Hollinger Loves Elton Brand As you all know, I'm not a huge.an of John Hollinger's. Well, you can forget everything I've said about him in the past. The guy is obviously a genius. Check out his take on the Brand acquisition here. While I don't like Hollinger's obsessive use of PER as the be-all-end-all, at least he got the starting lineup right. On SportsCenter, ESPN was listing this as the Sixers' starting lineup heading into the season: PG: Andre Miller SG: Willie Green SF: Andre Iguodala PF: Elton Brand C: Samuel.Carney.

76ers To Sign Elton Brand! Calling All Phans For The Big Party! Tickets, Take a 76ers team which was knocked.t round by the Detroit Pistons. Subtract one helping of Rodney Carney and add one big helping of Elton Brand. Mix and let sit for 3 months. Serve at a big ass PARTAY! PARTY TIME PEOPLE! Miller, Iguodala, Young, Brand, Dalembert is a lot healthier than Miller, Green, Iguodala, Young, Dalembert. The Sixers still have the horses to run up and down the court, but now they actually have a presence in the power forward spot who is able.

Tuesday?s flurry of free agency signings House of blues cleveland, Wow. What looked like a two-horse race for the services of Elton Brand became a three-horse race when the Sixers freed up enough money to offer the talented forward a five-year, $82 million contract. Marc Stein's sources say Brand is headed .to Philly. Philadelphia has secured Brand's verbal commitment, sources said, after first reaching an agreement in principle with the Minnesota Timberwolves on a trade that, according to sources, will send Sixers forward Rodney Carney, center Calvin Booth.

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Reports Say Brand Will Sign With Sixers On Wednesday Carney estate, The ?Associated Press? and ?ESPN.com? are both reporting that the Philadelphia 76ers will sign free agent forward Elton Brand to a five year contract on Wednesday. The reports are that the deal will for $82 million dollars over the length of the pact. Brand who opted out of the last year of his contract was expected last week to return to his former team the Los Angeles Clippers. The Clippers got a verbal commitment from former Golden State Warriors point guard Baron Davis that he would sign .

LAT: Brand Agrees to Contract with Philadelphia Abrams' report: Elton Brand has reached a verbal agreement to sign a multiyear contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, according to an NBA source who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak on player movements. The deal is believed to be in the $80-million range and expected to span five years. Brand opted out of the final season of his Clippers contract last week to become a free agent. He was due $16.4 million had he stayed in the contract. The deal cannot be finalized . Carney tickets.

Elton Brand To The SIxers! espn.com The Philadelphia 76ers have apparently won the Elton Brand free-agent sweepstakes. NBA front-office sources told ESPN.com on Tuesday that Brand has informed the Sixers that he will accept a five-year deal worth an estimated $82 million and spurn what was presumed to be a slam-dunk return to the Los Angeles Clippers to hook up with Clipper-to-be Baron Davis. The Sixers cannot formally sign Brand before midnight, with Wednesday serving as the first day that NBA teams can offici. House of blues cleveland tickets.

Brand appears on his way to Sixers Carney ticket broker, The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Elton Brand and the 76ers are a done deal. By trading the salaries of Rodney Carney ($1.66 million) and Calvin Booth ($1.14 million) and the 2009 protected first-round pick they got from the Jazz in the Kyle Korver deal to the Timberwolves, the Sixers freed up enough money to increase their offer to Brand, an unrestricted free agent, from five years, $67 million to five years, $82.9 million (the first year went from $11.5 million to $14.3 million). Althou.

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Eskin?Sixers are close? ticket brokers, 610 WIP afternoon radio host Howard Eskin has stated on his show that the 76ers are very close in making Elton Brand part of their roster. Eskin also stated that it could be a sign-and-trade. In this day and age, the sign-and-trade is a very popular approach for NBA teams to use in getting something for their free agents. In baseball and football when a team loses a key free agent they are compensated with a draft pick. In basketball, not so much. NBA trades are usually very close to being.