2007–08 Philadelphia 76ers season

2007–08 Philadelphia 76ers season
Head coach	Maurice Cheeks
Arena	Wachovia Center
Results
Record	40–42 (.488)
Place	Division: 3rd (Atlantic) Conference: 7th (Eastern)
Playoff finish	First Round (eliminated 2–4)
Stats @ Basketball-Reference.com
Local media
Television	CSN Philadelphia, WPSG
Radio	WIP, WPHT

The 2007–08 Philadelphia 76ers season was the 69th season of the franchise, 59th in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Sixers finished the regular season at 40-42. In the first round of the playoffs, they lost to the Detroit Pistons in six games.

Key dates

• June 28: The 2007 NBA Draft took place in New York City, New York.
• July 1: The free agency period started.
• October 12: The Sixers pre-season started with a game against the Brooklyn Nets.
• November 2: The Sixers season started with a game against the Chicago Bulls.
• December 4: General Manager Billy King was fired and replaced by former Brooklyn Nets GM Ed Stefanski.
• April 4: The Sixers clinched a playoff berth to the 2008 NBA Playoffs.
• May 1: The Sixers were eliminated from the 2008 NBA Playoffs with their game 6 loss to Detroit finishing the series 4-2.

Summary

NBA Draft 2007

On May 22, the Sixers were assigned the 12th overall selection in the NBA Draft Lottery. On June 28, The Sixers then used that pick to select forward Thaddeus Young from Georgia Tech. The Sixers also held picks 21 and 30 of the first round that they received last season in a trade with the Denver Nuggets for Allen Iverson. They used these picks to select guard Daequan Cook from Ohio State and Petteri Koponen from Finland. In the second round the Sixers selected center Kyrylo Fesenko with the 30th overall pick. During the draft, Daequan Cook was traded to the Miami Heat for also recently drafted forward Jason Smith. Petteri Koponen was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers for swingman Derrick Byars. Finally, Kyrylo Fesenko was traded to the Utah Jazz for forward/center Herbert Hill.

Draft picks

Philadelphia's selections from the 2007 NBA Draft in New York, New York.

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	School/Club Team
1	12	Thaddeus Young	Small forward	United States	Georgia Tech
1	21	Daequan Cook (traded to Los Angeles)	Power Forward	United States	Ohio State
1	30	Petteri Koponen (traded to Portland)	Point guard	Finland	Tapiolan Honka (Finland)
2	38	Kyrylo Fesenko (traded to Utah)	Center	Ukraine	SK Cherkassy (Ukraine)

Roster

Philadelphia 76ers roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt. From PF 20 Amundson, Louis 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 225 lb (102 kg) UNLV PF 52 Booth, Calvin 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) 250 lb (113 kg) Penn State SF 25 Carney, Rodney 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 205 lb (93 kg) Memphis C 1 Dalembert, Samuel 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) 250 lb (113 kg) Seton Hall PF 30 Evans, Reggie 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 245 lb (111 kg) Iowa SG 33 Green, Willie 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 201 lb (91 kg) Detroit SG 35 Hill, Herbert  6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 240 lb (109 kg) Providence SF 9 Iguodala, Andre 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 207 lb (94 kg) Arizona PG 7 Miller, Andre 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 200 lb (91 kg) Utah PG 12 Ollie, Kevin 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 195 lb (88 kg) Connecticut PF 42 Randolph, Shavlik 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 240 lb (109 kg) Duke C 14 Smith, Jason 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) 240 lb (109 kg) Colorado State PG 23 Williams, Lou 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 175 lb (79 kg) South Gwinnett HS (GA) SF 21 Young, Thaddeus 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 220 lb (100 kg) Georgia Tech	Head coach Maurice Cheeks (Texas–El Paso) Assistant coach(es) John Loyer (Akron) Henry Bibby (UCLA) Jim Lynam (Saint Joseph's) Moses Malone (Petersburg HS (VA)) Legend (C) Team captain (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (S) Suspended Injured Roster • Transactions Last transaction: 2007-12-29

Depth chart

Pos.	Starter	Bench	Reserve	Inactive
C	Samuel Dalembert	Jason Smith	Calvin Booth	Herbert Hill
PF	Thaddeus Young	Reggie Evans	Louis Amundson	Shavlik Randolph
SF	Andre Iguodala	Rodney Carney
SG	Willie Green	Kevin Ollie
PG	Andre Miller	Louis Williams

Regular season

Standings

Atlantic Division	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	Div
y-Boston Celtics	66	16	.805	–	35–6	31–10	14–2
x-Toronto Raptors	41	41	.500	25	25–16	16–25	10–6
x-Philadelphia 76ers	40	42	.488	26	22–19	18–23	7–9
New Jersey Nets	34	48	.415	32	21–20	13–28	4–12
New York Knicks	23	59	.280	43	15–26	8–33	5–11

