On Monday, Chip Kelly was asked at his press conference whether or not he felt the need to assure the players that the rumors of him going back to college were untrue.
Kelly responded with his typical, smug answer that he essentially felt it unnecessary to address the team to shoot down rumors.
And sure enough, the embattled head coach flip-flopped on that position, opting to address the team on Tuesday and tell them that he wasn’t going anywhere.
Per Jeff McLane, Kelly told the players that he would remain in Philadelphia, “as long as the Eagles would have him.”
The end of that statement is very interesting.
While Kelly basically confirmed that he would not leave the Eagles of his own accord, he left the door open for the possibility of something else to happen towards the end of the season. Chip and Jeffrey Lurie obviously communicate regularly to some degree, and its possible that Kelly’s wording at the end of that statement is an indication that his status with the team beyond this season is still cloudy.
Meanwhile, Crossing Broad’s Kyle Scott has stated that he’s received word from several sources that Kelly and Jeffrey Lurie have a “mutual agreement” in place to part ways at the end of the season.
The Eagles are such a mess right now, and this isn’t the last we’ll hear about speculation regarding Kelly’s future. At this point, nothing would surprise me.
Hopefully that “mutual agreement” will get our 2nd round pick back via Tennessee. I’m not so sure anyone in the Eagles organization is capable of pulling off that kind of snow job………..
We can only hope.
I’m hearing the Titans 2nd Rounder in 2016 and a 3rd Rounder in 2017 Draft
In Return for Chip.. I would take this Ina heartbeat
Where do we sign?
If Tennessee wants him then it’s a minimum of a first and second…we draft 2 OL, hire an NFC east type of coach and play ball…
Titans are trending to have the 1st or 2nd Pick of the Draft in 2016 so their 2nd Rounder is the #33 or #34 Player Selected in 2016 which is almost like a late 1st Rounder
Owner Lurie want out of Kellys Contract too so it’s a Win-Win For Both Clubs
Take any close deal for Chip and move forward
Hire Sean McDermott as HC and keep Shurmur as OC/Asst Head Coach and let Shurmur handle the Offense while McDermott focus’s on rebuilding the Eagles Defense back to a 4-3
(b Graham and C Barwin become hand on the ground Pass-Rushers while Kiko Alonso & Kendricks become the Sam & WILL LB’s with Hicks the MIKE LB
Add another DT,CB – Move Rowe to Safety, Re-Sign Thurmond and move him to Slot CB , have Shepard compete with New CB for Carroll’s Replacement
And start from there
no way is the Chipper getting an out and leaving town while the Eagles are stuck with another year of Sanchez plus multiple years of Murray and Maxwell. I want to see him scratching that neck every press conference squirming. If the birds are losing I want to see the architect answers those snarky loaded media questions every Sunday and Monday.
Clowns.
Sixer get that first victory baby, with Kobe leaving Philly for the last time with a L.
entertaining game –
Lakers are a really slow team. Kobe was awful in the 2nd half. As long as Kobe is on the court the Lakers have no chance to win. Sixers are not getting the Lakers 1st round pick. They are worse than the Sixers.
Lakers will get Ben Simmons in next Years Draft
That would be the absolute worst, as of now, the Sixers would have the most ping pong balls in the tank. The Sixers will probably still have the worse record between them and the Lakers, I think Sam is hell bent on that. If the Lakers get the overall first pick and the Sixers have the worse record, the fix will be in.
