The 2024-25 season was a disastrous yr for the Philadelphia 76ers. Former league MVP Joel Embiid performed simply 19 video games as a result of damage.
He was not the one Sixer to overlook prolonged time as a result of damage final season. Tyrese Maxey missed 30 video games, and Paul George missed 40 video games. Regardless of their unlucky luck in 2024-25, the 76ers are operating again the core of their group. On Friday, ESPN’s NBA insider Shams Charania reported that veteran massive man Andre Drummond has picked up his $5 million participant choice. Drummond will play for the Sixers in 2025-26.
Andre Drummond has exercised his $5 million participant choice to stay with the 76ers
Philadelphia 76ers heart Andre Drummond has picked up his $5 million participant choice for the 2025-26 season, sources inform ESPN.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 27, 2025
With the ninth decide within the 2012 NBA draft, the Detroit Pistons chosen Andre Drummond out of UConn. He performed the primary eight and a half seasons of his profession with Detroit. They traded him in 2019-20 to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Since then, Drummond has bounced across the league taking part in for 5 franchises. Forward of the 2024-25 season, Drummond signed a two-year, $10 million cope with the Philadelphia 76ers.
The second season of that two-year deal was a $5 million participant choice. Shams Charania introduced Friday that Andre Drummond will train that $5 million choice to stick with the Sixers. Final season, Drummond performed in 40 of their 82 video games and made 23 begins. By the top of 2024-25, the Sixers have been tanking, and veteran gamers didn’t see the court docket. Drummond was one in every of them.
In 2025-26, the Sixers hope Andre Drummond is used sparingly. That will imply 2022-23 league MVP Joel Embiid is wholesome sufficient to play a majority of the yr for Philadelphia. Drummond will likely be coming into his 14th skilled season and his second with the 76ers. Final season, the veteran massive man averaged 7.3 factors, 7.8 rebounds, and 1.0 steals per recreation. For the manufacturing he can nonetheless give the group, Andre Drummond is nicely value his $5 million price ticket subsequent season.
