Overview
- The Philadelphia 76ers announced Wednesday that President of Basketball Operations Mike Gansey signed 13-year veteran Kentavious Caldwell-Pope to a standard contract, completing the team’s 14-player roster.
- Reporting cites a Memphis buyout of roughly $3,876,529 that equals Caldwell-Pope’s one-year minimum and a reported Sixers cap hit of about $2,449,421, though the team did not disclose terms in its press release.
- Philadelphia cleared space to make the signing by trading Johni Broome to the Los Angeles Clippers and now sits about $1.8 million below the NBA’s first-apron hard cap, which bars further veteran minimum additions for the season under current timing rules.
- Caldwell-Pope is a two-time NBA champion and established three-and-D wing whose experience is expected to provide perimeter shooting and defense around a star-driven core led by LeBron James and Joel Embiid.
- With the standard roster full, the Sixers’ practical remaining moves are a third two-way signing or small internal adjustments such as moving partially guaranteed deals to free room for a veteran earlier in the year.