{"id":3056,"date":"2012-08-10T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T14:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2012-08-10T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T14:11:59","slug":"breaking-sixers-acquire-andrew-bynum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3056","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Sixers Acquire Andrew Bynum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is kind of out of nowhere, right?\u00a0 But, as reported by intrepid BSB reporter, J, the Sixers have indeed acquired 24-year old enigmatic, yet other-worldly talented center, Andrew Bynum from the Lakers for Andre Iguodala, Nicola Vucevic, and Mo Harkless.\u00a0 Wow!<\/p>\n<p>Here are my immediate reactions, without hearing anything but the players involved:<\/p>\n<p><em>You Gotta Love it!<\/em>\u00a0<br \/>\nAny time you can get a top 3 center, you kind of <em>have <\/em>to do it.\u00a0 Oh, and did I mention that he&#8217;s only 24?\u00a0 Plus, in an era, where it&#8217;s increasingly difficult, yet increasingly important to acquire a true superstar, you have to take a chance sometimes to get one.\u00a0 And, being the 8-seed in the Eastern Conference every year would make it next to impossible to get a star.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Andrew Bynum\" src=\"http:\/\/lakers.topbuzz.com\/gallery\/d\/289624-1\/Andrew+Bynum+2+handed+power+dunk+vs+Mozgov.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Will Bynum Stay?<\/em><br \/>\nThis deal becomes REALLY bad, REALLY fast if Andrew Bynum becomes Philly&#8217;s version of Dwight Howard (who, by the way, was a part of this deal, in case you haven&#8217;t heard&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><em>Iggy Will Be Missed More than People Realize, But Could Open the Door For Development Elsewhere<\/em><br \/>\nThe dude is good.\u00a0 But, as has been said many, many times, he&#8217;s not irreplaceable, and the Sixers have about a thousand swingmen on the team, so this might actually be good for guys like Evan Turner, newly-acquired Nick Young, and even Thaddeus Young.<\/p>\n<p><em>How Good is Mo Harkless Going to Be?<\/em><br \/>\nNot that there is ANY reason to hold up the acquisition of a 24-year old stud center for a guy who played 1 decent year at St. John&#8217;s, but there are a lot of people very high on Harkless.\u00a0 That being said, to get something big, you have to be willing to part with something big.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s just not think that Bynum is the only risk the Sixers took here.\u00a0 They also took a risk by unloading a guy with tremendous upside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is kind of out of nowhere, right?\u00a0 But, as reported by intrepid BSB reporter, J, the Sixers have indeed acquired 24-year old enigmatic, yet other-worldly talented center, Andrew Bynum from the Lakers for Andre Iguodala, Nicola Vucevic, and Mo &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3056\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[573,1275,93],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-andre-iguodala","tag-andrew-bynum","tag-sixers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}