#SuckforSimmons!!!
well here is what i think kobe will obviously get hurt or even worse stay healthy and suck and all the teams will want to beat kobe on his last hurrah… the sixers will gel, brown will somehow get them on a ‘streak’, the nba doesn’t want to reward the sixers for the joke they are playing on the league and the fans… sixers will not get simmons. will draft another good but not franchise changing player, red shirt him, keep saric in Siberia and tank again. book it!
saric is on record as saying he tried hard to come to philly this year but couldnt get out of his turkish contract. he has said he has an out this upcoming season and will take it and come to philly
although to me saric is irrelevant, he isnt special at all. think his upside is iguadala without the dunks
It is patently absurd to state that the Laker’s problem is kobe. It is equally absurd to suggest that the rest of the Lakers are worst than the Sixers, who are weekend pick up team outside of Nerlens and Jahlil without providing context. as much as I hate tanking, at the least the sixers excuse is a true lack of nba talent. What’s the lakers excuse? There isn’t a credible person who would suggest there starting 5 is worst than ours. Maybe Scott isn’t as good as advertised. maybe the West is truly twice as good as the east. maybe Brown would have produced more victories with a legit team like the lakers.
This is playing out just frat for the sixers… They will tank yet again, get the number three pick, the lakers protectd pick will be put off another year… They have other protected picks probably won’t get them … Perfect
disagree. lakers/sixers will have top 2 most ping pong balls who knows what happens there although its extremely likely both get top 3 picks and we dont get lakers in that scenario but it will pay off eventually… suppose lakers get #1 pick and sixers #2 pick, i think lakers would have to think long and hard about a sixers offer of noel, our #2 pick, and their 1st round draft pick they us back to them… will see
regarding the other protected picks they are miamis (top 10 protect) and okc (lottery protected) and at its likely we get both of them but really who cares because they both gonna be shit picks
Listening to the comments about Kelly and the things coming out about the sixers and there are striking similarities… that is these analytic mad scientist types don’t take the human element into account. To them its analytics– concern from the eagles camp (kudos to shady) that chip treats them like machines, and we know hinkie does… dunno– its stilll a game played by humans
I heard that Hinkie is tracking his Fans that come to the Arena to Watch the 76ers by having his Attendance Personnel place “Computer Chips’ on the back on the Neck as Fans enter thru the Turnstiles…
There’s a major difference between the Sixers and Eagles though…
The Sixers have been consistent with their plan, and what they’re trying to do is clearly defined. Tank for draft position, accumulate assets, sell high on fraudulent building blocks (MCW, who has already been benched in Milwaukee) and turn them into more assets.
With Chip Kelly, I feel like he’s just making it all up as he goes. There’s no clear plan here, there’s no focus. Just a lot of bizarre, ego-driven decisions that have led to the team being run into the ground during the third year of his regime rather than ascending.
SPOT ON DENNY
I’m speaking specifically as to how they relate to humans/players– like machines and not like people
even you say it denny in your response…’assets’… cattle, possessions etc. and you also contend that the sixers are ascending? what evidence do you have of this?
Because every year, the amount of assets continues to pile up and pile up.
They have a stockpile of first-round picks that are waiting to convey. Not all of them may come this year, but the amount of top picks that the team has control of continues to multiply by the season.
They’ve already got Noel and Okafor in place, and will only grow and get better.
Meanwhile, Brett Brown has been doing his part and has found some gems in the rough that could be part of the team’s bench once the major pieces come into place.
Robert Covington has come from the scrap heap and developed into one of the team’s primary scorers, a top three-point shooter, and this year is becoming a force on the defensive end, he’s been a steals machine so far.
Jerami Grant, one of last year’s second-round picks has a very nice all-around game. He plays within himself, doesn’t try to do too much. There’s a role for him in the future too.
They may find another one of those guys or two as this year goes on.
And by the way, even if the worst case scenarios play out and it all doesn’t work out…the team has a ridiculous amount of cap room to fall back on, and they can go on a spending spree any year of their choosing.
Right now, the roster they have may not be all that much closer to contending than what they were when this plan started. But when you look at the big picture, the franchise has an enormous amount of options and flexibility to move forward, and improve in a variety of ways.
Its a slow process, but its a process with merit behind it, and I can’t say the same for what’s gone on with the Eagles.
oh i thought ascending meant you were getting better and winning games? ‘Assets’– you have bought into the stinkie ponzie scheme.
Let me ask you the same question I’ve asked many Hinkie critics over the last few years, a simple question that I’ve yet to receive any kind of satisfactory answer.
