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Well, the Sixers’ options for high-level wing players are dropping like flies.

Less than 24 hours after trading just about every possible first-round pick for Mikal Bridges, the New York Knicks bolstered up their squad by re-signing wing OG Anunoby to a five-year, $212.5 million dollar extension, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

This doesn’t come as a huge shock, as many reports in the past few days pointed to Anunoby’s return to the team that acquired him at the trade deadline. The Knicks taking a week once the season ended to get this extension done — and their hesitancy to give him a fifth year and over $40 million per year — had some believing he may look elsewhere.

The Sixers were one of the team’s rumored to be interested in Anunoby’s services.Whether they had much of a chance to sign him is another thing. SNY’s Ian Begley reported that Anunoby received max offers from other teams but chose to stay with the Knicks.

It locks the Knicks into this core. After this signing and the Bridges trade, they are essentially all tapped out of assets.

The Sixers on the other hand, remain with all their cap space in place, and they don’t have to worry about paying $42 million a year to a player who’s never made an All-Star game and has nagging injury concerns every season. They will have to field a team at some point though, and time and players are running out.

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