He’s an asset to the Sixers because he can play shooting guard, small forward, and small-ball power forward. However, his name keeps coming up as someone the Sixers could possibly move before the Feb. 5 trade deadline because his expiring $8.3 million contract would help them gain salary cap relief and avoid the luxury tax. The squad is currently more than $7 million over the luxury-tax threshold.

The Sixers could also get salary cap relief by moving the expiring contracts of Andre Drummond ($5.0 million) and Eric Gordon ($3.6 million with a dead cap hit of $2.2 million). Letting Drummond and Gordon go would be viewed as a softer blow than trading Oubre.

ktm5141 | 76ers

91 | 6 hours ago

Josh Harris helicopter fuel fund > playoffs

bigraptorr | Raptors

7 | 4 hours ago

Josh is a little boys name

vbvahunter | Wizards

1 | 2 hours ago

He’s focused on the Commies now!

Gerald_the_sealion | 76ers

63 | 6 hours ago

Listen, if we get rid of Oubre we are losing one of are most handsome players. We’re a couple short of having a runway of handsome.

drjisftw | Pacers

13 | 6 hours ago

The handsomeness of the 76ers has gone downhill since Raul Neto left unfortunately

Gerald_the_sealion | 76ers

4 | 5 hours ago

The jawline. But first, it went downhill when we lost TJ

girlfriend_pregnant | 76ers

2 | an hour ago

I mean we are still absolutely stacked

nightjarre | Lakers

5 | 5 hours ago

Best face card in the league 😂

Childish___Glover

62 | 6 hours ago

Oubre has the athleticism, size, and ability to guard the opponent’s best player. They threw him at Brunson in the 2024 playoffs and he did well. On offense he’ll make a couple boneheaded plays a game or take a couple of shots that will make you shake your head, but he will be important come playoff time. Would be a headscratcher to get rid of him.

Delicious-Physics218 | 76ers

46 | 5 hours ago

It’s a head scratcher unless you consider Josh Harris has low key been a bottom 5 owner in the NBA and continues to be trash

Eagle7546_ | Jazz

8 | 5 hours ago

Gotta start saving money for that Jayden Daniels contract

girlfriend_pregnant | 76ers

1 | an hour ago

Yeah but have you considered the fact that keeping him might cost our owner .0001% of his net worth?

Sell the team, dork.

RoscoeSantangelo | 76ers

29 | 6 hours ago

I honestly lose faith in us having any chance at a playoff run without Oubre. One of the guys that’s proven he can step up if the stars aren’t contributing (as well as being a great piece around them when they are)

GreenTheOlive | 76ers

24 | 5 hours ago

If we dump Oubre to avoid the luxury tax we’re just not a serious franchise. Our window is so small with this squad, if they aren’t willing to go for it when everyone’s healthy when would they ever try to?

EarthWarping | NBA

2 | 5 hours ago

Classic Harris move too.

Kennyc1234 | Wizards

14 | 6 hours ago

Oubre is a really good player and they’d be stupid to get rid of him

Drummond+Gordon makes much more sense seeing as Drummond seems to be the 3rd string center behind Bona when Embiid plays, and Gordon literally gets no playing time.

Cute-Contract-6762

13 | 5 hours ago

Totally unrelated, enjoy josh Harris running your football team lmao

Kennyc1234 | Wizards

9 | 5 hours ago

Listen man we had to deal with decades of Dan Snyder as our owner

Our 2nd year with Harris was better than every Snyder year combined. There’s levels to being a shitty owner.

cvc4455

4 | 3 hours ago

You’re right. As shitty as Harris possibly could be it’s still an upgrade over Snyder.

Cute-Contract-6762

2 | 4 hours ago

Oh things started good with us too. Just be patient

Saitsuofleaves

1 | 43 minutes ago

I don’t think Harris is a good owner either…but Snyder is in his own tier of evil and bullshittery. It will take quite a while before it turns sour in DC over Harris because honestly, a simply incompetent owner is still a significant improvement.

Feelscreative101 | 76ers

2 | 4 hours ago

We would have to replace Drumm + EG with 2 other players as we are on 14 roster slots. The cheapest possible would be prorated mininimums for Barlow and Walker who are on 2 way contracts with us. This saves just under 5m, and does not dodge luxury tax. Selling Oubre + EG and converting Barlow + Walker dodges tax.

girlfriend_pregnant | 76ers

1 | 44 minutes ago

Drummond has been great in his role this year though and is one of our chief vibe setters.

