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Not quite as ugly as Ionescu's sprain but ugh.

the real way the sixers fucked up was trading valuable role players for half a season of jimmy butler

TNT has gone into commercials playing master p and travis porter tonight

i can't remember but did jimmy ever want to re-sign with them?

my understanding is they only wanted to give him 4 years and so that was kind of the end of it

my assumption is if they offer him the contract he wants he takes it... he actually liked the sixers from what i can gather. he still hangs out w simmons off the court

he never really clicked there basketball wise and showed up on the heats doorstep the first day of free agency but who knows

he may have wanted out to find a place where he could alpha dog in peace... either way the sixers reasoning was the longterm concern of the contract which doesn’t really make sense to me when the embiid-simmons core needs to be maxed out asap

and given the contracts they signed instead with worse vets

yeah i mean if youre gonna trade for him then u gotta sign

mb they thought they cld get him for cheap since he was such a psycho in minny oh well

man paul george is having a rough couple games here

sixers argument would prob be that they got horford on a shorter deal with some non guaranteed money but they’re paying him almost $100 million for his age 33-36 seasons so it’s like... you balked at paying jimmy butler $40 million when he’s 35 but will give al horford

$28 million.... for a fit that doesn’t work. i just don’t think there’s a string of logic connecting the moves they made this offseason

the logic was how about a team of all centers

it’s true... it’s funny how much space hinkie still occupies in conversations about the sixers when the current story is they hired an ex player center who destroyed their team to sign a center

the whole colangelo crew has a lot to answer for

when kawhi wants to take a game over it still feels like nobody can beat him, to me. everyone on podcasts recently has been tripping all over themselves to say that giannis is “still the best player in the league” but like......

man paul george is having a rough couple games here

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when i watch him in games like this i'm like dude what exactly are you good at?

kawhi vs. giannis is an indicator of the fact that the nba has definitively separated the regular season from the playoffs

Re: Butler staying in Philly, when he was on Reddick's podcast, he was pretty clear that he wasn't impressed with Brett Brown. Also, after the season was over, he heard some talk that Sixers were concerned with whether they could "control him" and he got pissed and started looking elsewhere thinking they probably weren't going to sign him. My sense is the Sixers liked Harris better because he was a "team player." Oops.

The Horford thing is inexplicable.

some of it had to be them getting caught up in the idea of stealing him from boston

Yah that jj pod with Jimmy was great

Tobias Harris and Al Horford are without a made 3-point shot so far in this series. Only two players (Richardson and Milton) have made more than one 3-point shot in the series.

philly being rightly punished for not hoisting

hoisted or be hoisted --nba wisdom

The #Sixers have canceled today’s regularly scheduled practice.

— Keith Pompey (@PompeyOnSixers) August 22, 2020

Tobias Harris and Al Horford are without a made 3-point shot so far in this series. Only two players (Richardson and Milton) have made more than one 3-point shot in the series.

I don’t want to be alarmist but there’s gotta be some guys who aren’t 100% because of covid right. Mo bamba had to leave the bubble for vague covid recovery reasons... it’s not the flu

yeah def

Maybe. I know I’m still dealing with stuff over a month later.

its a respiratory disorder that been shown to have lingering effects and breathing is pretty important in basketball

My stuff is mostly neurological plus heart palpitations. Smell isn’t all the way back yet either.

damn man wishing you a fast as possible recovery from this bs

Ugh that sucks. Hope each week is better

sorry to hear spottie.

not gonna bother watching any of these series unless they get to 2-2 or more

Aw spottie that sucks hope it gets back to normal soon

Thanks friends. Sucks for sure.

Bad bubble for Fournier

ugh spottie didn't know you got the vid, hope it improves soon for ya man

russ is already one of the best bench hypemen ever

presti appears to be a very good GM but his decade long quest to draft a single wing player who can play defense and shoot is baffling

haha yes it is v weird

laughing hysterically at chris paul flopping his team out of the playoffs

this display from cp and harden is embarassing, imo both teams should forfeit

i kinda was hoping that harden has actually seriously injured his shoulder bcuz the two of them co kamikazing their team’s seasons trying to outflop each other would have been too beautiful for words

crazy end to this one!

rockets just ran a play with 10 seconds left in which harden was fully a decoy...