Ingram is 19 years old, give him time. Giannis was averaging 10 pts per 36 min at age 19 too.

It kinda sounded like he was benched for sharing an unpopular opinion at first....but really his teammates decided to have him benched for saying he shared an unpopular opinion and didn’t even say what it was or what it was about? lol. his teammates must fucking hate him.

“Hot Dogs are sandwiches.”

Absolutely. I’d rather be the 76er’s than the Clippers, Blazers, Mavs, Heat, Magic... a whole lot of teams. They’re not in the bone zone, they just need to play their cards ride.

Noel actually makes sense to stay—back up center who can do PF minutes, a guy who doesn’t demand the ball, strong defensive presence who will run the floor. Hard to keep him now after they crapped all over him, though, but if they keep winning, it’s easier for everybody to stay happy. If they ditch him and Okafor,…

also, if you pro-rated those stats over three years, they are kind of an ordinary rookie year

Noel is a decent performer for where he was picked. Truth is, you can’t just expect to get lottery picks right. You also have to have some luck with later picks who seriously overachive, like Draymond Nutkicker or Kawhi or Giannis.

Wasn’t expecting Deadspin to do such a turn on the Sixers that fast!

let’s develop embiid and noel while they’re rehabbing knee and foot injuries! makes sense!

You’re wrong. There were many people saying the team should have gone the route of any of those players because they would take the floor immediately, and more naysayers in the years following setbacks and overseas treatments, when people grew impatient about the healing process or whether he would ever take the…

Never. They’ll just make excuses or deflect responsibility to Coangelo or Brett Brown or just plain luck. These players and draft picks all just materialized out of thin air.

They could have taken Exum, Randle, Gordon, Smart—any number of guys who could have played immediately and who (Minus Exum) are contributing to NBA teams. Or they could have traded back to pick up more middling talents rather than accept the risks inherent to taking Embiid. So yes, it was a strategy to bank on a…

People have been killing the Sixers (and Hinkie) for years, but look at where they’re at now. Without context, a 13-26 record rolling toward a 25-win season looks bad, but this feels like such a massive step forward.

Don’t worry about Hinkie. Two things have happened to ensure he will get credit. The first is there is no way Sixers fans will ever let the national or local media forget they were wrong. The second is Embiid naming himself “The Process”. He took the term that was used to make fun of Hinkie, the Sixers, and anyone…

Good think for them they might have two top-ten picks in this draft which is heavy on the exact positions they are weak in.

There are so many things wrong with this post, I don’t have the time to correct all of them...

You do know there are more games to be played, right? That 13 wins by January is a massive improvement over the past seasons?

Hinkie: “Let’s sit on a potential superstar, taking a massive risk that he can overcome an injury that other teams were scared off by, and deal with the pains of losing for the promise he brings.”

clearly, hinkie was not right. i mean there’s simmons, saric, the lakers pick this year, and the right to swap picks with the kings this year. terrible circumstances to be in.

It’s really a shame the Sixers didn’t keep Evan Turner, Spencer Hawes and Andre Iguodala and keep making runs at the 7 seed, though.