{"id":35667,"date":"2025-05-15T22:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/35667\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:30:11","slug":"sixers-president-daryl-morey-gives-thoughts-on-rutgers-star-ace-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/35667\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers president Daryl Morey gives thoughts on Rutgers star Ace Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia 76ers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> hold the No. 3 pick of the 2025 NBA draft after the results of the lottery and there are no shortage of options. With the No. 3 pick, the Sixers can look at plenty of options such as Baylor&#8217;s VJ Edgecombe or Rutgers star Ace Bailey or whoever the Sixers may like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sixers star Paul George mentioned recently that he liked Bailey over Duke phenom Cooper Flagg on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2VKokYpyzJ7GptOeHRbx6W\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;Podcast P with Paul George&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">&#8220;Podcast P with Paul George&#8221;<\/a>&#8211;which was said before the NCAA Tournament, but still. While Flagg will absolutely be going No. 1 in the draft in June, it would make sense why George likes Bailey. After all, Bailey did say he models his game after George.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey gave some quick thoughts on Bailey on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/6cteRlNStqhuAqlhCGys2B?flow_ctx=7d7805f0-6471-4f00-9190-024cd9c8f6ec%3A1747359592\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;Takeoff with John Clark&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">&#8220;Takeoff with John Clark&#8221;<\/a>. Morey was asked about George&#8217;s comments on Bailey as well as his own thoughts on the Rutgers star:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">I haven&#8217;t spoken to Paul directly, although I was with his agent yesterday. The combine here is a big agent get together and look, Ace is a tremendous player. Absolutely someone we&#8217;re considering. We&#8217;re looking at, you know, every option at 3 and the players that we can pick, but we feel very good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bailey is clearly at the top of Morey&#8217;s mind as the Sixers look to move forward and get back on the track of title contention. This is a very talented roster, and adding a guy like Bailey, would certainly help this group in the future. Philadelphia will do its proper due diligence to make sure it makes the correct pick on June 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Sixers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/sixerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/sixers\/2025\/05\/15\/sixers-president-daryl-morey-gives-thoughts-on-rutgers-star-ace-bailey\/83652542007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sixers president Daryl Morey gives thoughts on Rutgers star Ace Bailey;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sixers president Daryl Morey gives thoughts on Rutgers star Ace Bailey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia 76ers hold the No. 3 pick of the 2025 NBA draft after the results of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,225,1332,6,526,678,207,3817],"class_list":{"0":"post-35667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-cooper-flagg","11":"tag-daryl-morey","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-paul-george","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","16":"tag-philadelphia76ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114514219901419618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}