LOL, you haven’t offered one piece of basketball analysis. All you’ve said is that while you don’t watch Wiggins, nor can speak on what he’s like now as a player, would ‘most definitely be an upgrade’. You’re a hot take artist. Simple as that. Ba-bye.

Again, to you it’s a sound idea to waste LeBron’s prime. Even if Wiggins ends up being better than Love (questionable at this point), the entire point is MAXIMIZING one of the greatest players of all time last 2 or 3 prime years.

Nope, to quote you, “I don’t live anywhere near Minnesota, so there aren’t many chances to see Wiggins play. Maybe you’re right, but he’d be a massive upgrade over Love, and he’s still only 21.”

No, any argument that argues something (such as ‘player x over player y’), with the caveat of “granted I don’t watch player x ever...” is, almost by definition, a hot take.

I don’t hate him. Right now he’s an average 3 in the NBA (look at his PER). What I hate is dumb hot takes from people who admit they don’t watch him play. So the Cavs—who have the best 3 to ever play the game, should keep a below average one over a PF who is super rare (people who think 18/10 with 38%+ from 3 grows on…

As for Waiters play this playoffs. Yes, looks like he might be finally finding his nitch. That the Cavs got Smith and Shumpert for him, says all you need to know... Waiters playoffs haven’t been near what Smith’s have been... and Smith is cheaper!!

He’s not a massive upgrade over Love. Honestly at this moment, JR and Shumpert give you everything (and more) than Wiggins does.

You guys need to actually watch Wiggins play. He’s a bad defender. He’s a taller, skinner Dion Waiters... who sucked and had no role on the Cavs.

I have a theory that if was all call a goatee by its proper name that everyone that has it will feel enough shame to remove it. So, from this point forward call a goatee what it is: a prison pussy.

Sure, it’s just a weird thing to point out on deadspin. Like one hot take artist objecting to another hot take artists hot take.

No, not bingo, especially if you understand the cap. Irving, LeBron, Wiggins puts them at a position where they can’t get a max guy, AND that summer there wasn’t a realistic option they could have gotten. Love was the biggest get, and they got it.

The Cavs don’t use him as a playmaker, and never really have (that’s why his assist numbers are always low (he actually passed more than anyone last night if you look at the numbers). The forced narrative on him that he should be a real playmaking PG is total media creation, of which Deadspin is regurgitating here.

I think he’s a lot better (and will be way better) than World ever was. He can do a lot more on the court in different way. I always expected Irving’s breakout to be next year, and I assume this post will look foolish then. Irving’s great, and he hasn’t looked the player he did end of last year (where he was pretty…

It’s more likely that Thibs plays him 45 minutes a night, night in and night out and breaks him.

my bad, was responding more to the conversation not you entirely.

God, all these pieces today about this, with the counter arguments about Draymond’s nut kicks being written off because they happened week(s) ago.

huh? Now, in English

So you’re getting hard with a bunch of strangers to assert that AI2 is better than Delly? Cool, what’s next ‘water is wet’.

I’ll reassess my life after you do your. You’re getting hard on the internet.

Yeah, he ‘held’ LeBron to 36/13/9. He got the MVP by default as for some reason they didn’t want to give it to someone on the losing team.