FTFY, just imagine if they had $26M of flexibility in lieuDET would happily give PHI Tobias Harris, AKA salary filler, for him.
2024-2025 Sixers: Maxey-mizing or Minimizing?
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Embiid was coming off a 2nd, 2nd, and 1st in MVP voting. Tell me again why it was unnecessary to keep him around to let him potentially walk the following year? There isn’t a GM in the world who would risk their career in not extending him at that point. Nevermind that it was probably mandated by ownership to begin with.
Yea this was a no brainer extension. Franchise player, MVP, etc. You figure it out in year 4 or 5 if it goes sideways but you gotta do that
No, he was coming off a season in which he played fewer than half of the games, and for the 7th straight year, failed to lead his team to the conference finals. I agree they did have to do it (in for a penny, in for a pound), but the extension was signed just 2 months ago, not after his MVP season.
Yup, he had 2 guaranteed years left and signed the contract on September 20th, after last year's injuries and Embiid looking meh in the Olympics.
Absolutely not an extension that Philly had to offer.
Plus he's into his 30s now. I don't really think Age 33-34 Joel Embiid at Supermax was a contract that had to be signed. This isn't Jrue Holiday.
But just think - if they didn’t sign him to this extension, he might threaten to not play.
View: https://twitter.com/TheDunkCentral/status/1859741602605920749
Most of this will go away once they start winning some games (which has to happen at some point, right?), but man is this whole situation just a disaster.
Most of this will go away once they start winning some games (which has to happen at some point, right?), but man is this whole situation just a disaster.
You have your dates off Ole Boy
Morey extended him on Sept 20, 2024
1. Embiid looked like a shell of himself in the Summer Olympics.
2. 7-year low 39 games played last season
3. Embiid with the 4th year player option is the cherry on top.
4. $300M over the next 5-years
It feels like his days of contending for MVP are in the rearview mirror.
I figured Morey would wait until next summer. NOPE he pulled the trigger way too early IMO.
These were my thoughts at the beginning of September. It has pretty much played out.
The 76ers were my favorite short this year.
Thank you, I thought I was crazy. He signed the extension 2 months ago and still had 2 years left. This was not a move that had to be made, especially given his age/brittleness.
150 points seems a bit lofty for Embiid to hit this season, no?
But this also explains why they haven't won many games.
It's going to have to be for another bad contract. Kawhi and Beal come to mind. Other pieces of course, but I can imagine scenarios where a team wants to dream on Embiid and Philly wants to dream on their overpaid guy, in a year or so.
reunited broken Kawhi and broken George in Philly would be pretty funny, I have to agree.
"assign NBA players to Hogwarts houses" would be a fun diversion on some off day. Like, D White, obvious Hufflepuff. Embiid, clearly Slytherin. Tatum, definite Gryffindor. But the hat would have trouble with, say, Jaylen.
Even those gawd awful contracts won't cover the $300M in jelly donuts Joel is buying right now.
All jokes aside, Embiid will return to being an All-Star-level player when he plays. BUT expect his "Games Played, Minutes, and Playoff availability" to be spotty and continue to worsen. His stats will look good; it's just that darn injury luck that nobody could have predicted
I know what it looks like now, but things change fast. Joel runs together 50 games of Good Joel, and other GMs start salivating.Even those gawd awful contracts won't cover the $300M in jelly donuts Joel is buying right now.
All jokes aside, Embiid will return to being an All-Star-level player when he plays. BUT expect his "Games Played, Minutes, and Playoff availability" to be spotty and continue to worsen. His stats will look good; it's just that darn injury luck that nobody could have predicted
Are the 50 games o er 1 season or 2?
Embiid out tonight and Sunday (at least) with left knee swelling. https://www.libertyballers.com/2024/11/22/24303235/joel-embiid-questionable-brooklyn-nets-left-knee-injury-management-philadelphia-76ers-sixers-nba
Wait until 2023 Joel Embiid and 2019 Paul George come back. We'll all be sorry then.
3-13 is really not promising. I wonder what the worst first 16 games is for a team that won a championship---I bet it is better than that.
Only one has ever had so much as a losing record: The ABA's Nets in 1973-74, at 6-10.
