Problem is Irving and Leonard are both Kokoo for Cocoa Puffs and the bucks are more inexperienced than the 6ers. On the stability and experience chart the 76ers probably top the three other contenders. I give the 70hinkies a legitimate shot of making the finals. (For the record I hate the city and Philadelphia and every sports team therein so it is taking a lot of bile swallowing to post this.)

I:would suppor the bucks as well because giannis is so likable. I just don’t think the team is ready experiencing and coaching wide. Boston and Toronto can burn in a tire fire.

One thing that never fails is NBA GmS believe their windows of opportunity are much bigger than they really are.

If Thay3r doesn't want it, Id do my sixers vs your Celtics must win eastern conference for up to $100.

why didn't they trade AD for Kuzma and Ball + picks if he is leaving anyways?

Fierce debate. Team 6ers EC champs: patron, AIML, 8bus?, bile-swallowing markksman? Others welcome.

Kyrie might be a bigger injury risk than Embiid aorn.

I agree that the Rapz are legit, and this year's Playoff Rapz should be >>> past fraudulent versions. The biggest fraud, DDR, is gone, but Lowry still a little suspect.

Chandler/Muscala --> Tobias = a little bit of ground?

He is signed this year and next year before he declines his '20-'21 player option. They don't need to take the Lakers offer because they aren't pressured to do anything yet. They can wait for a better one in the offseason or during next years trade deadline. They think they can do better than Ball/Kuzma/picks. Can they? I guess we'll see.

This story turned out to be even dumber than most already dumb tampering stories.

The 6ers are the ones who initiated contact with the Lakers!

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/2...violated-rules

"To clarify, last November the 76ers sent an email to the Lakers asking if Ben Simmons would be able to speak with Magic Johnson about his Hall of Fame playing career," it read. "After receiving the email request from the 76ers, Lakers General Manager Rob Pelinka contacted 76ers General Manager Elton Brand and informed him that Magic could only do so if the 76ers gave him pre-written approval. That was the end of the matter."

Even if the media didn't know that already, it's there in Magic's actual comments on the matter that got misreported:

Johnson told reporters on Sunday in Philadelphia, "[Simmons] reached out to me, not to me directly; to the Lakers to find out if we can get together this summer. I said, 'Hey, you've got to clear that with the league,' and if everybody -- the Sixers sign off, we sign off, the league signs off -- fine, I will do that. ... But I love his game. I love his vision. I love also, too, he's very, in terms of basketball IQ, very high basketball IQ."

For media or Twitter or anyone to make something out of this is beyond stupid. As are tampering rules anyway. Just abolish them.

The NBA being covered as a soap opera started with LeBron to the Heat and I feel like it has really peaked the last 1-2 years, surely this bubble will be ending soon, right?

umm, right?

Just seems like they're running out of stuff to beat into the ground and might have to cover actual sports soon...

Chandler/Musacala/Shamet to Tobias/Boban/Scott is an upgrade, but so is Maker----Mirotic.

MIL's PD was on a historical level, while Philly's is that of a top 5 team THIS YEAR after acquiring Butler, and meh before. Furthermore, Philly struggled with all of the top teams in the East prior to the trade while MIL has layed wasted to all of the elite teams.

They had a lot of ground to make up to be on MIL's level imo, hell even Toronto, and made up some of it.

Boston is idk and therefore I won't bet them alone. Theoretically they just aren't as talented, however they just seem to match up well with Philly (2-9 in their last 11, with 5 of those in the playoffs). Kyrie wasn't playing in either of their losses as well.

Sports are a great TV drama, though. You have your villains and your heroes; even Cersei and Stringer Bell have fans.

For the East, you got your upstarts like Marlo takin' over corners in the Bucks; your perennial Kings of the North trying to finally take over the whole damn Conglomerate like Prop Joe in the Raps; your dynasty that's been running it for years like the Barksdales in the Celtics; even your politician that's been nickel and diming people until he reached as far as he could go like Clay Davis in the Process 76ers. This is just the middle episodes where there's drama and side stuff going on between the minor characters and enforcers before the real season starts.

Enjoy the ride in the middle of the season bc like all Wire seasons, this one is over in the penultimate episode: the conference finals.

Dood, your analysis of what happened pre-trade deadline is correct. Your projections forward don't seem to think Tobias makes much difference, and that's where we disagree. I think Tobias will make a much bigger difference than Mirotic or Gasol or whoever, and that by the playoffs, they will have closed the gap. We'll just have to see what happens, I guess.

1urker, nice, that's real nice.

To answer your question though, yes, yes he is, but mainly for building a LeBron team without much shooting and thinking that was the best way to go, and for brilliantly articulate comments like this one about the failed AD negotiations:

"We knew that basically at the end of the day, what happened, happened. And we knew that when we first started, in terms of what happened. But hey, it is what it is."

I think that Tobias makes a bigger difference than Mirotic and Gasol, but I also think that Philly was far behind them prior.

Seadood,

SMH



Colin,

76ers vs Celtics?




Knicks,

FREE FRANK

Strengths are recruting and coaching defense and "all for one" attitude. Some serious weaknesses. Like totally hitting the brakes when he could have won title game by 30+ instead winning by 8, and hitting the brakes when undefeated 38-0 and losing instead of drawing away for Wisconsin in Final Four. Dude has deep undefeated runs at 3 different schools yet only one title in which he was standing on the brake pedal the whole second half. It's a weakness.

What is this historical talk? Bucks starting lineup = +9.0/100, Sixers last year = +20.4/100, this year +11.8/100 and they've now replaced their by far worst player in the unit with Tobias.


You're mainly just slurping the Bucks depth and good regular season coaching

Free tickets are the best tickets

https://imgur.com/gallery/oeqK6nW

TZ posts on OKC after the Jazz playoff loss haven't aged well.

Getting rid of Melo and a few decent moves was all that was needed. And that is with Russ having a bad year/decline offensively.

and paul george playing at an mvp level

PG with 17 in the quarter and letting Portland’s bench hear it after basket. Guy is on another planet right now.

What seems to be happening here in Boston is Danny Ainge ****ed over the celtics. I think his talk of trying to get davis really messed with a lot of the players heads. They all know they are on chopping block. Usually Danny makes great moves but that was really dumb.

Dario finally got a start tonight! And good lord has he been putrid. He's had more bad games that good games by a comfortable margin.

It's amazing how much money and resources the wolves have invested in front court mates for Towns that aren't as good as Bjelica who was already on the roster. And the one move they should have done (draft Markkanen) they didn't do.

The real MVP has 25-5-5 on 8/11 at the half. RWB may get ejected tonight. Definitely rustled.

Luol Deng is the Wolves' 2nd best player. Maybe Derrick Rose.

kiwi a game low -7

couldnt do it without him

He is in a perpetual state of rustlage