Kwame Brown was supposed to be the 76ers’ starting center but he could be on his way out. (Kent Smith/Getty Images)

With the offseason acquisition of Andrew Bynum, the Philadelphia 76ers are believed to be shopping Kwame Brown or Spencer Hawes, according to Sam Amico of Fox Sports:

That leads some around the league to believe either Brown, Hawes or Allen will be made available come the February trading deadline, if not the end of training camp in October. At the very least, some teams with holes in the middle plan to start placing calls.

Head coach Doug Collins said Brown would be the starting center, but landing Bynum obviously bumps him to the bench. The Sixers signed Brown, a free agent with the Golden State Warriors, in July after using the team amnesty clause on Elton Brand.

Philadelphia also boosted its frontcourt by re-signing Hawes that same week. The team also has LaVoy Allen, so it’s likely that at least one of the three centers coming off the bench will be with a different franchise at some point next season.

The 76ers are Kwame Brown’s seventh stop in his career after signing the forward to a two-year, $6 million deal. (Andrew D. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Kwame Brown, known to most as the No. 1 overall pick taken by Michael Jordan’s Washington Wizards in 2001, has signed with the Philadelphia 76ers, according to SI.com’s Sam Amick.

The deal is for $6 million over two years, with a player option for the second year.

The 76ers will be Brown’s seventh NBA team in his decade-long career. After a handful of futile years in the middle of his career, Brown averaged 7.9 points and 6.8 rebounds per game for the Charlotte Bobcats in the 2010-11 season.

The 76ers used their amnesty clause on Elton Brand, cutting the former All-Star and leaving them thin in the paint.

Golden State Warriors’ backup center Kwame Brown will likely miss the remainder of the season after undergoing surgery on a chest muscle Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. Brown was injured in a game last week with the Miami Heat.

Brown will remain in southern California for rehab, the report states, and his recovery time is set at three months.

The former number one overall pick in 2001 is averaging 6.3 points and 6.3 rebounds a game in his first season with the Warriors.

Andrew Bynum has had an absolutely dominant start for the Lakers this season, averaging 19.6 points, 15.8 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game in his first five contests since returning from suspension. And the one guy taking credit for his emergence hasn’t been the guy you’d expect.

It’s not his coach, Mike Brown, and it’s not his captain, Kobe Bryant. No — it’s Kwame Brown, the guy who’s backing up Andris Biedrins in Golden State.

“That was my young fella,” Brown bragged to Mike Bresnahan of the L.A. Times. “I taught him everything he knows. I’m one of the better defenders in the league, and we played against each other every day in practice. I told him if you can score against me, you can score on anyone.”

Bynum was a Laker lottery pick in 2005; Brown was a four-year veteran at that point, already well on his way to one of the great draft-bust stories in NBA history. The former No. 1 pick played with Bynum for two and a half seasons before being shipped to Memphis in the infamous Pau Gasol trade.

“Kwame and I are friends,” Bynum said. “We used to talk about cars. We went bowling too.”