That was the quietest crowd I’ve heard all playoffs.

The Sixers have the added bonus of their best three young players not being redundant and fitting together.

He also produced zero points when guarded by Covington in game 1. Dragic is a fake all star and didn’t deserve the bid. Yes I’m bitter.

*Immediately sees how Trump is president*

I’m pretty sure he’s American now.

Covington is butt, therefore any and all metrics that prove otherwise must be butt.

Or you know, the actual NBAs rules on who is considered a rookie. Let’s take away Blakes ROY while we’re at it!

No, that would be the 6'10" point guard who is also on the Sixers.

This is the high quality journalism I’ve come to expect from deadspin. Fultz had an overwhelmingly positive (re)debut, but his first shot was an airball, so lol! He made two jump shots later, both with a defender on him.

Uh, have you seen how bad TJ has been since his triple double game? I just don’t see how Fultz (even without shooting 3s) would be a worse player than TJ in an extended slump. I don’t see him hurting the team.

He’s certainly fun to watch. He’d be ROY in most years, im not taking anything away from him. Just making sure you weren’t one of those idiots arguing pointzzz and Simmons can’t shoot (or that he’s not a rookie, but then he shouldn’t make the all star game because he’s a rookie).

Your last line made me need to ask: do you think Donovan Mitchell is the ROY?

The Pistons are the perfect example of why you first, do not try to remain as a team fighting for the 8 seed with not foreseeable growth, and second, mortgage your future to possibly become a lower end playoff team with a high payroll and no chance at improvement. For every Piston fan out there, I sincerely hope they…

I like how you showed the play that Embiid got trapped in a double (because he bullied LeBron the play before for an easy bucket) as the head picture. Don’t pick any of the exciting plays. Embiid swatted the shit out of an isolated PG (which the offense wanted) and you choose this picture of Embiid? Someone does not…

I was under the impression that the original dog was sung to the tune on (We are) Sailing by Rod Stewart.

I like the parts where he directly contradicts himself without even flinching. Basically: I know that the doctors are saying this particular injury can have certain affects on a specific range of motion and not others that seem similar or even more forceful, BuT wHy Is hE sHoOtiNg lAyUps aNd DuNking DuRr. MaKeS yUo…

I mean he’s still probably going to go like 6th even if he doesn’t play at all. If he plays a handful of games I doubt he goes 1. Maybe 2-4. I wouldn’t risk it for that. The salary difference from 2-6 is not that extreme.

They would be underdogs but would take them to at least 6.

So you’re saying fighting to be a bad playoff team isn’t good for the long term and an injured big man is a good reason to start the process? Hmm....I feel like deadspin did not hold that point of view of the sixers when Bynum never ended up playing after they gave significant resources for him after being a…

This is certainly good for the short term and probably? bad for the long term. A core of Blake Andre and Reggie ain’t winning shit other than a mid seed playoff spot for the next three years. They have ~70 million allocated for those three roster spots, a number which goes up ~5 million a year for the next 3 years.…