Palmisavage | 76ers

14 | 5 hours ago

They really need to rename luxury tax into anything else. Billionaires are going to instinctively avoid any taxes. Don’t worry, owners, the money goes back into the league instead of helping people.

cvc4455

2 | 3 hours ago

Harris also needs to realize that the better the team is the better the odds we could go further in the playoffs and with as much as tickets, parking, beer, food and whatever other shit there costs he’ll make at least a few million extra every round further we go. But yes, he should also be aware that the money that’s called a tax doesn’t actually go towards helping people.

j_bus | Raptors

1 | 13 minutes ago

Luxury tariffs?

Chief_Slowburn | 76ers

7 | 6 hours ago

I wish Josh Harris would sell the sixers so he can focus on his darling commies. Kelly has been amazing for us this year it would be preposterous to trade him for financial reasons

Pyromania1983 | 76ers

4 | 6 hours ago

However, Oubre was inserted into the starting lineup last night and was awesome so I could see the second option (Drummond/Gordon) combined for one player, and then convert Dominick Barlow and Jabari Walker to standard NBA deals.

UnanimousM

5 | 5 hours ago

why was Gordon ever brought back in the first place he’s a pure benchwarmer

Science4me12

6 | 5 hours ago

he had a player option.

EagleswonSuperBowl52 | 76ers

2 | 3 hours ago

He had a player option. But it helped us more to re-sign him vs him accepting his player option so that’s the agreement the team and him came to. He was never leaving in free agency.

nicktesluk | PHI

1 | 5 hours ago

The only thing I can think of is his familiarity with VJ from their time on the Bahamas team

Defiant_Regular3738

1 | 5 hours ago

He’s still decent and a solid ass vet. Every team needs a couple.

lalakingmalibog | Mavericks

1 | 4 hours ago

He’s there to call the National Weather Service

bigraptorr | Raptors

1 | 4 hours ago

Moreys bestie

shangalang69 | Raptors

5 | 5 hours ago

they would be stupid as fuck to let him go just to duck the tax, he is a key rotation player at a position of need. i’ll take him!

Key-Two31

4 | 5 hours ago

Genuinely hope Josh Harris loses every asset to his name and becomes homeless

huck_ | 76ers

3 | 4 hours ago

This probably isn’t going to happen. The team was set up to trade him to avoid the tax if they were ass again, but they’re looking like a playoff team. People should not get mad about things that haven’t even happened.

ABagOfPopcorn | 76ers

3 | 5 hours ago

Oubre’s biggest problem is that Nurse is in love with him and always wants him to close or start even when he’s cold or being a bozo. He plays much better with Embiid so I think he’s probably safe

NNSWhy | 76ers

3 | 5 hours ago

This might be true, but Keith Pompey is probably the worst sports Philly sports journalist (and that’s saying something). He seems to only report on drama or negative stuff.

Unrelated, I recently sat behind him at a game and he got caught on his chair while standing up and looked dumb as hell

FadeRunna | 76ers

2 | 4 hours ago

🤣🤣at the Unrelated part.

FadeRunna | 76ers

3 | 4 hours ago

Keep his name out your mouth.

EaglesnSixers | 76ers

2 | 5 hours ago

Don’t you fucking dare. Leave Kelly alone

LateGreat_MalikSealy | Wizards

2 | 3 hours ago

Oubre has come a long way as a player since his wizards days. Still can be erratic at times but has steadily elevated his decision making and shooting nonetheless…

MundaneExtension3195

1 | 6 hours ago

I’m sure Philly wants some second rnd capital for Drummond and Gordon, so I doubt they are going to find a deal

cvc4455

3 | 3 hours ago

They shouldn’t trade Drummond either if Embiid and PG stay healthy. Drummond hasn’t been horrible as a backup this year and he’s even kind of added a 3 ball so he’s not as completely useless on offense anymore..

water_radio

1 | 4 hours ago

No problem, he can move ~~right into my house~~

dancingonthevoid

1 | 3 hours ago

They need to move him now to avoid the tax? Somebody explain that. Why can’t they just let him expire at the end of the season? If they move him, wont they have to take salary back?

[Pompey] Kelly Oubre Jr.has contributed to the Sixers because he’s been good and has positional flexibility. However, his name keeps coming up as someone to possibly move before the trade deadline as his expiring contract would help them gain salary cap relief and avoid the luxury tax.