There has been much speculation about which players from the Philadelphia 76ers are up for trade, and its president Bryan Colangelo recently confirmed that four of its big men may be parting ways with the team soon.
In a recent interview with SiriusXM NBA Radio, Colangelo admitted that Nerlens Noel, Jahlil Okafor, Joel Embiid, and Richaun Holmes may be traded to other teams.
He explained that the Philadelphia 76ers needs to resolve its massive logjam in their young frontcourt, thus making trading one of the big men a strong possibility.
"There's no question you can look at our roster and say we have some imbalance," Colangelo said, as quoted by the International Business Times.
"We're top heavy. We've got some good talent there," the 76ers president added, "whether its Nerlens at the five with a certain skill set in terms of being of a defensive player, you've got Jahlil who's more of an offensive player, he's got a lot of post action, he steps outside now and hits that 15,18-foot shot. And then you've got Joel that we talked about."
Colangelo also revealed that he has already received calls from other team officials expressing interest in one of the Philadelphia 76ers' big men.
"When you look at the calls that are coming in, yea, quite frankly everybody's trying to poach a big man from us," he said. "I told Jahlil this morning at practice, I said, 'Listen I love the way you handled it the other day 'so called sources,' I blasted the same guy cause I was a little concerned about these unknown sources saying that we're out shopping him.
He however categorically denied he was testing Okafor's trade value.
"It's completely untrue, and I would tell you, again, we have to listen, that's part of my job, I have to make this roster better. I have to make this basketball team better, but to classify it or characterize it as 'shopping' him that's not the case at all," Colangelo said.
