By Sean Kennedy (@PhillyFastBreak)
We already suspected that James Anderson, starter of 62 games with the Sixers last season, was not likely to be with the team during the upcoming season. The former Oklahoma State star was released earlier this summer before his contract became guaranteed, and with younger, cheaper replacements taken in the second round in K.J. McDaniels and Jordan McRae, Anderson’s time certainly seemed to be up. Well, I guess if you can’t make it with the current version of the Sixers (who I’m pretty sure had a contest for a fan to start a game last season), there’s probably not a place for you in the NBA. That theory held out as Anderson signed a one-year contract yesterday to play this upcoming season for Zalgiris Kaunas in Lithuania.
Anderson brought a level of borderline competence to a team a season ago that was in short supply for a team built to lose and regularly shuttling players in and out on 10-day contracts. Still, the wing player shot just 32.8% from three on the season, and for a guy who doesn’t bring a whole lot else to the table, that level of success is not going to cut it in the NBA. If he wasn’t playing against his former team, Houston, against whom he scored 36 and 30 points in two games last season, he was generally lost in the shuffle out on the court. The Sixers gave Anderson his shot and it just didn’t work out for him; that’s more than many guys even get in this business.
Thanks for the hard work James, we’ll always remember your game-tying shot over now-Laker Jeremy Lin fondly.
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