This is smart. The Sixers need to shoot their shot. I don’t care how he looks now, big guys with the injury history Embiid has typically don’t play 15 years. Load up and push in your chips before he hurts himself again and you’re wondering how you went from what he is now to Yao Ming 2.0 and forever regret not moving…

If the Celtics resign Kyrie, I bet Boston gets added to that list.

AD may not have been considered Duncan but I heard the phrasing of “best prospect since LeBron or KD/Oden” thrown around enough to know he was considered a once every 5 or so years kinda talent anyway.  They may not have tanked but everyone knew this dude was going to be a monster.

Pats fan here (I know, I know) and even we were bored to tears with the game.  There can be good, entertaining defensive battles but this wasn’t that.  Tip of the cap to Bill’s gameplan but that game was a dumpster fire as an entertainment product.

Every one of them has taken a significant step back in role size too so that makes sense.

There was a story they were using “football guys” on the team and that’s a very different type of fitness and workout regimine so actually, ya, you can do that.

This take is bad. Yes, the top 3-6 destinations will get every great player. Yes they will structure things accordingly. Yes, smaller markets will have to wildly overpay for anyone, including rookies, thus increasing their degree of difficulty.

Bring back Christian Bale but in his Dick Cheney fitness routine

1. Russell is a on a prototypical contract year boon as a prototypical numbers on a bad team run in a prototypical bad team winning streak where they just beat other bad teams.

Zion is over rated. He’ll be really good but I’m taking RJ Barrett over him all day. That dude is a true #1. I see Zion as potentially a better Draymond but there’s really scary bust potential there too. I worry how his game will translate against the biggest, strongest athletes.  I’d still take him 2 but I am in love…

That Last Airbender line legit has me ready to run through a wall. That’s incredible.

They are not.  Their fans openly - and gloriously - vandalized murals of LeBron in LA because “durrrr Kobe”

Is AD finally good enough so LeBron’s not “doing it alone” even though he’s had superduperstar #2s and another all star and even more solid rotation guys all decade save the last year and a half

I’d go the opposite way and be petty. He’s playing 40 mpg with nothing but scrubs. He’s sabotaging his own return and wants to stay within the conference with a potential rival? Naaaaa. You’re going East.

It was supposed to be Kyrie Irving but he ran him out of town then couldn’t wait on IT to come back more than 2 seconds without complaining.

To be fair - and this is barely worth delving into - Brady displayed it when Trump was in the B-squad interviews for a guy who he pals around with and who his wife knows and worked with from the fashion world/Miss USA (or whatever) connection. When he showed it, I don’t think anyone expected our current hellscape to…

We don’t actually get irrationally angry when the team doesn’t live up to expectations. We get irrationally angry when people try to make stupid claims like Peyton was better in spite of doing less with as much or more talent or act like teams racked with injuries somehow underachieved by “only” making it to the AFC…

My buddy wore a Yankees hat to Fenway back in 2000 at the height of the self-hatred in Boston and someone in the row behind us took it off his head and set it on fire in front of him. We were 16.

The Celtics just need to log a call to New Orleans now and gauge their interest with the caveat that they can’t make a deal til after the July 1 league year resets. They also need to be willing to put it all on the table. There is no (reasonable) offer that beats the major pieces being Tatum, Jaylen Brown, the Kings…

Because after the 4th, 5th, and 6th guys dropped out “due to injury”...