What’s your alternative?
Should the Sixers have just built around Jrue Holiday, Thad Young, and Evan Turner? How do you think that would have gone down? Holiday’s body has been falling apart since the Sixers dealt him, Turner is barely a decent bench piece.
Should the Sixers have gone the Elton Brand route all over again and thrown their cap room at guys like Al Jefferson, Josh Smith, or Lance Stephenson, you know all of the B and C list free agents that command max deals?
LeBron, Bosh, and the real difference makers in free agency weren’t coming here, so if you go to free agency, it’d be one of those lesser guys.
Look, the Sixers have tried to do it the “right way” for more than 15 years now since they last made a run in the finals. We saw that song and dance for years, and the absolute ceiling for that method was the hollow run they had in 2012 when they needed a Derrick Rose injury to get past the Bulls in that first round playoff series.
Because I’ve seen the other way fail time and time again, that’s why I’m willing to give the Hinkie plan a chance.
If the goal is to build something that has a chance to truly contend and do something special, I think something like this is the kind of plan you need in place to do it in a broken, flawed league like the NBA. I’ll go for the long-term, big-picture approach over a shortsighted “WIN NOW” when all that “WIN NOW” means is an eighth seed over and over again.
You are obligated to make your team as competitive as possible. Is that a clear enough answer? You don’t play 82 games a year where you can’t compete…this is PROFESSIONAL sports… People pay to watch u compete
Ha honestly, no. That’s on par with every other lame answer I’ve heard to that question.
Again, look going after an eighth seed every year just for the sake of being competitive…we’ve been there, we’ve done that, yeah maybe its something to watch, but it never has a chance to be anything special.
Can you tell me all of the memorable moments and seasons from the Sixers post 2001? Not too many huh?
Those were all wasted years, settling for trying to win with the Iguodala’s, the Brand’s, the Chris Webbers, etc.
And that’s exactly what they would have been had they stayed the course with what they were doing, if they were even lucky enough to be as good as some of those teams.
Again, the goal is to win a championship. Why not trade a handful of eighth seed appearances to take a chance that this method could develop and grow into something that’s truly great?
And again, if it doesn’t work, at the end of the day, they’ll leave the next regime with plenty of cap room to work with to go out and get your Brands, Iguodalas, and Webbers and get themselves back to NBA purgatory once again.
You aren’t obligated to win?wow…how long do you get?
Lakers will trade Lou Williams before trade deadline for something. Kobe will eventually either get hurt or pretend to be hurt and stop suiting up.
Sixers will add Kendall Marshall and Tony Wroten and cut Phil Pressy and get instantly better. The Sixers will try to trade for a shooting guard who plays better defense than Cannan and Stauskas. they were rebuffed when attempting to sign Kawhi Leonard and Jimmy Butler but it is obvious that is their number one priority.
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THIS 2ND VIDEO SHOWING BIG JAH KNOCKING OUT A 2ND PERSON LATER THAT NIGHT IN BOSTON IS BETTER THAN THE 1ST… KID SHOULD JOIN THE UFC, JUST PUTTING PEOPLE TO SLEEP WITH 1 PUNCH LEFT AND RIGHT…
LMFAO THAT MAN IN THE NEW VIDEO GONNA GET PAID…
BIG JAH GONNA BE ARRESTED…
Jahlil has major alcohol rage tendencies — It appears his body reacts severely to alcohol. His father better get a hold of his son and convince his son to speak to a mental health care worker immediately to help him sort through his repressed anger before a death happens. I personally would advise Jahlil to stop consuming alcohol.
Michael Wilbon reported yesterday that David Aldridge and himself keep hearing the same rumors that Jahlil Okafor does not want to be in Philadelphia with this ownership. His agent made that clear before the draft and nothing has changed. He never wanted to be apart of this Josh Harris and Sam Hinkie team and still doesn’t. Sixers are going to have max contract these kids to stay & even still that may not connive them to stay or they are bolting each and everyone of them.
