During the ESPN-NBA TV broadcast of the Sixers-Warriors game last night, Brett Brown was asked, just a moment after citing Dario Saric as part of the Sixers’ future plans, if his star European would be making his way over this year. Transcript from reader (@lost_inthesauce)*:

“It’s still too early to be 100% certain, but it is that close and we feel quite confident in the next few days we’ll be able to make an announcement.”

Boom.

At this point, as Jim and Max Rappaport discussed on their new Sixers podcast, The Stepover, there’s no reaosn to think he won’t come. Saric has been nothing but forthcoming all along. It’s everyone else fueling speculation that he won’t. I’d expect the announcement that he is soon.

Side note: Chances that Embiid was playing Pokemon?

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*I was watching it, but I was so tits deep in Prime Day deals that I was incapable of doing anything else. Glow in the dark toilet light? CHECK. MLB The Show? Yep. Scale? You know it!