A former first-round pick playing overseas is making his way back home to America for the rest of the NBA season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to multiple reports, most credibly Marc Stein, Cameron Payne is joining the Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> in a “rest-of-the-season” deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n Cameron Payne has spent last two months in Europe<\/p>\n Payne has been playing with the EuroLeague club commonly known as Partizan Belgrade since signing in December.\u00a0<\/p>\n Partizan will reportedly receive $1,750,000 as a buyout for the transfer, per TeleSport<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCameron Payne is a low-risk, high-reward addition for 76ers\u00a0<\/p>\n Adding Payne, 31, will provide the 76ers with a veteran guard to bolster the depth of their lineup as they continue to push toward a return to the playoffs. Payne will also be an easy player to plug into the lineup due to his familiarity with the 76ers coaching staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n He spent the second half of the 2023-24 season with Philadelphia after a deadline trade. He put up 9.3 points per game in 31 games played and eight starts with the 76ers. \u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCameron Payne brings playoff experience to Philadelphia\u00a0<\/p>\n Payne then pivoted his strong play with Philadelphia to a one-year stint with the Knicks<\/a>, playing a key role off the bench in New York’s run to the Eastern Conference Finals last season. He averaged 6.9 points in 72 games and five starts with the Knicks.\u00a0<\/p>\n Payne now becomes a low-risk, high-reward option for a 76ers team trying to tread water as Paul George serves the rest of his suspension for violating the league’s anti-drug policy. And despite Tyrese Maxey’s dominant play and Joel Embiid enjoying a resurgence, the 76ers are clinging to a 30-24 record as the East’s sixth seed.\u00a0<\/p>\n Mostly known for being part of the 2021 Suns team that reached the NBA Finals, Payne could help stabilize Philadelphia’s place in the postseason and then attempt to make a run once there.\u00a0<\/p>\n Payne, who was selected by the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> with the 14th pick in the 2015 NBA Draft, has spent time with the Thunder, Chicago Bulls<\/a>, Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>, the Shanxi Loongs in China, Phoenix Suns<\/a>, Milwaukee Bucks<\/a>, 76ers and Knicks. He holds a 7.8 PPG average in 477 career NBA games to this point. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former first-round pick playing overseas is making his way back home to America for the rest of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,6,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-606581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nba-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606581","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=606581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}