hinkie just found the magic solution to job security as a gm: sell morons in ownership on the idea of perpetual next year! seriously, I don't have words for what they're doing there. i'll be shocked if they even field a marginal team in the next couple of years, much less the perennial contender I'm sure the gm has been promising behind closed doors. how many years of trying to be bad before it stops becoming a "strategy"?
If we don't win the lottery, I have to assume Philly is the next team to root for. Not that they would deal the first pick, but they'd probably be the most likely since they don't have the need. Maybe they end up doing Embiid, but they might be able to trade down a few spots and bring in a tangible asset rather than extra draft picks. This is Philly though
Honest question: Can a player not graduated from college but in the draft opt out of the draft if they hear they've been drafted by such an absolutely horrible team?
I think if you enter your name in the draft, your rights belong to that team. So the player could conceivably sit out until their rights expire, but that'd take 2-4 years...
I just think there has to be something that can be done about Philly being in a perpetual state of extreme losing. Maybe a sort of diminishing returns on tanking? Say every year after maybe the first 2 that you are in the bottom 3 record wise, you start losing lottery balls? I'm just thinking out loud here, as philly has had plenty of chances to field at least a serviceable team.
Guess they were afraid he might win a game for them. Wonder where he goes. He was adamant about not leaving money on the table and didn't care about ring chasing, so my guess is the highest bidder.
Just watched a Bucher video on B/R McGee's landing spots: 10 teams interested in him, most are playoff teams. Among them -- Heat, Clipps, Warriors, Raptors, Rockets. He wants a team that has a plan on what to do for him for the second half of his career, welcoming culture. Doesn't want to be sold on the playoff/missing piece pitch.
Was reading bleacher report article on who had better sixer career - bynum or mcgee? it got me searching the internet for bynum news and i ran into an article that i had not seen - reportedly bynum got paid his entire 16.9 million by an insurance policy that the sixers took out on him - wow (old news probably for all of you) but that means no one lost out on that lost season other than philly fans. I think the fans have either all jumped ship by now or are numb to this kind of stuff.
