{"id":234069,"date":"2026-07-02T20:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234069\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:05:09","slug":"sixers-grab-a-guard-in-free-agency-agree-to-deal-with-anfernee-simons-nbc-sports-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234069\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers grab a guard in free agency, agree to deal with Anfernee Simons \u2013 NBC Sports Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sixers have supplemented their guard depth in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Anfernee Simons has agreed to sign with the team on a two-year, $12.3 million contract that has a player option in Year 2, a source confirmed Thursday afternoon to NBC Sports Philadelphia. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2072748164101165333\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania first reported the news.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/2072752831778443447\" rel=\"nofollow\">HoopsHype&#8217;s Michael Scotto<\/a> reported that the Warriors, Heat, Nuggets, Mavericks and Pacers also had interest in Simons.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers will be the fourth NBA team for the 27-year-old Simons. He\u2019s averaged 14.9 points, 3.2 assists and 2.5 rebounds for his career. <\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3 Simons is a combo guard who <a href=\"https:\/\/cleaningtheglass.com\/stats\/player\/4448#tab-shooting_frequency\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fires up three-pointers at a high rate<\/a> and has hit 38.1 percent of his long-range attempts in the NBA.\u00a0Low three-point volume was an issue for the Sixers last season \u2014\u00a0the team ranked 23rd in three-point frequency, <a href=\"https:\/\/cleaningtheglass.com\/stats\/league\/shots#tab-offense_shooting_frequency\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per Cleaning the Glass <\/a>\u2014 and Simons should help to address it with his comfort on both pull-up and catch-and-shoot triples. <\/p>\n<p>Simons was shipped from the Celtics to the Bulls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/bulls\/news\/chicago-bulls-acquire-anfernee-simons-and-second-round-pick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last trade deadline.<\/a> He only played six games for Chicago because he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/48026871\/bulls-anfernee-simons-recovering-left-wrist-fracture\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aggravated a left wrist fracture in February<\/a> and missed the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers now have Simons and rookie Labaron Philon Jr. at guard behind presumptive starters Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe. Quentin Grimes has reportedly agreed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\/quentin-grimes-lakers-sixers-nba-free-agency-2026\/739816\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four-year deal with the Lakers.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once all their moves are official, the Sixers&#8217; roster will be at 14 players. The regular-season maximum is 15 and three two-way contracts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sixers have supplemented their guard depth in free agency. Anfernee Simons has agreed to sign with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[100841,69,1002,71,70,10793,10794],"class_list":["post-234069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sixers-analysis","tag-sixers-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}