{"id":42144,"date":"2025-05-19T01:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T01:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/42144\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T01:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T01:26:12","slug":"dylan-harper-gives-thought-on-potential-sixers-prospect-ace-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/42144\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Harper gives thought on potential Sixers prospect 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> have the No. 3 pick in the 2025 NBA draft after the lottery results and a tough 24-58 season. The Sixers were expected to contend for a title, but instead, had their season ravaged by injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Through the storm, however, there is some sunshine with the No. 3 pick in their possession. President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey has stated in the past that the Sixers will be making a selection&#8211;obviously, that can change&#8211;but there are a lot of options with that selection on June 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The popular pick at No. 3 is Rutgers star Ace Bailey. He can do a lot of things on the offensive end as he averaged 17.6 points and 7.2 rebounds while shooting 46% from the floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bailey&#8217;s teammate at Rutgers, Dylan Harper, will likely be going No. 2 in the draft. As he spoke with reporters in Chicago at the draft combine, he gave his thoughts on what Bailey can do:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pro. That&#8217;s how I describe it. Pro. He can score when he wants to. He can play make. Facilitate. Defend. He can do everything. A lot of y&#8217;all see his scoring, but I think his IQ is very underrated. I think not a lot of people understand his IQ&#8230;From a scoring standpoint, he\u2019s 6-10, he sees over everyone. I probably haven\u2019t seen a scorer better than him. A young T-Mac.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bailey will undoubtedly be at the top of the board for the Sixers. He can do a lot of different things and has the height that Philadelphia needs at the moment. However, the Sixers can look at VJ Edgecombe and Tre Johnson as well. There will be a lot of work to do over the next couple of weeks.<\/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\/18\/dylan-harper-gives-thought-on-potential-sixers-prospect-ace-bailey\/83710090007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dylan Harper gives thought on potential Sixers prospect Ace Bailey;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dylan Harper gives thought on potential Sixers prospect Ace Bailey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia 76ers have the No. 3 pick in the 2025 NBA draft after the lottery results and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,224,7,909,1332,226,560,6,678,207,3817,209],"class_list":{"0":"post-42144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-ace-bailey","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-cade-cunningham","12":"tag-daryl-morey","13":"tag-dylan-harper","14":"tag-james-harden","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-philadelphia","17":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","18":"tag-philadelphia76ers","19":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114531898989404033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42144","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=42144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}