This seems like your fifth or sixth over-the-top take on the ‘Process’, a subject which seems to vie with Bill Simmons here at Deadspin when it comes to eliciting maximum vitriol from the site’s writers. I’m no Philly fan, but most of their fans are thrilled about landing Fultz and the team’s future. You can’t say the…

Yea, to a point, but ATL’s key players (outside George) are a 32 year old Millsap and a rapidly aging Dwight Howard, and an inconsistent D Schroder...not hard to envision a scenario where, if those picks are unprotected, one or two end up in the middle of the lottery. In a case where your trade target’s value is…

Yea, I feel like maybe the tenth or eleventh pick in the draft and maybe a rotation piece is the best you can hope for at this point. Larry Bird’s stubborness at the trade deadline seems like it could add a year or two to the Pacers’ rebuild. I’m curious about the Love/George swap, but my gut feeling is it doesn’t…

Yeah, but how is the near term materially affected by having the first pick vs the third? Ainge obviously sees it as valuable, perhaps because he genuinely prefers Josh Jackson or another prospect, or perhaps to acquire additional trade chips. There’s no point in evaluating every trade in terms of whether it puts you…

Whether you draft Fultz or Jackson isn’t making a difference this year anyway-that’s the point of my comment. A rookie simply isn’t making an enormous difference in year one regardless, so they stockpiled assets probably to flip for a star, or maybe just to draft. But either way, the original comment doesn’t make much…

Haven’t the Celtics already won? No. 1 seed, making the ECF, entering this summer with max cap space and a top draft pick still. I’d have preferred the Celts to get a better return, but the fatalism about this trade for the C’s is baffling. It sure feels like the whole point is for this team to have sustained success…

This comment would make more sense if the Celtics hadn’t just reached the ECF and weren’t about to make improvements to the roster this summer.

Then why does he have good on/off numbers?

According to Simmons, it would be the second time-first being the 2010 playoffs. Obviously I’m kidding; LeBron sure seemed off tonight but I suspect he just didn’t have much motivation coming off the blowout wins.

Yeah, I’ve heard somewhere you need at least .3 to score, period, even if the play is a lob. .2 seconds or less and it’s impossible to get even a tip-in off in time

Yeah, they were 17 point underdogs, which must be one of the biggest lines in playoff history.

Is it still funny? Of course the Celtics had a 15 percent chance. lol

It’s almost as if every time people overreact to bad losses, the next game is different.

You sure they’re warm-ups, playboy?

Most of what I’ve read suggests that a sizable portion of the FBI supports (or at least supported) Trump; but I’m really not sure that’s the case with Comey. If what you’re alleging is accurate, and the FBI was actively seeking to ensure a Trump win, then the FBI would have found some absurd way to charge Hillary over…

I’ve suddenly grown convinced there’s a legit trade to be made for that #3 pick, involving IT and maybe future non BKN picks-the PHI front office is tired of losing, IT’s 3 point shooting would relieve a ton of pressure from Ben Simmons, and they have Embiid to clean up IT’s defensive lapses. And more importantly, I…

I’m a Boston fan as well. But reading between the lines, I don’t think Danny Ainge has any interest in becoming the 2008-2015 Atlanta Hawks. There’s a reason he shopped every player on the roster at last year’s draft; and even after IT’s massive improvement this season, I think trading him is still feasible. We might…

Lol, Smart, Crowder, Bradley, and Horford are probably better on defense than every player on the Cavs not named Lebron-they’re not “average”. And the C’s don’t have horrible offensive players either: Horford and Crowder are very good, AB is fine, Olynyk is a useful scoring big off the bench. And two games aren’t a…

I mean, he made 2nd team all NBA. I’d imagine almost every pick from #5 or 6 and worse is in play for a player like that, obviously depending on the needs of the franchise. Hell, if Philly stays mostly healthy and trades #3 for IT and maybe a lesser pick, that team would win at least 40-45 games (a huge “if” on the…

Well, they said he specifically has a bad hip injury, which definitely makes sense given how odd his gait looked in the closing minutes of the first half, before they pulled him. And yea, even if he was healthy BOS’ odds of taking the series were less than fifteen percent, but that sort of injury to a team’s best…