Sixers’ Redick will commute from New York to Philadelphia

When you’ve played in the NBA for over a decade, you get a little bit of leeway to do things your own way.

J.J. Redick, fresh off inking a one-year, $23 million deal with the 76ers this past offseason, is really taking that privilege to an extreme. In a feature story for Sports Illustrated, the elder statesman of The Process revealed that he will be splitting time between the city where he plays and the city were his family stays.

During the upcoming season — and throughout offseason activities — Redick will be occasionally commuting about 90 minutes from his family home in Brooklyn to Philadelphia for practice and games.

The 33-year-old father of two recently moved to New York so that his wife Chelsea could be closer to family and from the sounds of it, they don’t plan on leaving their new home any time soon.

Redick does have a Philadelphia-area apartment and he will spend most of his time in Pennsylvania or at the team’s training facility in Camden, New Jersey. But on days when he can, he plans on driving home to be with his family.

The veteran shooting guard had originally planned on taking the train, “I’m all about public transpo,” Redick said in the SI interview. But he has since resigned himself to driving the 100 plus miles between his home and work. He says podcasts will be a major part of his commute.

Redick says that because the NBA season is only seven to eight months out of the year, it wouldn’t make sense for him to uproot his family. That kind of levelheadedness is something that comes only from a veteran who has seen everything in the league.

Redick will bring that composure and thoughtfulness to a Sixers team that will desperately need some veteran guidance. And on days when he’s away from Chelsea and his two sons, he’ll still have a chance to act as a fatherly figure… only in Philadelphia his sons are named Joel and Ben Markelle.

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Redick will be an unrestricted free agent following the season. Maybe by then one of the New York teams will look more enticing than in this last offseason. If not, he’ll have a lot of podcasts to burn through. We think he might be interested in this one, seems right up his alley.