Reached for comment, McCloughan said he isn’t at the combine because of a death in the family. 

Amusing. Are you not the least bit curious or optimistic that in spite of the Sixers bullshit, Simmons and Embiid could both become generational talents? I mean as a casual NBA fan I’m hopeful but fuck that city. They don’t deserve anything since they cracked the Liberty Bell.

Jameis is still more qualified than Betsy DeVos. And has fewer sexual assault victims than trump.

I’ll be shocked if “You got your sports from ESPN.com” doesn’t end up in a “23 Signs You’re an Aughties Kid” listicle on buzzfeed in 2020.

They replaced them with ombudswomen. Quiet, complacent ombudswomen. 

Zydrunas Ilgauskas played in only 87 games over his first three seasons, and 111 games over his first four seasons, due to recurring navicular bone injuries in his feet (the same injury that kept Embiid out his first two seasons). After that, he averaged 73 games per season over his next ten seasons. So there’s…

You won a World Series and have been to a Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, and NBA Finals in your adult life (maybe late teens for the NBA, depending). You’ve done ok.

Embiid is developing right on schedule. Like many rookies before him, he’s finding his comfort zone right after the all star break.

::waits anxiously::

I was really happy when Markieff hit bofa.

I admire your dedication and faith, but it’s been four years and they’ve won 68 games. At what point do they need to have a decent season to confirm your faith? And do they need a title to justify this long period of mostly intentional losing? What if the best you get is a modern version of the mid 90's Hornets? Don’t…

You’re forgetting the Kings are the Kings and there’s no way they handled a trade negotiation well

That a good question, almost as good as “Why did they draft 3 centers in 3 consecutive years?”

My pessimism is based on listening to Magic talk about basketball for the last decade.

What is this article? This has nothing about the Cardinals losing a baseball game.

Craig Sager:

Has anyone mentioned the warriors lost after being up 3-1 in the finals last year?

I agree. That’s why I used the word “promising” and didn’t say “who will definitely and without a doubt”. I know what I typed, and why. But thanks.

No way. Those Sixers teams that Iverson dragged into the playoffs year after year—including to the Finals, where he singlehandedly scraped a road game off one of the most dominant teams the NBA has ever had!—were absolute trash, beyond AI himself. Absolute trash.

Melo dragged a Syracuse team with nothing else but trash on it to an NCAA title as a freshman. He took a succession of weirdly assembled, dysfunctional teams to the playoffs in each of his first 10 seasons in the NBA—seven of them in the then-brutally stacked Western Conference. He also has three gold medals as one of…