As great as this list is and believe me it was absolutely hilarious and the people I startled in the conference room next to my desk will vouch for how loud I laughed the only issue I have with it is Boogie Cousins being lower than Big KAT/Gobert. Until the dysfunctional duo improves on their weaknesses then there is…

Yeah, that’s why a healthy Embiid has gotta be above him, IMO. He’s already a borderline elite defender and can carry a lot more on offense.

Davis > Embiid > Towns/Gobert (both dominant on one end of the ball, occasionally catastrophic on the other) > Cousins > Jokic > Drummond > Howard > Getting run over by a car > Whiteside

Agreed very much that it makes them scary. I’ll be surprised if they don’t make the finals in the next few years.

That’s what makes them so scary. You know what this team reminds me of: The 2010-2011 OKC Thunder. The team that lost to the Mavs in the Conference Finals. They didn’t know how to play yet and had ridiculous talent. Unfortunately for them they had an Alpha so overpowering he dwarfed the anointed Alpha, a third Alpha…

Completely agree. It’s a bad look, and he is not coming through. An Embiid-less Sixers lineup is a bad fit for him as a matchup. But having Embiid back looks to be even worse. On some level, it’s personal for Embiid, and he would love to have his first spin on the national stage in the playoffs to have the added bonus…

No reprieve here. He chose to beef with said generational player and started shit he can’t possibly finish. He gets what he asked for, and if that’s Embiid running roughshod on him and humiliating him, that’s on him.

I see them coming out and playing chippy again. I mean Winslow looked down at the mask or goggles that came off Embiid and deliberately stepped on them and then tried to break them with his hand. It comes down to whether the young guys on the Sixers can keep their cool. If they can they win.

See, I’m older so it’s usually Mr. Blue Sky by ELO.

The original reason why teams didn’t want him was PRECISELY because he was an insufferable prick. He calmed it down just enough to show he was useful, GOT PAAAAAIIIIID, then reverted back to being an insufferable prick.

The most interesting thing to me about watching these Sixers / Heat games is that Philadelphia doesn’t even really look like they know what they’re doing, yet. They look sloppy for big chunks of the game, in the “the kids are still figuring it out” kind of way. Yet they just have so much talent that during the…

That was a goddamned chippy game, and it felt like the Heat came out and, Whiteside aside, gave absolutely all they could. Their intensity kept the game tantalizingly close (and the crowd involved) but they still ended up losing by 20.

That’s understandable, and I would sympathize with that. However, when he calls himself one of the best centers in the NBA, goes out and puts up 5 and 2 against another true center and then blames other people afterwards, my sympathy goes away.

I’m not here to defend Whiteside, but John Cena has won 16 World Championships and even he has a hard time staying engaged.

Yeah, Night Man sucks. Everyone knows that Day Man is champion of the Night Man.

Must’ve worked, Whiteside only had 5 points.
Why oh why do the Heat keep falling for players on a contract year?!?!

Wakanda Forever.

It makes him Leonardo DiCaprio, circa 1998.

I think it’s JOEL EMBIID.

Joel Embiid as Mankind, which I think would make him more of a chaotic neutral than hero/villain?