{"id":736094,"date":"2026-07-01T03:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/736094\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T03:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:13:15","slug":"sources-sixers-to-land-dean-wade-on-four-year-39m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/736094\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Sixers to land Dean Wade on four-year, $39M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Free agent forward <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3912848\/dean-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dean Wade<\/a> has agreed to a four-year, $39 million deal with the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-76ers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Sixers beat out several other contenders who had pursued the former Cavaliers forward, who has long proven indispensable for Cleveland over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Wade, 29, is a valuable frontcourt piece as a capable defender at the four spot who can also stretch the floor with his 3-point shot. He appeared in 342 games for Cleveland over his seven years with the Cavaliers, including 32 playoff games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Despite splitting time between the starting lineup and the bench, Wade had a positive on-off differential in each of the last four years &#8212; meaning the Cavs were better when he was on the court vs. off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">For the Sixers, Wade should fill in what&#8217;s been a hole at power forward since <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6440\/tobias-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tobias Harris<\/a> departed two seasons ago &#8212; slotting in alongside superstar center <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3059318\/joel-embiid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joel Embiid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent forward Dean Wade has agreed to a four-year, $39 million deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, sources&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[316630,352,355,3,2113,99,181330],"class_list":["post-736094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-316630","tag-espn","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-sports","tag-wade-dean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}