I feel like the “called to testify” thing is yet another thing he and his ilk laugh and ignore. (Literally)

Oakley, not even close.

You are talking about people who consider memes from Facebook as facts. 

If you have a non-center leading the league in scoring, and your name isn’t Jordan, you ain’t winning the title.  

The Sixers example is actually a little misleading as I was going to use them as another example of how to stop the Giannis-or-Bust offense.

What exactly is your standard to be defined as smart and well-run? It can’t be one Conference Championship series, or is it?

Except this is what you said and my whole point from post one was it’s just not true. Than I gave examples, like the Bucks tanked to try and get Andrew Wiggins and than passed on Joel Embiid at 2. They hit the tanking and not smart or well-run trifecta.

You are right I obviously muffed it and should have used Thon or someone else. My bad. The point was the Bucks aren’t good at the draft and weren’t for 20 years. They made a good trade for Tobias, didn’t know what to do with him and traded him for JJ. Than they didn’t know what to do with him either.

So in a decade of picks they drafted and developed Giannis (complete 100 percent lottery ticket that lucked out) and a guy who was literally Rookie of the Year (i.e. already pretty skilled when he got off the plane)?

But your contention conveniently ignores that the Bucks and Warriors a) were horrible franchises, for extended periods, and happened to suddenly turn on their development skills with just those two players and b) both teams OPENLY tanked this decade while those players were on the team.

In my first sentence of this discussion I said “and I’m not endorsing what the Sixers did.” I also said “I don’t like it any more than you” but your options in today’s NBA are mortgage everything in a trade for a generational talent that might not stay or get lucky in the draft on a generational talent. That’s it. I…

$26 million a year that turns onto $22 million at the end and I get 2 or 3 MVP seasons and the protection that affords the hitters in front of and behind him? Sign me up.

That’s not your argument, your argument is the development by NBA teams of their talents. Curry made himself the shooter he is, not the Warriors. He came in and averaged 17, 5 and 4. Volume was all he needed to increase his point total because he already showed in college he could shoot from distance. He came into the…

To be honest I know both their stories very well. It’s not a chicken or egg thing, the players are the only thing that matter in the current NBA. Steph Curry was already in Golden State and they only hit on him after decades of losing and decades of missed lottery picks.

Exactly, now you are getting it.

Unless you want to win a title.

The “Process” started with the 2014 season. So your actual picks were

Everyone else would.

Fair enough, but that isn’t how the current system is set up. I used Portland as an example despite the time frame because they were ahead of curve, blew up the jail blazers and went into the season knowing they weren’t going to field a competitive team.

Here is the problem with this take, and I’m not endorsing what the Sixers did, simply pointing out that they were in no minority in doing so: