Jared McCain Dances as PlaqueBoyMax Disses Philly in Music Video After 76ers Trade

After his surprise move to the Oklahoma City Thunder at the NBA trade deadline, Jared McCain was involved in a music moment that dissed his now-former home city in Philadelphia.

During a Twitch livestream on Friday, McCain danced along to a new track from PlaqueBoyMax that contains the lyric, "We better not run into Philly/cause if we do s--t gon get sticky."

Later in the stream, though, PlaqueBoyMax does give McCain the opportunity to change anything he doesn't like (starts at 3:27:00 mark). The second-year guard responds by suggesting they don't specifically name Philly because "I still love them."

McCain was surprisingly dealt by the Philadelphia 76ers to Oklahoma City in exchange for a package of four draft picks, including a 2026 first-rounder, on Feb. 4.

The move seemingly came out of nowhere after the 21-year-old had a promising but brief rookie season for the Sixers due to a knee injury. He averaged 15.3 points on 38.3 percent three-point shooting in 23 appearances during the 2024-25 campaign.

McCain certainly seemed caught off-guard by the trade, saying in a video on his YouTube page posted afterward that he had been crying and was "in shock" from the whole thing (starts at 1:45 mark).

This season was a step back for McCain, who fell out of the rotation for head coach Nick Nurse. He averaged just 6.6 points per game in 37 appearances for the 76ers prior to the trade.

It was an unceremonious end for McCain, the No. 16 overall pick in the 2024 draft, but he now gets the opportunity to play for a Thunder team built to win another NBA title this season and with an excellent track record of player development to potentially maximize his talents going forward.

McCain's comments to PlaqueBoyMax at least suggest he holds no hard feelings toward the city of Philadelphia for how things played out during his brief tenure with the NBA club.