Following the Philadelphia 76ers' trade to acquire unhappy star Jimmy Butler from the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday morning, the Sixers have improved but simultaneously unbalanced their roster.

While they added Butler, a four time all star, to their own collection of top-end talent in 2018-18 DPOY runner-up Joel Embiid and the reigning NBA ROY Ben Simmons, the addition of Butler added to the Sixers biggest weakness: perimeter shooting. Trading for Butler cost the Sixers an arm and an a leg, or specifically G/F Robert Covington and power forward Dario Saric, the two best shooters in the Sixers starting lineup.

Butler, an excellent defensive player and a great offensive player in isolation, has never been as good when serving in a complimentary role in an offense. Butler's best offensive years in Chicago came when at times when Derrick Rose was injured or following Rose's 2016 trade to the New York Knicks. Butler, a career 34.1 percent three-shooter, has had a usage rate of at least 21 percent the last five seasons.

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Last season, despite playing next to an All-NBA center in Karl-Anthony Towns, Butler had a usage rate of 24.9 percent, the second highest of his career. Playing next to Butler turned Andrew Wiggins, another isolation player, into a below average player according to PER.

It is fair to wonder, what effect will Butler have on Simmons and Embiid, both of whom had monstrous usage rates of 22.3 and 33.4 respectively. Only one player can handle the ball at a time. Simmons does not have the shooting capabilities to be an off-ball threat and turning Embiid into a spot up shooter is an enormous waste of the The Process's enormous offensive arsenal.

The Sixers starting lineup, depending on who Head Coach Brett Brown tabs to fill the open spot, has either no or one above average shooter. If Brown chooses to go with Wilson Chandler or Mike Muscala, career .341 and .376 three point shooters respectively, the Sixers will have little to no space for Butler, Simmons and Embiid to work. Markelle Fultz, the 2017 #1 overall pick who has been starting for the first part of the season, is not a three-point shooting threat at this point in his career. Another option would be inserting JJ Redick, one of the best shooters in NBA history into the starting lineup and sliding Ben Simmons into the power forward position. Doing that would take another shooter and playmaker off of the Philadelphia bench.

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With all these considerations in mind, the Sixers could benefit greatly from a trade to either bring in a shooter or a playmaker. After looking at who might be available on the trade market, one clear match emerges. The Philadelphia 76ers should try and trade for Garrett Temple of the Memphis Grizzlies.

Temple, a nine year NBA veteran, has likely reached the peak of his NBA career at age 32. A career .359 percent shooter from three, Temple has shot over 39 percent over the last two seasons and would provide the spacing that the Sixers so desperately need. Temple is also a capable ball-handler after operating in a lead ball handler off the bench for a couple years with the Wizards.

If they acquire Temple, the Sixers could opt to either add Temple to their starting lineup with JJ Redick, pushing Markelle Fultz back to being the lead ball-handler off the Philadelphia bench, or they could insert Chandler into the starting lineup and have Temple compliment Redick and TJ McConnell on the bench. Temple, at 6-6, has the size to play either the two-guard or the small forward position.

Jimmy Butler, Timberwolves
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While Temple is still a useful player, the non-competitive Memphis Grizzlies have no real need for a useful role player. With Bayless and his $8.6 million salary being sent as filler to Minnesota to facilitate the Butler deal, the deal gets a bit tricky. It becomes tough to trade for Temple without giving up Mike Muscala, a player the Grizzlies likely would not have interest in. A third team with a need for a stretch power forward like Muscala would need to be involved.

The Sixers could send Muscala to the Houston Rockets and guard Furkan Korkmaz, who has had little impact at the NBA level in his career, to Memphis in order to acquire Temple. The Rockets, in order to facilitate the trade, would send Nene and Marquese Chriss to the Grizzlies while sending their 2021 second round pick to Philadelphia. With this deal, the Sixers would acquire Temple and a potentially useful second round pick while really only giving up Muscala, whose talents can be pretty easily replaced on the buy-out market come February, when shooting bigs like Ryan Anderson or Omri Casspi could become available.

To sum it up, the Sixers should get on the phone soon to contact the Grizzlies about Garrett Temple.