Spitzer on Sixers

The Sixers need to follow the Celtics model from last year in order to win it all.

In the current NBA you can't dominate conventionally through some draft picks and some FA's - teams overspend for free agents and there's only a finite amount of money teams have to spend. For the next 5 years or so also, I don't really see a team in either league that will dominate consistently like the bulls in the 90's or lakers from 99-2001. Spurs are getting old, mavs are old too, celtics aren't as good as they were last year, pistons are past their primes, and the young stars of the early part of this decade - kobe, vince, t mac, iverson, nowitzki, kg, duncan, arenas - will never be the same again (which is good that we have a young, in-tact nucleus of iggy, thad, lou will, speights).

Basically the sixers need to let miller go after this year, replace him with lou (and try and have him be a slasher/dtstributor like rondo) and use the freed up cap space as some financial flexibility in making a trade for a ray allen-esque player (michael redd??).

All of a sudden you're looking at a team of lou will, michael redd, iguodala, brand, dalembert (to continue my celtics parable - a kendrick perkins clone), with thad (similar to james posey but better), rush, ivey, jason smith, and reggie evans on the bench.

That team next year will be so far and away the best team in the east - better than boston next year, better than detroit (assuming iverson jets), better than orlando, toronto, and the cavs.

Make it happen stefanski