{"id":3968,"date":"2017-02-23T11:44:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T16:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2017-02-23T12:09:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T17:09:36","slug":"76ers-trade-nerlens-noel-dallas-mavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/02\/23\/76ers-trade-nerlens-noel-dallas-mavs\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers Trade Nerlens Noel to Dallas Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, the Philadelphia 76ers have traded forward\/center <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/n\/noelne01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nerlens Noel<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to the Dallas Mavericks for swingman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/anderju01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Anderson<\/a><\/strong>, center <strong>Andrew Bogut<\/strong>,\u00a0and a first-round pick. Marc Stein of ESPN later reported the pick <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNSteinLine\/status\/834807283695562752\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to be protected if it is 18th or better<\/a> in the upcoming 2017 NBA Draft. Adrian Wojnarowski of <em>The Vertical<\/em> was broke the news on Thursday morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Philadelphia is sending Nerlens Noel to Dallas for Justin Anderson and a first-round draft pick, league sources tell @TheVertical.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/834806620102197248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dallas center Andrew Bogut will go to the 76ers in the Noel trade too, league source tells @TheVertical.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/834807116393242625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>76ers Trade Nerlens Noel to\u00a0Dallas Mavericks<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The 76ers are expected to buy out Bogut after the trade, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WindhorstESPN\/status\/834808026565591041\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to Brian Windhorst of ESPN<\/a>. That will allow Bogut to sign with a playoff team before the end of the season. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes\/status\/834809743441031168\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Haynes of ESPN reports<\/a> that the Cleveland Cavaliers have been interested in the veteran center all season.<\/p>\n<p>Noel, on the other hand, still has a ton of potential, as he is a young and developing player. The Mavericks will benefit greatly from the skills that he can bring to the table, especially on the defensive end.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old is in the final year of his rookie contract, as he will be a restricted free agent in the upcoming summer. Because of this, Noel was the clear choice to move in order to free up the crowded Sixers frontcourt.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Noel&#8217;s trade value was much higher for a move than that of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/o\/okafoja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jahlil Okafor<\/a><\/strong>. The former Duke center is gifted offensively on the low block, but his defense and questionable commitment to the team would cause him to yield less valuable assets than a Noel deal.<\/p>\n<p>Noel was selected by the New Orleans Pelicans with the sixth pick in the 2013 NBA Draft, only to be dealt immediately for one-time All-Star <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/holidjr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jrue Holiday<\/a><\/strong>. This deal officially began former Sixers general manager\u00a0<strong>Sam Hinkie<\/strong>&#8216;s rebuilding process take shape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Process&#8221; started with the acquisition of Noel; this deal shows that everything may finally be coming together for the 76ers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia 76ers trade Nerlens Noel to the Dallas Mavericks for Justin Anderson and a first-round pick, turning the page in Philly&#8217;s &#8220;Process&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":870,"featured_media":3928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,30,62,3],"tags":[158,65,175,272,764,96,202,662,45,225],"class_list":["post-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-76ers","category-mavericks","category-nba","category-news","tag-andrew-bogut","tag-basketball","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-jahlil-okafor","tag-justin-anderson","tag-nba","tag-nba-news","tag-nba-trade-deadline","tag-nerlens-noel","tag-philadelphia-76ers"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}