FOR HIS SAFETY HINKIE BETTER STOP TANKING AFTER THIS YEAR OR BIG JAH GONNA WHOOOOP THAT ASS
Okafor has been warned. Hes had one gun pulled on him and hes lucky it wasn’t the wrong person pulling it. Number 1 hes going to run into the wrong group of guys that will beat him down. Number two hes going to run into the wrong guy who wont give a fuck about emptying his gun into him or Number 3 the most disturbing to me is how the hell he can do104 on the Ben Franklin. lol
Reports are that 76ers will be releasing Joel Embiid after this Season
So there’s 1 Lottery Pick that didn’t pan out already..
Celtics are very interested in Nerlens Noel who wants back to New England
Not true on Embiid, and the Celtics can have him, for 1ST Round draft pick, and a slice of molded bread to complete the deal.
Why are you guys even talking about the Sixers? Let’s get all in for Simmons wait haven’t you guys traveled this road before? Haha Hinkie is the best, job security until 2020 when they’ll just be getting into the first round of playoffs.
The sixers are a classless POS organization. The handling of these Okafor situation has been clueless, inept and down right criminal. He should be suspended immediately for at least two incidences of underage drinking, physical violence to other copitizens
76ers should Put Okafor in a 30-60-90 Day Rehab Center for Alcohol/Anger Management Issues Immediately if they really cared about his Future..
What’s more Security going to do.. Protect himself better from himself ?
Okafor Suspended for 2 Games by the 76ers was Announced Shortly ago..
Many gcobb posters believe that Okafor should be released from the team due to his using a racial epithet while drunk at a social event. HAC on the other hand realizes that the offensive term is part of everyday vernacular for young men on athletic teams. He should be suspended and get some sensitivity training… When that is over he should be welcomed back to the team as a young man that said something stupid. On the other hand his actual physical violence should be punished.
Those posters have been eerily quiet yet it was the same exact word used in eerily similar situations… I don’t understand that
Denny Basens haveacigar hates the Sixers he hates Sam Hinkie, and just about every move the team has made up until this point. He dosen’t care about giving Hinkie’s plan a chance he’s against it no matter what. He wants the Sixers to fail miserably, he loves all the negative publicity the Sixers receive from the media, and fans. Anthything Sixer related he’s all over it spewing his contempt for the Sixers and their players. He wants Hinkie to scrap his plan, and build the Sixers the way he wants them to be built.
I don’t love it but I think it’s justified…
Yeah right haveacigar. If the Sixers do something good it’s bad if Hinkie breathes wrong it’s bad, and you’ll be right there to add your negative posts going against the Sixers. If Hinkie actually does pull this off, and his plan actually does work you will be right there to say Hinkie just got lucky without ever giving him any credit at all for at least thinking outside the box. You were against the Sixers from the start you don’t want to understand the plan Hinkie is trying to execute because your intense hatred for the Sixers has blinded you, and crippled your brain. Nothing but pure hatred rules your brain, and thoughts regarding anything that is Sixer related that’s why you take such a hardline stance against the organization.
Not sure what your talking about. The sixes are a joke … Its national joke. I didn’t make that up and if they do win it I’ll tip my hat say I’m wrong but will the stinkies do the same?
I don’t believe that MacDolo, I think HAC, like many others, is simply tired & frustrated that the 76ers are not improving and that GM Hinkle does field as competitive a Team as possible in what,Year 4 of a Rebuild…
The NBA Season is 1/4 over and the 76ers just Won their first game…
The frustration sets in when you expect something, and you don’t get it Hinkie made it clear from the jump what he planned on doing. He didn’t beat around the bush send subliminal messages he laid it out there plain, and simple for even a fool could understand. So by that being said you either take it or leave it Hinkie is not backing off his plan. Now what has happened is Sixers fans have run out of patience so now they like haveacigar have turned on the Sixers. Yeah Paulman the Sixers have won just 1 game that’s like you know part of the plan so like where in the hell have you been.
