Defensively, with Joel Embiid and Al Horford now, that’s a big frontcourt. But last year, you guarded a lot of fours, you even guarded Marc Gasol in the playoffs. Have you been talked to that you’re going to have to guard more threes? And is that something you’ve done? Tobias Harris: Yeah, I’ll be guarding threes. And in L.A., I was guarding threes at the beginning of the season. So I’m fine with that. I’ve been working on my defense and my lateral quickness all summer. I’m impressed with a lot of the things I’m getting better at.
Al Horford Rumors
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Position: C-F
Born: 06/03/86
Height: 6-10 / 2.08
Weight:235 lbs. / 106.6 kg.
Salary: $28,000,000
Born: 06/03/86
Height: 6-10 / 2.08
Weight:235 lbs. / 106.6 kg.
Salary: $28,000,000
In looking at his new team, Richardson noted something he thought he would never see, that he will be the smallest player in the starting lineup. The rest of the projected lineup is 6-10 point guard Ben Simmons, 6-9 small forward Tobias Harris, 6-10 power forward Al Horford and 7-2 center Joel Embiid. “I have never been that ever in my life,” Richardson said about being the smallest. “This will be interesting, looking up to my teammates, talking in huddles.”
14 Aug
Ben Rohrbach: Al Horford to @dpshow on Celtics reportedly accusing 76ers of tampering: “What can I say? It’s pretty ridiculous, but it is what it is. I love Danny. He was always really good to me, and I know that he’s definitely frustrated that things didn’t work out with us.”
The problem: It wasn’t true. The contract Horford and the Sixers agreed to contains $12 million in non-guaranteed money in the final year of the deal, not in bonus money. The triggers for this non-guaranteed portion of the salary are similar to what was previously reported: an additional $5 million if Horford’s team (the Sixers, as of now) reaches the NBA Finals, and the full $12 million becomes guaranteed if his team wins the Finals.
Speaking on his “Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective Show” podcast that was published on Thursday, Windhorst said he was told the Celtics were bothered by the tampering surrounding Horford. “Celtics were, from what I am told, one of the teams that kind of stomped their feet about what they felt was tampering. Not with Kyrie … but with (Al) Horford. What happened with Horford, from what I am told, really upset the Celtics. They were thinking that they were going to be able to negotiate with him, talk to him about a new contract, and all of a sudden it was like he already knew what his market was like and was out of there,” Windhorst said.
