{"id":592753,"date":"2026-02-09T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/592753\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:56:13","slug":"sixers-hope-to-be-active-on-buyout-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/592753\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers Hope To Be Active On Buyout Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sixers are in position to add two players on the buyout market, with Chris Boucher<\/a>, Lonzo Ball<\/a> and Haywood Highsmith<\/a> among the potential targets, writes Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> (subscription required). Pompey cites Khris Middleton<\/a> as another possibility if he agrees to a buyout with the Mavericks.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia currently has two players holding 10-day contracts, with Charles Bassey<\/a> on his second and Patrick Baldwin Jr.<\/a> on his first. Both will expire on Saturday, giving the team two open roster spots.<\/p>\n

In addition, Paul George<\/a> has already served five games of his 25-game suspension<\/a> for taking a banned substance, so he can be moved to the suspended list, allowing the Sixers to add another player until he returns in late March.<\/p>\n

However, finances will factor into the decisions. Philadelphia is currently $1.57MM below the tax line and $3.75MM away from the first apron. The team can add two rest-of-the-season minimum-salary contracts without moving into tax territory, according to Pompey.<\/p>\n

Boucher and Ball were both traded to Utah on Thursday and waived<\/a> by the end of the day. Boucher, a 33-year-old big man, appeared in just nine games with Boston before being dealt. He spent five seasons playing for Sixers head coach Nick Nurse in Toronto.<\/p>\n

Ball, a 28-year-old guard, played 35 games for Cleveland this season, mostly in a reserve role. Pompey notes that he could provide backcourt depth after Jared McCain<\/a> and Eric Gordon<\/a> were both traded last week.<\/p>\n

Highsmith, a 29-year-old forward, was waived<\/a> by Brooklyn to open up a roster spot for a three-team deal. He hasn\u2019t played yet this season after undergoing surgery<\/a> on a torn meniscus in August, but he\u2019s nearing a recovery and is attracting interest<\/a> from several playoff teams. Pompey points out that Highsmith began his career as a two-way player with the Sixers in 2019.<\/p>\n

Middleton, who was sent from Washington to Dallas in the Anthony Davis<\/a> trade<\/a>, is the biggest name on the list. There\u2019s been speculation that the 34-year-old swingman may become available, but there have been no reported buyout talks and he plans to make his Mavericks debut<\/a> Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The Sixers could fill one of their open spots by promoting forward Jabari Walker<\/a> to a standard contract, Pompey adds. Walker reached his 50-game limit<\/a> on a two-way contract last week and has been inactive for the team\u2019s last two contests.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been a tremendous next man up type contributor,\u201d president of basketball operations\u00a0Daryl Morey said of Walker. \u201cWe hope to have his services going forward, but we do have to weigh optimal use of our sort of scarce two roster spots, and against the other opportunities as well. So that\u2019ll be written over time, whether or not we do that conversion there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sixers are in position to add two players on the buyout market, with Chris Boucher, Lonzo Ball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,7009,10761,2293,7213,2039,4442,16705,526],"class_list":["post-592753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-charles-bassey","tag-chris-boucher","tag-haywood-highsmith","tag-jabari-walker","tag-khris-middleton","tag-lonzo-ball","tag-patrick-baldwin-jr","tag-paul-george"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116041494416354493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592753","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=592753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}