Just what Gar Foreman needs, more opportunities to draft. Teague, Valentine, Snell, McDermott, Portis. Shit.

There is no chance in hell that contract is anywhere remotely in the neighborhood of badness that contains Joakim Noah’s contract.

I’m not sure why this is being treated with skepticism. If he wanted Fultz...he would have taken Fultz. He didn’t, so he traded down. What’s so hard to understand?

Well first of all, the Lakers young core of Randle, Russell, Ingram, Nance, and Clarkson would make a fine supporting cast for Paul George or whomever the Lakers go after. But they also showed signs of being a peripheral playoff team all on their own, winning games when everyone who could play was shut down for…

The problem with trying to land the next Steph Curry is that the Warriors didn’t even know they had this Steph Curry until after his rookie contract was up. The odds of any given number-one pick being a franchise player is pretty small, and plenty of guys who become franchise-quality players get drafted further down…

But is the plan to luck into a superstar an actual good plan?

I love that the Boston Celtics are basically neck and neck with Philadelphia in stockpiling assets, yet are able to compete in the playoffs and attract free agents.

Yeah, but Klay was a mid-first rounder too. They’re good at this stuff. Philly is not. All the actuarial draft hoarding doesn’t change that.

Find me an NBA big man that has missed the kind of time or suffered the kind of injuries that Joel Embiid has suffered and has become (or returned to) NBA-All-Star-caliber form or better. Ever. Embiid has played a combined 60-something games (combined college and pro) in the last four years.

I don’t know if we hit on late picks as much as we develop them. Draymond Green and Pat McCaw didn’t have to be great (Draymond) or good (McCaw.)

This isn’t a binary. There’s also the very real possibility that the Sixers can’t develop young guys. In fact, that’s why teams often have a few end of bench vets on the team, as de facto coaches, teaching guys nuance and the off-the-court stuff that guys like Okafor haven’t really excelled at.

I think this post was mostly about criticizing the Sixers fans who are declaring victory already. I think he had to criticize Hinkie (again) in the course of criticizing those fans, because it would have been incomplete had he not.

It’s also odd for these fans to think of trading away a future first round pick just to move up two spots as any sort of indication of The Process.

You don’t think that Hinkie choosing strategic losing and Hinkie sucking at drafting were related? Certainly seems like they were, what with so many picks made not towards any master plan of roster construction but primarily based on who wouldn’t be able to contribute to the team the next year and thus enable more…

Hell, man, every losing team can be feisty. These guys are all competitors. The point is that even the Lakers are closer to relevance than the Sixers. And they didn’t even have a clue, much less a Process.

Going into the fifth year, the team still sucks with no hope of stopping without abandoning the Process and signing a free agent stud, and you’re still defending Hinkie. Congratulations on your belief in chemtrails!

Except that, in the Thunder’s case, they built their core in three years and were in the Western Conference Finals in that third season and the finals the following year.

I like how the process is going to lead up to the 76ers only winning 30 games and counting that as a monumental victory. It’s like my favorite Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin gets a C on a test and his mom is over the moon. After she walks away, Hobbes asks why he doesn’t do that well more often and Calvin says he…

The Sixers won’t be contenders for a long time. Being a contender is way more than just having good players. I don’t know why Sixer fans always ignore the other stuff.

So ya’ll just taking tweets now?