Kelly Oubre Jr. is leaving the Philadelphia 76ers for the Indiana Pacers on a two-year, nearly $17 million deal. The move landed on July 1, 2026, and it pushes another rotation wing out of a team that was already managing cap pressure. Philadelphia did not just lose one player in the opening wave of NBA free agency; it lost two.
Oubre spent the last three seasons with the 76ers, where he played 178 regular-season games and made 150 starts. He averaged 14.9 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists, while shooting 32% on 3-pointers. That gives the Pacers a veteran wing with a defined role and gives Philadelphia another minutes gap to fill.
Oubre’s Philadelphia run
The move ends a stretch that made Oubre one of the more stable pieces around Joel Embiid and Paul George. His workload tells the story: 178 games, 150 starts, and enough offensive volume to average nearly 15 points a night across three seasons. A separate free-agency report on Quentin Grimes points in the same direction for the 76ers — the wing group is changing quickly, not gradually.
Philadelphia entered free agency cash-strapped because of Embiid and George's big contracts, so each decision had to fit a tighter roster build. The 76ers lost Oubre and Quentin Grimes in the same free-agency period, even as they added Dean Wade and Ariel Hukporti. That is not a one-for-one exchange in style or usage, but it does show how the front office is trying to balance spending with the need for playable depth.
Grimes, Wade and Hukporti
Grimes agreed to a four-year, $60 million deal with the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday after two seasons with Philadelphia. Last season, he averaged 13.4 points, shot 33% on 3-pointers and started 19 games in 75 appearances. On Tuesday night, the 76ers agreed with Dean Wade on a four-year, $39 million deal, and on Wednesday they signed Ariel Hukporti to a one-year, $3.4 million contract. Wade averaged 5.8 points, 4.2 rebounds and shot 36.2% on 3-pointers in 59 games last season with the Cleveland Cavaliers, while Hukporti averaged 2.2 points in 54 games.
Hukporti, 24, was the final pick of the 2024 NBA draft by the Dallas Mavericks before his rights were traded to the New York Knicks. Philadelphia’s roster work now looks less like a single addition and more like a reshuffle around the same financial squeeze. How much of the 76ers' available roster space was affected by the departures of Oubre and Grimes is not answered, but the pieces that moved this week show a team building on the fly rather than keeping a core intact.
