Nick Young talks joining Sixers, Bynum

The Philadelphia 76ers made a few moves this off season to continue to grow their franchise as in each of the last two postseasons' they have advanced by first making the playoffs and then last season by moving into the second round before losing a game 7 to the veteran Boston Celtics.  If the pattern continues, the next step will be at least a trip to the Eastern Conference Finals this season.  Yesterday one of their newest additions, guard Nick Young, spoke to the media about the process of joining the Sixers.

"I was shocked myself," said Young, "I didn't see them as one of the places I was going to end up coming. But that's the tricky thing about free agency. Doug called me early, like 6 a.m. LA time, and we were just talking, and it was a great talk. From there, I was really just leaning to coming here. He had a good spirit to him. He sat down and talked to my dad and my mom. Once my mom started raving about him, it was pretty much a wrap right there....I'm just going to do my best out there," Young said. "I really don't know my role. Of course, I'm going to be somebody who is going to score the ball, somebody that takes some of the pressure off of Bynum, when he gets double-teamed he can kick it out and I can knock down that shot."

"That was unbelievable, really," Young said. "It's big to get a player like that, Andrew Bynum. It makes us work harder because we know that we're going to have a target. People talked about that I made a mistake leaving LA, but it's like I brought LA with me. Look at all the LA guys on the team, and we brought one of the big men from LA."