However the Sixers are nicely conscious of Andre Drummond’s immense price. His selflessness ensures that he’ll by no means be forgotten as some of the unheralded gamers on the staff. How does somebody along with his resumé settle for such a task? “I’m at some extent now the place I’ve executed every part individually, accolade-wise,” stated Drummond, who’s in his thirteenth NBA season. “Numerous issues that guys on this league haven’t executed, I’ve executed it already, individually. My objective now’s to win. And no matter capability that is available in, you realize, I’m all the way down to do for the staff. “Do I need to play extra? In fact, who doesn’t need to play extra? However that’s not greatest for the staff proper now.”
Supply: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Supply: The Philadelphia Inquirer
What’s the excitement on Twitter?
Adam Aaronson @SixersAdam
Adem Bona is getting a cameo right here. Andre Drummond has 4 fouls and is absolutely struggling. Sixers searching for power from Bona. – 9:43 PM
Adem Bona is getting a cameo right here. Andre Drummond has 4 fouls and is absolutely struggling. Sixers searching for power from Bona. – 9:43 PM
Adam Aaronson @SixersAdam
After a 9-0 Cavs run in three minutes opened the third quarter, Nick Nurse known as timeout and made sweeping adjustments. He introduced in Council/C. Martin/Yabusele for Oubre/KJ Martin/Drummond.
The Sixers’ ensuing unit — Maxey/Council/George/C. Martin/Yabusele — went +12 in 3:36. – 9:39 PM
After a 9-0 Cavs run in three minutes opened the third quarter, Nick Nurse known as timeout and made sweeping adjustments. He introduced in Council/C. Martin/Yabusele for Oubre/KJ Martin/Drummond.
The Sixers’ ensuing unit — Maxey/Council/George/C. Martin/Yabusele — went +12 in 3:36. – 9:39 PM
Adam Aaronson @SixersAdam
After a 9-0 Cavs run to open the third quarter in three minutes, Nick Nurse known as timeout and made sweeping adjustments. Introduced in Council/C. Martin/Yabusele for Oubre/KJ Martin/Drummond.
The Sixers’ ensuing lineup — Maxey, Council, George, C. Martin, Yabusele — is +9 in 3:36. – 9:35 PM
After a 9-0 Cavs run to open the third quarter in three minutes, Nick Nurse known as timeout and made sweeping adjustments. Introduced in Council/C. Martin/Yabusele for Oubre/KJ Martin/Drummond.
The Sixers’ ensuing lineup — Maxey, Council, George, C. Martin, Yabusele — is +9 in 3:36. – 9:35 PM
Adam Aaronson @SixersAdam
Tyrese Maxey just isn’t on the ground to open the third quarter. Sixers are going with none guards. George, Oubre Jr., C. Martin, KJ Martin, Drummond are the 5. – 9:19 PM
Tyrese Maxey just isn’t on the ground to open the third quarter. Sixers are going with none guards. George, Oubre Jr., C. Martin, KJ Martin, Drummond are the 5. – 9:19 PM
Danny Cunningham @RealDCunningham
Whew. Donovan Mitchell simply made Andre Drummond contact the earth after which buried the 3-pointer. He’s as much as 19 factors with 7:35 left within the first half. – 8:43 PM
Whew. Donovan Mitchell simply made Andre Drummond contact the earth after which buried the 3-pointer. He’s as much as 19 factors with 7:35 left within the first half. – 8:43 PM
Extra on this storyline
He did, nevertheless, end that season because the Brooklyn Nets beginning heart after being traded there on Feb. 10, 2022. After that season, he signed a contract to be Nikola Vučević’s backup with the Chicago Bulls. It was a task at which Drummond excelled the previous two seasons. “Do I need to begin? Do I believe I’m a starter? Certain, who wouldn’t?” he stated. “It’s what it’s. I’m not about the way you begin. It’s about if you’re successful a sport, the way you impression the staff. I don’t even take a look at stats anymore. I take a look at my plus-minus and see if I affected the sport in any method. “If I had a nasty plus-minus and I had eight factors and 10 rebounds, that’s not evening. I’d moderately have … plus-3 and nil factors. Meaning I impacted the sport, someway and by some means helped us win. I’m content material with the small victories.” -via The Philadelphia Inquirer / December 23, 2024
Till his first Sixers stint through the 2021-22 season, Drummond solely imagined himself as a starter. That was comprehensible, contemplating he was one throughout his tenures with the Pistons, Cavs, and Los Angeles Lakers. “The primary time was once I got here right here,” Drummond stated. “That was the primary time I got here off the bench for anyone.” How was it? “That … was terrible,” he stated. “It was a humbling expertise. I inform all people this. It’s a humbling expertise coming from enjoying 38 to 40 minutes to coming off the bench and enjoying behind among the finest facilities to play the sport. “So it was very humbling, but additionally it gave me a distinct outlook of the sport that there’s different methods I can impression the sport apart from enjoying 40-plus minutes.” -via The Philadelphia Inquirer / December 23, 2024
Golden State, as one current instance, provided a number of first-round draft picks for Caruso ultimately February’s commerce deadline and was even prepared to half with Moses Moody, together with different gamers, sources stated, in a commerce development that might have additionally landed Torrey Craig and Andre Drummond with Golden State. That’s the identical Moody, after all, who got here to phrases with the Warriors on a Caruso-esque contract extension in October: $39 million over three years. -via marcstein.substack.com / December 21, 2024
