Sixers selling Evan Turner stuff as the trade deadline approaches

What great timing by the 76ers. You have to think that they did this on purpose just to play with us. The organization is not deaf to the constant supply of trade Turner rumors, and maybe this is their way to joke at it. Or, it really is foreshadowing of the future. Either way, the timing is nothing short of interesting.

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Talk about timing, or trolling. 

The Sixers’ 25% off all Evan Turner apparel and novelties sale may not mean anything more than that the team is trying to give fans a cheaper supply of Turner stuff, but the timing is tremendous. 

Photo taken by Michael Kaskey-Blomain

With the NBA trade deadline officially less than a month away, and speculation about what the Sixers are going to do at the deadline at an all-time high, the team decides to promote a sale of all things Evan Turner, who has been linked to trade rumors recently. 

Obviously such a marketing move, announced on the jumbotron during Friday night’s game against Oklahoma City, jumped out to fans of the franchise, who immediately took it as a sign of the end of Turner’s tenure with the Sixers. 

“He’s gone,” a woman sitting in the seat next to me exclaimed.

“Finally,” added her friend. 

While the idea is understandable, especially considering the timing, realistically, the sale is probably just that; a sale. It seems unlikely that a franchise would foreshadow its future by orchestrating a sale of a soon-to-be-traded player.  

But with the Sixers, one can never be so sure.

They could have taken 25% off all things Michael Carter-Williams this month instead of E.T. and there would be no swirling speculation about the motivation behind the sale.  But, Turner is the target, and the sale is either a sign, or some top-tier trolling of the fan base by the franchise.