What about Robert Covington, who went from D-Leaguer to one of the best 3-and-D wings in the league? Or TJ McConnell, who went from undrafted to useful rotation player? I mean, jeez, even MCW appeared to flourish in Philadelphia before turning into a rotten pumpkin after he got traded.

This is hilarious, because Okafor definitely does not fit on a team that runs around like crazy, shares the ball, and bombs away on the outside. I totally get what they’re doing — why not take a super-cheap flier on a recent former lottery pick and see if a change of scenery and coaching helps? — but I do not expect…

This is dumb as hell. The Process Sixers were specifically designed so that any young player could eat as many minutes as he could get his hands on. Michael Carter effing Williams won a RoY with that squad, for god’s sake, and nobody has seen him in years. Undrafted guys like TJ McConnell and Robert Covington have…

In what world are the Sixers getting a 2017 first rounder for Bogut, when they couldn’t even get one for Noel? When DeMarcus Cousins couldn’t even pull a high draft pick?

In what way are they cleaning up after Hinkie? The Sixers were actually at their best this season when Noel and Embiid were both playing, and Okafor…

And not for nothing, but that’s Oliver Ekman-Larsson, an excellent defenseman, that he turnstiles in the neutral zone.

Honestly, the crazy thing about Okafor maybe being Hinkie’s biggest mistake is that drafting Okafor was the ONE time Hinkie seemed to go for the high-floor, mostly safe player instead of the question mark with huge upside (Kristaps Porzingis). I can’t even imagine how much fun it would be to watch a pair of…

Well, I guess if your argument is more broadly against debates, because candidates rarely communicate anything meaningful, then I get that. But that’s basically true of campaigns in general, right? No candidate wants to say anything unpopular. Ultimately, you have to ask candidates the right questions enough times,…

This sounds shortsighted, and a little childish. “Yes, this issue is important — perhaps critically so. But, it’s too technical and people don’t care about it, so what’s the point in talking about it?” Or, “Well, they’re never going to do anything about it anyway, so we shouldn’t even bother talking about it until…

Weird. It’s almost like, if he hadn’t made a big deal out of it, it wouldn’t have been a big deal.

Loved the sneaky, gratuitous shot at Simmons’s “old employer.” Do you think it’s written into the “edginess” clause of his contract with HBO that Simmons needs to subtly slam ESPN at least once per show?

I assume you are the asshole who screamed, “Caps suck!” during Ed Snider’s moment of silence. Glad it took all of four days for our fans to start dishonoring Snider’s memory by using him to justify idiotic behavior.

Your argument isn’t really that the The Process is flawed, it’s that Hinkie is a poor steward for it. That’s an argument I’ve seen a lot of people make over the last few days, and it might be true, but it’s not the same as saying The Process doesn’t work.

At least you turned Johnson into Shattenkirk? Go Blues!

Yeah, that’s an interesting point. I actually follow the merry-go-round of NBA team-building with great interest, but I don’t actually really like watching basketball and have never been much of a Sixers fan. So I suppose it’s easy for me to root for The Process — I can just keep on never actually watching Sixers…

Isn’t the fact that championships have historically been distributed among a very few franchises with transcendent players (Jordan, Hakeem, Duncan, Magic, Kareem, Magic, et al) an argument in favor of it not being worth trying to contend until you have a player that you think could reasonably turn into someone like…

That’s a great point. It makes you wonder why more teams don’t aim to build contenders primarily with low lottery picks.

Wait a sec. I don’t follow soccer, so bear with my ignorance for a second. I feel like a few days ago, I was reading articles on Deadspin about how Leicester was comfortably in the driver’s seat, unlikely to be caught at the top of the EPL without a lot of things going against them. Now, after losing to Arsenal, I’m…

Absolutely. The game doesn’t end when you draft the right guys. But you have to start with the talent. If you make smart free agent decisions, have the right coach, and foster a great culture, you end up with last year’s Atlanta Hawks: a fun team, a good team, but not a team with a realistic chance to win a title. You…

Well, sure. Really any team-building strategy requires luck. They’re all going to fail far more often than not. Either you’re trying to luck into the right draft picks, or you’re hoping that the right piece becomes available via trade at the right time and you’ve got the assets to put together the best deal, or you’re…

The Magic originally drafted Chris Webber first overall and traded him for Penny Hardaway and three first round picks (one of which, though they ended up flipping it again before the 1998 draft, turned into Vince Carter, actually). Hardaway was the third overall pick in Webber’s year. So whether they had drafted…