As for Embiid specifically, to use a poker term, they are pot committed. You never want to find yourself pot committed in poker.

That gets at the heart of my criticism of the Process, that they dicked around too long. Ideally you’d want a few years to figure out these things on the court. Instead Embiid has already signed a massive deal, Simmons is up next, and as good as he is he needs to find an outside shot. This requires time but the Sixers…

I myself call it the Jesse Barfield Rule. No player in my memory was better at making sliding last second catches in short right than Barfield. The announcers would RAVE about them. Problem was, those catches weren’t really all that shallow. I’d guess 20 rightfielders in his time would make them effortlessly without…

I have no problem with what you say at all except that no one asked him or expected him to make Richardson the focal point of his little speech. That was entirely of Rivera’s choosing. I am a big fan of his btw, I love how he has evolved as a coach, not just the Riverboat Ron either. The way he has allowed his…

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Did your friend’s mother have several reputable people publicly accuse her of using drugs, resulting in authorities opening an investigation, upon which your friend’s mother publicly stated she was entering rehab to deal with her problem? Then did you still refuse to form an opinion because it was more convenient to…

I will agree with you that the left has it’s own bubbles and that some degree of cognitive dissonance occurs there.

“What I’ve always said is I know nothing about that. I can only speak for what he has been to me and the players,”

To be honest, I find myself to be totally patient when dealing with old fashioned people to people transactions, be it bartenders, repairmen, in line at the grocery. I find myself far more impatient and annoyed with automated transactions, such as on the phone, or at say a kiosk at the airport. I think it stems from…

I used to be the impatient and angry type, but using these tips I’ve become so much more at peace with the world. In fact I’m sitting here in my car in line at Starbucks thinking about how angry I used to be and I can only smile. Even the car in front of me that can CLEARLY move forward and place their order doesn’t…

Clean indeed. All ball!

He’s becoming the ARod of the NBA. Even those that like him don’t really.

Jesus KD, you just got away with it and you know it, yet you still put on a show, clapping like a dipshit just like you did as you ran and hid from Westbrook earlier this year.

One of the things that drives me nuts about being in the bar business is how many shot glasses we go through. People steal them and smuggle them out left and right. Expensive as hell.

Now we know why Cable Rob Lowe always looked out of sorts.

As for the 101 crack, that was in response to the previous commenter stating equal protection has nothing to do with wealth/resources. Which the case cited clearly does establish.

I had a truther declaring they had two top 10 players when they were 12-9. Mind you, I love both Embiid and Simmons, but it got a bit silly.

Being a rookie in the NBA is about adjustments. The league adjusts to you, you adjust back. When you can’t shoot, at all, it’s gonna be tough. That said, he’ll be fine in the long run, let’s just cool all this talk of him being a top 20 player just yet.

There are 500 coaches out there who could have won as many Super Bowls as McCarthy. There are 50 who could have won more. He is and always has been terrible. Thompson is a mixed bag. He deserves credit for what the team has accomplished, no question. But the skill set required to maintain a championship team isn’t the…

It drives me crazy when I constantly read praise for Green Bay that “they don’t do free agency, they build through the draft.” I mean fine, don’t be Daniel Snyder, but you have an all time QB on the back end of his prime yet you’ve had massive holes on your teams for years now. Maybe a little urgency? Thompson and…