They have 3 top 3 picks on the roster and can’t win a game. Their best ‘asset’ is getting ready to be arrested and the sixers were late to the party in getting him help. Stinkie suspended him for 2 measly games and refused comment… they are the biggest laughing stock in sports… keep defending.
who are the 3 top 3 picks you speak of? i guess youre including embiid? Okafor is one for sure and embiid was top 3 but hurt and thats just bad luck. who is the 3rd top 3 pick?
i dont see it as 4 years paul. hinkie has only had 2 tanking drafts so far… that first draft he inherited shit players and a shit pick and had to clean up the slop and get rid of the frauds, ie moving jrue, turner, thad… guy has had 2 tanking drafts and this year is the 3rd, it was always the plan that this is what was going to happen… need to come away with simmons this year…
also i think they should move nerlins if they can get another #1 pick or a good player. i just dont see him being anthing better than (dalembert at best – just like dcar/gmcliff said)
WOW @ BEN SIMMONS LAST NIGHT ARE YOU KIDDING????????
43 POINTS
14 REBOUNDS
7 ASSISTS
5 STEALS
3 BLOCKS
THATS WHY WE TANKING.
THE NEXT NBA SUPERSTAR IS RIGHT THERE, ALL WE NEED IS THAT PING PONG BALL TO COME UP PHILLY
Simmons will end up with the Lakers .. The NBA doesn’t care if the 76ers ever become good again…
stupid point. by that logic the nba really cared if the new orleans pelicans, cavs, t wolves, trailblazers, raptors, bucks all got good the past 10 drafts…
It’s a Stupid League… What Can I Say…
henski was right the first time about how stupid your comment was. Now you double down with this? He literally blew up your dumb-ass comment with this:
“stupid point. by that logic the nba really cared if the new orleans pelicans, cavs, t wolves, trailblazers, raptors, bucks all got good the past 10 drafts…”
You remind me of a 15 year old girl. Always bumping your gums about stupid ish without a care to whether it makes sense.
you do realize it was against the NORTH FLORIDA OSPREYS?????
***NCAA News***
U Of Miami Hurricanes Hire Coach Mark Richt to head the Hurricanes Program Richt was a Back-up QB on the Hurricanes from 1979-1982 behind Jim Kelly and a Career 74% Winning Coaching Record over his 15 Years in the Toughest NCAA Football Conference (the SEC)
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I stand corrected Noel fell to 5-6 whatever it was because he was damaged goods…. he would have been a top three pick. And of course I am including Embid, why wouldn’t I? he was drafted top three and is on the roster…
I believe Embiid never Plays a Game for the 76ers, just like Bynum a couple Years back.. Swing and Miss on him big time…
You don’t just believe that Paulman that’s exactly what you would like to see happen along with that worthless piece of shit imbecile haveacigar. You would enjoy to see the Sixers plans end up in total catastrophe. You would get such a hard on if that were to happen you wouldn’t even have to take levitra for your erectile dysfunction. Any chance you get to take a cheap shot at the Sixers your going to do it with pure delight.
So Mac, this is tank number 3… Let’s say they get pick 3 and it’s not Simmons (remember he scored 43 on the Ospreys) do they have tank number 4?
Go call Joshua Harris he could tell you for sure.
Haaahahaaaa at the ED joke. That was good
Gotta go with a mini tank next year too Josh Jackson projected to be a star.
So next year is tank number four? Wow…ok sounds like a plan. NO TEAM has gon on a purposeful four year tank! Oh and by the way, the lakers will have a worse record than us…. There goes that pick and the Osprey killer Simmons… It is nothing more than a joke…. Can someone please highlight what if anything Stinkie has accomplished in the nba? You can’t but he doesn’t have any…. Noel and Okafor can’t play together Embid has the death to big man injury (how did they not know that)…BTW Portzingas will be a better pro than Okafor
Too many people like you don’t understand the Sixers plan. The Sixers don’t have their whole future resting on whether they get the first pick in this year’s draft. That’s specifically why Hinkie has positioned himself to pick multiple times in the first round over the next several years. You dramatically increase the odds of landing a top flight player by having multiple chances to pick in the draft, especially in the first round.
