The Athletic gives Sixers a middle of the road ranking for offseason

The 2025 offseason for the Philadelphia 76ers was more so about getting younger and adding more depth.

The Sixers spent a lot of money in 2024 with the addition of Paul George and a slew of others so that limited their offseason moves in 2025.President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey and his staff have focused on making sure the team got younger and more versatile.

The Sixers accomplished both with the additions of VJ Edgecombe, Trendon Watford, Johni Broome, Jabari Walker, and Dominick Barlow.

All four are young and versatile enough to do a number of different things on the floor.The Athletic ranked every team's offseason and the Sixers come in ranked No.

16 among the 30 teams:You can definitely see a post-Embiid skeleton coming into shape in Philly, with McCain, Maxey and Edgecombe becoming a potentially wildly fun trio in the coming years.

For now, Philly still holds out hope that the 31-year-Embiid can finally recover after getting shut down the last seven weeks of the regular season to have his meniscus repaired.

But thats a hope that has fallen on deaf ears in the Philadelphia fan base, whove increasingly tuned the 76ers out.

Its hard to see Philly going past next season with the big man as its lodestar if he cant show definitively that he can again handle the load of 60-plus games and get to the playoffs healthy.To David Aldridge's point, the Sixers have begun to change things up a bit.

They are beginning to move forward with a new style and having different players on the roster so it will be interesting to see what the Sixers will do moving forward concerning the Joel Embiid era.This article originally appeared on Sixers Wire: The Athletic gives Sixers a middle of the road ranking for offseason.

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