It is the years 2018-19 in the National Basketball Association (NBA) - The Regular Season

this seals fultzs fate, out of the league within 3 years

trying to think of a more blatantly combustable big 3 and drawing a blank

Jimmy Butler and the Sixers fully expect to reach a deal on a long-term contract this summer, league sources tell ESPN. Sixers made deal with plans to add Butler to a Big Three with Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 10, 2018

I think it works. Those guys all work hard and seem to care about winning

today's slate of games is....really bad

10 games of team i'm okay with vs. team i do not wish to look at

simmons is a sulking loner whos useless w/o the ball in his hands, embiid is a goofball who just does whatever he feels like out there, and jimmy is a ball domineering boss from hell, seems pretty dicey/not a perfect basketball fit

That’s pretty reductive. Embiid has been so good this year, and legit cares about defense as compared to Karl Anthony Bennet. 76ers lost some depth tho.

joel is def tearing it up but hes also still shooting 4 3s a game at 30%

simmons is obvs the much bigger concern tho

simmons is a sulking loner whos useless w/o the ball in his hands, embiid is a goofball who just does whatever he feels like out there, and jimmy is a ball domineering boss from hell, seems pretty dicey/not a perfect basketball fit

C'mon Cider. Clippers v Bucks is gonna be competitive I bet, as will Grizz-76ers with Big Bob Cov and Saric missing. Also you can enjoy watching the Wizards continue to implode and Hassan Whiteside is balling out atm. Hoping Houston continue poor form v Spurs but I reckon they will have a big performances between Harden and CP3 tonight. Kings Lakers will be a fun fast, fast paced game.

Sure I would miss Bulls-Cavs and Pistons-Hornets - don't blame ya there.

i understand why philly is doing this but it’s a pretty shaky fit.

jimmys a real good basketball player but the sixers arent seeming less like a fantasy team after this

i mean i wldve def done this deal if i were them, but also i was already highly skeptical of their core

i don't think it pushes them above their existing status of 4th best east team

idk ill be curious to see i think there is some potential there i mean jimmy can really play and the guys they gave up were nothing special, obvs the fit and personalities are kinda weird and incorporating a star mid season is hard, wld also really not be surprised if the whole thing crashed and burned also, the biggest question for me is what is simmons going to do while jimmys dribbling

yeah this makes simmons seem like the odd man out, and fultz seem like the man that was never even in.

fultz was already in trouble really just looking like not an nba player

jimmy/simmons/embiid is really rough for spacing purposes.

they shd......... trade ben

cause joel-jimmy cld actually be pretty cool

in retrospect, it seems crazy that so many 'experts' rated fultz so highly before the draft

give them a break, they just didn't notice he couldn't play basketball is all

yeah a team with joel/jimmy and some spacers/defenders could be a tank.

Their 2 biggest issues are horrible spacing/lack of shooting and being dogshit when Embiid isn’t on the floor.

Jimmy doesn’t directly address either of those issues and they just lost 2 shooters. but they do finally have a valid pnr option to go to which should help Embiid somewhat.

I think either they steamroll teams with their best lineups or Simmons and Fultzs’ issues become overexposed and they regress.

No one can predict the yips xps

Funnily enough I think the most significant potential blowing up point rests with how jimmy deals with the fultz situation. Everyone in philly seems rabidly protective of Fultz and if he dares to pontificate on his mentality the way he did Wiggins and KAT I don’t think he ever recovers from his heel turn

Their 2 biggest issues are horrible spacing/lack of shooting and being dogshit when Embiid isn’t on the floor.

Jimmy doesn’t directly address either of those issues and they just lost 2 shooters. but they do finally have a valid pnr option to go to which should help Embiid somewhat.

― tsrobodo, Saturday, November 10, 2018 1:58 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk jimmy shd help them with the non joel lineups

seems like it wldve been better to put fultz in that trade tbqh, prob philly just wasnt ready

If they could have traded Fultz and Saric for Jimmy they should have done it 100%

Reddick-Butler-Covington-Simmons-Embiid would be stifling on defence with plenty of spacing to boot

if they put fultz in there maybe they dont even have to include saric

phillys ownership has got to be just trash, they hired that wall st process guy who didnt know anything about basketball and years after firing him their young players are still developing weird

A hinkie apologist would argue that as long as embiid pans out he’s vindicated and fultz was a colangelo pick which essentially boils down to a league office imposition

minn might not have been interested in a pg who could generously be described as “developmental”

I want a peek into that alternate universe where Hinkie is still sixers GM

yeah but they could have also had other guys besides noel who they had to give up on before they were ready to compete because it was such a long rebuild and okafor who just wasn't a great player

76ers now have two top 12-15 players and three in the top ~25. All three play defense. They’re going to be really good. They will need to bring on some more shooting of course. Landry Shamet will probably get a lot of burn.

simmons is a curio imho

team generally is a paper tiger

I guess we got Bayless too?
Don't know anything about him

How have the Bulls been? Now you have to compare this to what we let go for Butler

Now you have to tear it all down again, Thibs/Layden have to go, get in hopefully a coach with modern sensibilities, try to see if KAT and Wiggins can be reengaged...

Such a fuckin mess

Feel like Saric and Convington obv aren't stars but good players to have on a team, though you guys would know more

Hey let's bring back Rambis, dust off the triangle, what a shitshow

Covington was first team all defence last season. When he's in the zone, he can lock down the best player on the other team and can hit down the 3 at a good rate. If he works on his consistency I think he could be great value on the current contract.

Saric is also good but has been regressing this season. Hopefully picks up.

Bayless is basically salary filler and I reckon he shouldn't get any minutes under Thibs.

But yeah, get a new coach already so this isn't all wasted

bayless is likely to be cut/waived

Stephen A is excited

Ohhhhh yeaaaaaaaahhhhhh. @JimmyButler to Philly!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/VHgNtLl73J

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) November 10, 2018

sga playing with poise

again with the 3 initials thing? who is sga?

Some guy, aimless

def not anyone as well known as fdr, jfk, or lbj.

This initials thing is doa

love to type shane gilgeous-alexander every time i want to talk about shane gilgeous-alexander

this imo