Playoffs

2008 playoff game log
First Round: 2–4 (Home: 1–2; Road: 1–2) Game Date Time Team Score High points High rebounds High assists Location Attendance Series 1 April 20 @ Detroit 90–86 Miller (20) Evans (14) Iguodala (8) The Palace of Auburn Hills 22,076 1–0 2 April 23 @ Detroit 88–105 Williams (17) Evans (11) Iguodala (4) The Palace of Auburn Hills 22,076 1–1 3 April 25 Detroit 95–75 Dalembert (23) Dalembert (16) Green, Iguodala (6) Wachovia Center 18,805 2–1 4 April 27 Detroit 84–93 Young (15) Dalembert (12) Iguodala (5) Wachovia Center 18,347 2–2 5 April 29 @ Detroit 81–98 Iguodala (21) Evans (7) Iguodala (6) The Palace of Auburn Hills 22,076 2–3 6 May 1 Detroit 77–100 Iguodala (16) Evans (7) Evans, Ollie (3) Wachovia Center 14,130 2–4
2008 playoff schedule

Player statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game

Regular season

Player	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
Louis Amundson	16	0	4.0	.500	.000	.286	.8	.0	.06	.06	1.1
Calvin Booth	31	0	6.6	.333	.000	.600	1.2	.3	.19	.58	.8
Rodney Carney	70	6	14.8	.403	.317	.679	2.1	.5	.56	.33	5.8
Samuel Dalembert	82	82	33.2	.513	.000	.707	10.4	.5	.49	2.34	10.5
Reggie Evans	81	61	23.2	.439	1.000	.467	7.5	.8	1.06	.10	5.2
Willie Green	74	74	26.6	.436	.285	.757	2.5	2.0	.73	.30	12.4
Andre Iguodala	82	82	39.5	.456	.329	.721	5.4	4.8	2.09	.60	19.9
Andre Miller	82	82	36.8	.492	.088	.772	4.0	6.9	1.28	.07	17.0
Kevin Ollie	40	0	7.5	.420	.000	.800	.5	1.0	.25	.00	1.8
Shavlik Randolph	9	0	3.0	.286	.000	.000	1.2	.3	.11	.33	.9
Jason Smith	76	1	14.6	.455	.286	.659	3.0	.3	.29	.66	4.5
Louis Williams	80	0	23.3	.424	.359	.783	2.1	3.2	1.01	.16	11.5
Thaddeus Young	74	22	21.0	.539	.316	.738	4.2	.8	.99	.11	8.2

Playoffs

Player	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
Louis Amundson	2	0	5.0	.500	.000	.500	3.5	.0	.00	.00	2.5
Rodney Carney	6	0	14.0	.387	.500	.500	1.2	.8	1.17	.33	5.0
Samuel Dalembert	6	6	32.2	.422	.000	.842	9.5	.5	.33	1.67	9.0
Reggie Evans	6	0	24.7	.500	.000	.625	7.8	.5	.83	.00	6.8
Willie Green	6	6	23.7	.431	.200	.643	1.3	2.0	.83	.67	9.0
Andre Iguodala	6	6	39.0	.333	.143	.721	4.8	5.0	2.17	.17	13.2
Andre Miller	6	6	38.2	.438	.000	.636	3.2	3.3	.83	.00	15.3
Kevin Ollie	3	0	6.3	.250	.000	1.000	.3	1.0	.67	.00	1.3
Shavlik Randolph	2	0	2.0	.000	.000	.750	.0	.0	.00	.00	1.5
Jason Smith	6	0	13.7	.444	.000	1.000	2.5	.5	.17	.83	3.3
Louis Williams	6	0	22.5	.400	.222	.733	2.0	2.0	1.00	.00	12.0
Thaddeus Young	6	6	26.7	.480	.200	.857	4.5	.7	1.17	.00	10.2

Awards and records

Awards

• Andre Miller was named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played from February 4 through February 10.^[1]
• Thaddeus Young, NBA All-Rookie Team 2nd Team

Records

• The Sixers broke the team record of fewest points allowed in a game by only giving up 63 points to the Charlotte Bobcats on November 7, 2007.
• Willie Green had a career-high 37 points against the Toronto Raptors on April 4, 2007.

Transactions

The 76ers have been involved in the following transactions during the 2007-08 season.

Trades

June 28, 2007[2]	To Los Angeles Clippers Rights to Daequan Cook (2007 21st overall draft pick), second round draft pick (2009) and cash considerations	To New York Knicks Rights to Jason Smith (2007 20th overall draft pick)
June 28, 2007[2]	To Dallas Mavericks Rights to Derrick Byars (2007 42nd overall draft pick) and cash considerations.	To Portland Trail Blazers Rights to Petteri Koponen (2007 30th overall draft pick)
June 28, 2007[2]	To Utah Jazz Rights to Kyrylo Fesenko (2007 38th overall draft pick)	To Orlando Magic Rights to Herbert Hill (2007 55th overall draft pick)
September 10, 2007[3]	To Denver Nuggets Steven Hunter and Bobby Jones	To Philadelphia 76ers Reggie Evans and draft rights to Ricky Sanchez
December 29, 2007[4]	To Utah Jazz Gordan Giriček and future first round pick	To Atlanta Hawks Kyle Korver

Free Agents

Additions

Player	Date signed	Former team
Calvin Booth	September 10	Minnesota Timberwolves

Subtractions

Player	Date left	New team
Derrick Byars	October 22	Dallas Mavericks
Gordan Giriček	February 29	Utah Jazz

See also

• 2007-08 NBA season

References

1. , NBA.com, November 12, 2007.
2. ESPN - NBA Basketball Transactions - National Basketball Association
3. ESPN - NBA Basketball Transactions - National Basketball Association
4. ESPN - NBA Basketball Transactions - National Basketball Association

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