I’m tempted to go all conspiracy theory on you and bring up the fact that Silver and the rest of the owners probably forced him out, but I’ll leave that alone for now.

Assets are potential and they all do not pan out.

That he was too cheap to hire someone is an assumption you made, not a reason stated in the article. That he was too lazy to do it himself would be far more representative of this exchange. Nowhere in that discussion does either Sam OR Gonzo posit that 1) cheapness was his reason or 2) that made him a genius.

Sure, but that only matters if you actually invested money in the initial purchase. If you got all that shit for free, who cares if it’s $.30 on the dollar?

Also, the correct answer to the store robbing question is clearly a giant music store. As a musician of course I would keep most of the stuff for myself, but this is the correct answer even for non-musicians.

5) It’s a figure of speech, so that really is one tiny-ass quibble. I’m all for precision in language, but that’s just a hair over my pedantic limit.

Day drinking is just fine, but a special occasion helps. I enjoy wandering around the world with a buzz, and I like to think I function well enough that it’s not immediately obvious to passers-by.

No one is going to argue that Brett Brown turned these guys into world-beaters. I’m not saying TJ is an all-pro or that RoCo is the second coming of Pippen. But to claim that the Sixers have failed to garner value from the second half of the draft and UFAs is simply untrue.

I just can’t stomach this line of reasoning. All it really does is point out the inherent uncertainty in the process, which everyone already acknowledges. It’s not instructive. It doesn’t say anything we didn’t already know.

No, it is based on the evidence that Brett Brown’s staff is at least as competent as any other coaching staff in the league at developing players. That’s real.

Yes, you are correct about the development part. That is possible. But the track record of BB’s staff over these last four years says otherwise. To claim they haven’t found those diamonds in the rough suggests that you only read Burneko articles and don’t actually watch basketball.

It’s easy to pick an arbitrary endpoint and declare yourself right.

The heart of the process was the acknowledgement of uncertainty - of course JoJo could be more Oden than Hakeem, and of course Simmons could fail to live up to expectations, and of course Fultz might be the loser we saw at UW.

But ALL teams attempting…

It’s funny. It’s almost like they get paid to figure stuff like that out for you.

Agreed, the Preds need to be confident going into these last three games. They know the Pens aren’t winning Game 6 back in Nashville, so they need to take either 5 or 7 to finish it off.

Doesn’t Drew live in NY?

What strange company you keep.

Ah, Western PA mouth-breathers, how I have not missed thee. I took my degree and peaced out of that little enchanted Forest where no one in any shade of black or gold has ever done anything wrong.

He doesn’t have to turn into a goon to satisfy us. It’s not about fighting. It’s about finishing the shit you start. Don’t want to have to fight half the league? How about not goading the other guy into it so goddamn often.

I’ve heard of that habit referred to as a “Pittsburgh Left” here in PA. If the oncoming lane doesn’t have a protected green, the first person lets them go so they don’t get stuck. In crazy rush hour traffic that might make sense, but it happens even if there are only three cars in line that would hold the left-turner…

Great job, Terrell. I was having a much less comprehensive discussion about this very situation with a co-worker yesterday. I’ll be forwarding your story along to him.