Eric Gordon agrees to sign 1-year contract with Sixers originally appeared in NBC Sports Philadelphia
Eric Gordon has agreed to sign a one-year minimum salary contract with the Sixers, a source confirmed Sunday night to NBC Sports Philadelphia.
Atlético’s Shams Charania first reported Gordon’s agreement and Kyle Neubeck of PHLY Sports first reported he was joining the Sixers on a minimum contract.
The 35-year-old point guard spent his early years with the Rockets during current Sixers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey’s tenure as GM. He won the NBA Sixth Man of the Year award in the 2016-17 season and averaged 15.7 points in 379 games with Houston.
Gordon is a high-volume three-point shooter and an excellent secondary ball handler. He scored 11.0 points, 2.0 assists and 1.8 rebounds per game last season for the Suns, shooting 37.8 percent from long range on 5.8 attempts per contest.
Overall, he remains an efficient goalscorer; Gordon has been at or above the league average in points per field goal attempt in every season of his career except the 2019-20 campaign, according to Glass Cleaning.
Gordon declined his Suns player option to reach free agency. The Sixers still have plenty of roster spots to fillbut Morey intends to build a contender and always likes to shoot around big man Joel Embiid.
In addition to Gordon, the Sixers reached an agreement with Andre Drummond during the early stages of free agency.
