Philadelphia PA: As the enter country gets ready to celebrate the holiday season, some teams continue to find ways to make their team better. On Thursday the 76ers made a Christmas Eve trade that has a lot of people scratching their heads as the 76ers have traded two second round picks to the New Orleans Pelicans for PG Ish Smith & also have released PG Tony Wroten. The 76ers have the Worst record in the NBA at 1-30 and they need to shake things up lead by new chairman of basketball operations Jerry Colangelo. Wroten was in his 8th game this season after he had a partially torn ACL, which he suffered midway through the 2014-15 season.
Below is Press Release from the 76ers about the Trade with the New Orleans Pelicans
Ish Smith was on the 76ers roster during the 2014-15 season played only 25 games & started 14 of them and would score 301 points with 152 assist and 32 steals with 152 rebounds.
Tony Wroten reaction to being released
Wanna thank the whole philly community, coaching staff, and all my teammates. Enjoyed my time in philly. Going to miss my guys.
— Tony Wroten (@TWroten_LOE) December 24, 2015
But……. Will show them what mistake they’ve made. #SavageSzn
— Tony Wroten (@TWroten_LOE) December 24, 2015
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