According to the New York Post, The clock continues ticking for the Nets and the Sixers in their respective scenarios with free agent center Todd MacCulloch.

By 11:59.59 p.m. Friday - or midnight Saturday to most people's way of thinking - the Nets will know whether or not Philadelphia is matching their six-year, $34 million-and-change offer sheet to the 7-footer. The Sixers want to keep MacCulloch but also are trying to stay under the $54 million luxury tax level. By matching MacCulloch, they would go over. Teams must pay an amount equal to the amount they exceed the tax level.

Philadelphia, sources maintain, is trying to devise a sign-and-trade, but because they can only take back MacCulloch's base year salary of $2.25 million, a deal seems unlikely. And, because of the offer sheet, they couldn't trade MacCulloch to the Nets for one year. They have desperately tried to move Matt Geiger but his contract, calling for $18 million-plus over two years plus a 15 percent trade bonus, makes him slightly less desirable than a vial of the Ebola virus.