch. Trust The Process.