NBA-wise, that's 8-8 by the 1998-99 Spurs and 1950-51 Royals.
Cmon guys, that’s not the standard. The question is what’s the worst record ever thru 16 gmaes to have made the conference finals. Territory that Slimbiid has never ventured.
I know this is a joke but I had some fun with it on a genuine level...
1977-78 Sonics, 4-12 start, lost in 7 to the Bullets in the Finals that year. Know you said conference Finals but still applicable. ABA also had the 4-12 1968-69 Pacers who lost in 5 in the ABA Finals to the Oaks.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMPChJO-J2s
I get the sense that these two don't like Embiid all that much.
I get the sense that these two don't like Embiid all that much.
All the value is gone not that this has gone viral. The time to play this prop was last week.
Another game, another DNP for Embiid & PG
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/42625592/76ers-joel-embiid-paul-george-miss-3rd-straight
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/42625592/76ers-joel-embiid-paul-george-miss-3rd-straight
Embiid played 39 games last year. What are the odds he plays even that many this season? It seems right now that the most he can possibly play this year is 56 games (that's every game after tonight, while always sitting one half of B2Bs).
The Sixers are coming off a few days rest with the Rockets on a road BTB (OT win).
Should be a slugfest in Q4
Should be a slugfest in Q4
All's well that ends well.
Sengun is a hell of a player. And Ime, whatever his flaws off the court, clearly is a top-shelf coach.
One of the keys to success is visualizing your goals:
“The offseason victory lap has long since turned into a desperate sprint toward a more tepid goal: winning enough games to stay within striking distance of a play-in tournament appearance, which team sources estimate will take at least 33 wins in the putrid Eastern Conference. Philadelphia entered the season projected to win 51.5 games.”
So go 30-35 from here, win two play-in games, and then go play Cleveland or Boston in the first round.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/42623978/leaks-team-meetings-losses-factors-driving-philadelphia-76ers-dreadful-start
Also, regarding the conversation about the Embiid extension:
“The team and Embiid had sought half a dozen medical opinions before signing him to a three-year, $192.7M extension this September, sources said, and all of those consulted believed his knee could be adequately managed by a combination of strategic rest and procedures to promote healing, which Embiid has been regularly undergoing since last season.”
Dunno. They didn’t ask me, but I probably would have said that if you are on your sixth second opinion, maybe you just wait and see how it goes for a few games.
“The offseason victory lap has long since turned into a desperate sprint toward a more tepid goal: winning enough games to stay within striking distance of a play-in tournament appearance, which team sources estimate will take at least 33 wins in the putrid Eastern Conference. Philadelphia entered the season projected to win 51.5 games.”
So go 30-35 from here, win two play-in games, and then go play Cleveland or Boston in the first round.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/42623978/leaks-team-meetings-losses-factors-driving-philadelphia-76ers-dreadful-start
Also, regarding the conversation about the Embiid extension:
“The team and Embiid had sought half a dozen medical opinions before signing him to a three-year, $192.7M extension this September, sources said, and all of those consulted believed his knee could be adequately managed by a combination of strategic rest and procedures to promote healing, which Embiid has been regularly undergoing since last season.”
Dunno. They didn’t ask me, but I probably would have said that if you are on your sixth second opinion, maybe you just wait and see how it goes for a few games.
It's times like these that we truly miss LondonSox . He would've had some righteous rants that would make a sailor blush.
The fact that the 76ers owe their 1st round pick to OKC (1-6 proteted) for dumping Horford during the 2020/21 season, who then went on to the
2022 Finals
2023 EC finals
2024 Champ
while the 76ers never made it that far even once... makes me smile on a rainy thursday!
2022 Finals
2023 EC finals
2024 Champ
while the 76ers never made it that far even once... makes me smile on a rainy thursday!
Yep, at some point they're going to have to decide whether to tank to avoid giving up the pick vs. trying to make the play-in. It's delicious.
People forget that Horford was quite good with Ben Simmons in his year in Philadelphia too. Those lineups were scary.
The 76ers are not a well-run franchise. I think Morey has been decent, all things considered, but his 2024 offseason was overrated. OMG he somehow found room for Eric Gordon, Caleb Martin, and Kelly Oubre!!!!