There will be plenty of questions this offseason for the Philadelphia 76ers. The first one will be whether the Sixers will keep their pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. That’s first on the team’s checklist, but there will be others.
That includes who stays and who goes next season. Several players on this year’s team either will or could head into free agency this offseason. NBA Insiders Marc Stein and Jake Fischer reported on The Stein Line that three players will choose to opt in to return to the team next season.
“It does appear that the Sixers can go ahead and plan on veterans Kelly Oubre Jr., Andre Drummond, and Eric Gordon all returning next season,” Stein and Fischer wrote. “League sources say all three exercising their player options to return is Philadelphia's expectation.”
The two insiders added that those three returning reflect the current NBA free agency situation.
“The fact (that) those player options range from Gordon's $3.5 million to Oubre's $8.4 million also speaks to the belief that the market for free agents this summer does not exactly project to be player-friendly,” Stein and Fischer wrote.
While this means that all three will pick up their options for the 2026 season, that doesn’t mean they will be on the roster on opening night. Gordon and Drummond are not the players they once were, and neither exactly impressed in Philadelphia during the 2025 season. The team could choose to aggregate them to trade for an upgrade.
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It’s not like any of those three returning to Philadelphia will be a problem for the team. All three will be on expiring contracts, and none are on albatross contracts. There’s a possibility that the Sixers could use this to their advantage this offseason.
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