If a player (say AG) wanders in there, do they pull a screen down real quick? Jump in front of it? Distract him?

Trade the Browns another pick to get Osweiler back?

Oh, that’s maybe the *least* surprising thing.

Right, it’s an amazing demonstration of how awful things are there that the the murder of a player by a teammate and ensuing smearing of the dead player by the coach might not be the worst thing to happen in the recent past.

The “we were willing to overlook that you were a scumbag, until you went and reminded people you were a scumbag” rule.

I get it — they’re both sold with a certain calm empiricism that promises if we all make a shared sacrifice now, there will be a great, Utopian benefit from that.

right, everyone has their own orders, but I think having Kyrie Irving — a guy who put up 40 in the Finals and might be the best ball handler in the league — is the 13th best point guard certainly illustrates the point as well.

Shit, I knew someone would make me do it:

KAT for his age, too.

It’s amazing that guys like Bledsoe, Dragic and Hill would be somewhere between 13 and 15 in most PG rankings.

Yeah, but they wouldn’t have ever been down by that much if he was any good! /s

I’m literally not saying any of that. I’m saying if you draft an injury-prone huge dude, it’s hardly bad luck when he gets injured again.

Have you seen In the Loop? I think Nunes is just in panicked spin control mode.

Your feet, back and knees are all connected. When guys that size have problems in one area, it tends to cause problems in other areas.

I’m talking specifically about Embiid’s foot being bad luck though.

Hey, when you want government intervention to magically revitalize your dying industries, you have to vote for the party that is opposed to all government intervention, believes the private market will solve everything, and doesn’t want to spend money to help you.

Embiid’s foot had to have a second surgery. Foreseeable, but bad luck, could’ve gone the other way.

The way I’ve understood it is that Hinkie’s analysis was that if you draft in the top 5 for 5 seasons, you had a high probability of drafting a franchise player, so 5 seasons max, then a couple of seasons for those players to gel and improve.

Damning with faint praise there.

I’d like to see Blake go to Miami, because I feel like it’s what his Clippers experience should have been — running point guard, defensive center PLUS a bunch of interchangeable wings who can shoot and defend.