Even people on Hinkie’s side fail to realize that there is no plan to be bad on purpose. The plan is to build slowly and painstakingly because the NBA salary rules, more than any other league, preclude a team from achieving a quick turnaround by acquiring veterans through free agency or trade, because the only ones available through either avenue are marginal talents who will be too expensive for the marginal improvement they’ll provide.
The NBA, through the creation of the rookie wage scale and the “maximum salary”, have made it so that building through the draft is far more cost efficient. They’ve taken the salary risk of drafting players from college and placed it on the dozens of mid-tier free agents that can be had because a team wants to trade and get rid of them, or signed outright in free agency after the season.
The Nba is the only league with a “maximum salary”. LeBron James is a bargain at 23 mil a season. If he were a free agent with no maximum salary rule, the bidding would start at 40 mil a season. Bidding Sam Hinkie would have been able to join in if he were in the NFL. MLB, or NHL. In the NBA, the amount James can get from his own team and what he can get from others is set. So their is no real money decision for him to make. It’s all about who gives him the best chance to win.
The problem is that there is only one James, and about 15-20 other players who truly have a huge impact on their teams fortunes. But while there are only a limited amount of those players, there is a huge pool of players not as good, but who make similar money to the top stars of the sport. Committing money to these types of players is how your ruin your chances of winning. You can sign mid-tier free agents for a quick boost if you’re a bad team, but then you will quickly find yourself in ruins with the vast amounts of money committed to players who aren’t good enough. See the Nets, Lakers, and Knicks. And in the Nba, there is no get out of jail free by cutting players with no guaranteed money left like the NFL. If you broke it, you bought it.
The draft gives you a cheaper alternative to acquire star players, with their salaries at a fixed cost. And if you land one, you can control him for 7-9 years before he ever gets a crack at unrestricted free agency. Steph Curry is currently getting paid only 11mil annually because the current contract he’s on is the one for restricted free agents who’s rookie deal is expiring, making them restricted free agents, whose team has the right to match any offer. So once Okafor, Noel, or other players prove themselves worthy of further commitment, the Sixers will easily be able to sign them.
When Hinkie got here in 2013 his only marketable player was a mid-tier player at the deepest position in the NBA. If he had an elite player to build around, he would have done so. What he had was a losing team, who traded that year’s 1st round pick, a future first, and Nikola Vucevic , in a trade that included their best player in Andre Igoudala. All that was left was a bunch of players in the 3rd or 4th year of their soon to be expiring rookie deals that weren’t worth committing any more money to.
So he traded an average player for a king’s ransom of two first round picks to start the rebuilding process and acquire the assets in order to rebuild the franchise. Only Okafor and Embid are players acquired at the top of the draft due to the Sixers being bad. What we have is a team of good young players, all with two years or less of Nba experience, who can compete on a night-to-night basis but don’t have the seasoning on order to win on a consistent basis. Okafor and Noel give the team and offensive and defensive cornerstone. McConnell has shown to be a shrewd acquisition after the draft was over. Covington is another player with a future on the team. Richaun Holmes is one to watch out for, he just needs to come back from injury, and Christian Wood has a lot of skill in a 6-11 size body. It’s just going to take time. The Oklahoma City Thunder drafted Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and James Harden in consecutive seasons and stunk all three years. They also traded away older vets to begin the rebuilding process. except Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis have had careers in the Nba that Evan Turner, Spencer Hawes, Thadeus Young, and Jrue Holliday could only dream of. People bitching about the “Process” seem to not understand that it has been barely over two years since Hinkie has been here. What four years are you referring to haveacigar? Hinkie got here in May 2013.
