Jared McCain on getting traded by 76ers: I started crying when I found out, I still miss Philadelphia to this day
On Feb. 3, however, he found out he was being traded to the Thunder. “I was on the bus with the Sixers and we were heading to the airport in San Francisco.
We just played Golden State,” McCain said. “I texted my agent for a gym in L. A.
and he called me, and I think he’s calling me about the gym. He is like, ‘They’re about to trade you. ’ Then [then-Sixers president Daryl Morey] called me five minutes later and told me I was traded.
It was pretty wild, and I started crying immediately. “Those are my brothers and still are my brothers to this day. It was definitely tough.
They thought I was joking when I told them, and then I started crying. Then they were like, ‘Oh, this is serious. ’ Then we got off the bus and they all came up to me and I still went on the plane with them to L.