News From the Front: Rodney Carney Gets Back to Where He Once Belonged

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I always liked Rodney Carney. As you may recall, the Memphis swingman spent a couple of seasons with the Sixers rather recetnly, traded from the Bulls on draft night in 2006 for our pick of Thabo Sefolosha, and getting dumped to the Timberwolves in 2009 to make cap space for the Elton Brand signing. I thought Carney got a raw deal then--he was just starting to come into his own as one of the Sixers' key bench guys. Well, the Sixers apparently were at least man enough to admit their mistake, and brought Carney back yesterday, for the fourth-year-player minimum of $855,189, on a one-year deal.

 
Carney should give the Sixers another set of young legs to run on the break with Thad, Iguodala and Sweet Lou, an explosive slasher with a pretty good ability to finish as well. He can also be something of an outside threat, at least by Sixers standards--he shot 35% from deep last year, better than any of our guys, and in the grand tradition of ex-Philly athletes burning us when we play them on other teams, he poured in an impressive seven threes for the Wolves in a game against the Sixers last March. At the very least, his similar skill set should allow him to do a decent job of spelling 'Dre, who led the league in minutes played last year.

It's not the most earth-shattering signing, certainly, but it makes me feel a little bit better about our fairly thin bench, especially with Lou likely bumped to the starting lineup. And for just the minimum contract, it's pretty hard to argue with.

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