I understand it perfectly…The Noel draft he was 6 and that was a tank when they rightfully dumped mid tier players, the embid draft and the Okafor draft are three years of tanking, this year is number 4… A year or two of tanking is fine.., also it’s even better when the people in charge understand basketball and people…clearly Harris and Stinkie …
How the GM doesn’t come out and address the Okafor problem is behind me.. And you know why he doesn’t? Cause Okafor is an asset…not a person. This is going to be a disaster
It wasn’t a tank to get rid of players who weren’t good. Hawes and Turner aren’t any good. They aren’t close to mid-tier. Thad Young was a rotation player, but somebody was willing to give you a first round pick and the chance to draft a difference maker, rather than somebody who’s the 9th or 10th best player on a playoff team. Because the Sixers almost completely depleted the team of good players/assests in the acquisition of Bynum, Hinkie sold high on Holliday in order to rebuild. Tanking is taking a team that was winning and deliberately playing lesser players on the team in order to lose. Getting rid of the players on a losing team who aren’t any good isn’t tanking. What he did that was great was actually get a return for many of those players.
Once again, learn how to count. Hinkie was hired in May 2013. There is no year 4, it’s barely into year 3.
Why doesn’t he talk to the media about Okafor? Because there’s nothing to discuss publicly. He’s a young man who’s made some mistakes, not some societal issue that’s affecting many people who need answers. He’s going to handle it internally, like any good GM would do. What the hell would he call a press conference for?
It’s a TANK when you trade players to get worse you idiot
The GM makes a statement… It is how a business works… You’d number one asset (I hate that word because he’s a human)… You have to acknowledge it, discuss your intervention etc
So the 76ers Tank for 4-5 Seasons and become among the worst Professional Sport Teams ever assembled for these 4-5 Seasons, then they stock up on Draft Picks & Assets and hope to start gelling as a Real Team with all these Young Players in Years # 5 thru #8/9/10 and hope that they do not lose any of their own Young Talent to Free -Agency or who simply tired of losing or due to injury or simply don’t end up Drafting or Developing these Players to be as good as everyone thought they would be..
Basically as a Fan, the 76ers are irrelevant for a decade and at my age (52) do you really think I’m excited about how the Team may look in 2021?
Shit, I don’t… It goes back to these Young Fans who don’t know the History of Team Work, Knowing your Roles, Stressing Fundamentals , etc, etc instead of thinking a couple of Top Draft Picks are going to land the next Lebron, S Curry, K Durant, K Bryant, etc
As I said, there is no tanking going on. He’s trying to build the team from the ground up so it can be sustainably good, like the Spurs. As I said in the long post, a player with the Sixers who was drafted by them can’t simply leave when they’re rookie deal is up. They become restricted free agents who sign with any team but the Sixers can match the contract. What usually happens is the player sighs a 4 or 5 year deal, playing with the team for 8 or 9 years before becoming unrestricted free agents.
The Sixers aren’t relying on any one prosepect to be the guy, that’s why they stockpile draft picks and turnover the last 4 or 5 spots on the roster in order to cheaply find the guys they will build around. Sam Hinkie doesn’t keep all his eggs in one basket.
As for knowing the history of the Sixers I’m 35. I was alive the last time they won a championship, and old enough to have seen many highlights and tributes to that team. Last time I checked, Doctor J and Moses Malone were all-time great players. Maurice Cheeks was an outstanding player who was overshadowed by the other two, but whose numbers stacks up against any of the great point guards of his era. In order to win a championship, you need elite players, there is no other way. It won’t take a decade, but it will take a few years to be a contending team.
Joel Embiid grew 2 inches – he is 7 foot 2 inches. If this guy gets on the court the Sixers hit the mother load – massive undeniable furious ferrous rebounder.
And Embiid’s Feet cannot withstand his 425 LB’s .. Embiid is a Fraud like Bynum was and doesn’t want to work hard to get into shape and Play..
i still say Embiid’s never Plays a Game for the 76ers just as I stated about Bynum early on ..