Trade Deadline Day is here

We'll eschew the traditional Morning Sixers newsletter format for a little bit more of a free-flowing rumor roundup, so that way I can interject some thoughts of my own in there.

Yesterday was a bit of a whirlwind, with contradictory reports flying in from all angles. The two disparate views could roughly be summed up by two reporters from the same network: ESPN.

"The sides are absolutely talking, absolutely negotiating," Brian Windhorst told Mike Greenberg yesterday morning. "They have swapped offers, and really right now it's about haggling ancillary parts."