The Philadelphia 76ers’ roster for the end of the 2025-26 season is expected to take shape this week.

Reports indicate that the 76ers are adding veteran guard Cam Payne to the roster as a free agent for the rest of the season while converting Jabari Walker to a standard deal.

To fill the vacant two-way spot, the 76ers are signing Tyrese Martin.

Walker has played in 45 games this season, including six starts early in the season. He’s averaging 3.7 points, 3.1 rebounds and 12.1 minutes per game. He’d fallen out of the rotation in late January, playing a total of 40 minutes over six appearances in nine games.

He’s been in limbo since the trade deadline, with Walker’s 50 games of two-way eligibility used up and the Sixers’ roster full. The 10-day contracts filling the roster had to elapse for the team to convert him to a standard deal, which has forced Walker to be inactive for the last four games.

Walker and Dominick Barlow both signed two-way deals to start the season. Barlow was converted to a standard deal first, on Feb. 5.

Payne, 31, offers a way for the 76ers to lighten the load on Tyrese Maxey with a fourth playable guard. He had been with Serbian club KK Partizan this season after spending the preseason with the Pacers.

Payne spent last season with the Knicks, playing 72 games and starting five while averaging 6.9 points, 2.8 assists and 15.1 minutes per game. In the postseason, he supplied 2.1 points in 7.3 minutes over 14 appearances. Payne is a career 36.8 percent 3-point shooter, including 39.0 in the 2023-24 season.

There’s precedent for such a move: Payne was acquired by the 76ers at the trade deadline in 2024 for Patrick Beverley.

He played 31 games (eight starts) down the stretch, averaging 9.3 points, 3.1 assists and 19.4 minutes per game. He added a vital 11 points in the Game 3 win over the Knicks in the first round of the playoffs that year.

Payne was the 14th overall pick in the 2015 NBA Draft. He’s played 477 career NBA games with Oklahoma City, Chicago, Cleveland, Phoenix, Milwaukee, the Sixers and the Knicks.

Martin, 26, is an Allentown native who finished his high school career in Virginia.

The 6-6 shooting guard was a second-round pick in 2022. He played 16 games in Atlanta that season, then 97 over the last two years with the Brooklyn Nets, who waived him at the deadline. He had signed on an Exhibit 10 contract that turned into a two-way.

He averaged 7.3 points and 1.9 assists in 18.8 minutes this season. He’s a career 34.2 percent shooter from 3-point range.

The moves would mean the 76ers went from Jared McCain and Eric Gordon — plus Barlow and Walker on two-way deals in need of conversion for them to play in the playoffs — before the deadline to Payne and two-day deals for Jalen Terry and Martin after.

The Sixers also added four draft picks, including a 2026 first-rounder, acquired for McCain and, perhaps most crucially for the ownership group, one luxury tax bill successfully avoided.