( ( ( ( ( nba bubble ball 2020 ) ) ) ) )

trust da process baby!

Joel Embiid won’t return to game vs. Blazers with left ankle injury, per Sixers.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 9, 2020

Bring back Hinkie.

yeah they really need to nuke the front office and also the roster this just does not seem salvageable just so much wasted talent

Hinkie would just do the same shit

Maybe Hinkie would have fired Brett Brown by now but I doubt it

hinkine drafted 3 centers lol

theyve got 4 monster contracts on the books for minimum 3 years. theyre all guys in their prime except horford which i'd expect makes him the hardest to trade.

its weird bc i cant imagine trading either simmons or embiid but...you kinda have to trade one of them, right? unless simmons turns into dirk over the summer.

i know embiid is probably better, but i feel like i'd keep simmons. horford back to the 5, tobias harris at the 4, richardson and the best player you get back in the package for embiid seems like itd be good? idk i thought this sixers lineup was gonna be good so dont mind me.

yeah, i think at this point you have to figure out how to get some perimeter talent onto the team. i'd probably start more with "who can i get" rather than "who should i trade" since simmons and embiid are both pretty flawed players in different ways.

yeah, gotta feel like portland can swing a CJ trade, esp if they think gary trent jr is a legit starter level player

I think Portland maxxed cj. if not full max, they came damn close. so this would be tricky to pull off unless some GM is deeply in love with McCollum and has assets Portland likes.

philly has to see what they can do with cj it's the law

there are plenty of cj to sixers trades that work. the problem is more that portland's best lineups are all 4 out with nurk and there's nobody they can take back from the sixers that advances that cause.

a third team would be ideal

the one person whose opinion should matter most in assessing any cj trade for one or more sixer players would be coach stotts. he won't ever say a word in public, but he's the only one I'd like to hear from.

embiid is clearly amazing and a dominant force to the eye and in the box score and yet i really have my doubts that a team is winning an nba title these days with a $30 million center who isn't, like, anthony davis

if they had kept butler they still may have made the finals tho

https://tradenba.com/trades/6TpEXaeFb

ive done it

sixers get:
cj, marcus smaht

portland gets:
hayward

celtics get:
embiid, richardson

embiid is clearly amazing and a dominant force to the eye and in the box score and yet i really have my doubts that a team is winning an nba title these days with a $30 million center who isn't, like, anthony davis

― J0rdan S., Sunday, August 9, 2020 10:47 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is it.

i've got a trade idea for the sixers jimmy butler for josh richardson

hahaha waiiiiit a minute

https://tradenba.com/trades/6TpEXaeFb

ive done it

sixers get:
cj, marcus smaht

portland gets:
hayward

celtics get:
embiid, richardson

― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Sunday, August 9, 2020 11:51 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol i'm all set and i'm dying to get hayward off this team

i'm also not sure an nba team is winning a title with anthony davis tbh

snap

portland gets:
hayward

idk about this unless you're a team wanting to move $35 mil off your books or need to add exactly one piece to compete for one year and that piece is somehow, improbably, gordon hayward

you might be right!

the thing that never connected for me is that everyone agreed that the NBA is a wing league and in order to win titles you need wings and then the sixers went and dumped their best wing for a second center and everyone incl ppl like zach lowe who i respect were like "well i just don't know how this assemblage of talent *DOESN'T* make the finals" ... like was i listening to deep fake podcasts the last 5 years what's going on

(xp to cad)

there was a lot of belief that josh richardson was like >80% of jimmy butler which did not turn out to be true

when those transactions happened my thinking was that the sixers were becoming an extremely high-variance team and i think that's basically held up

also ppl thought butler was washed but he was def one of the 5 best players in the east this year

his outside shot drying up may be an issue in the playoffs

portland gets:
hayward

idk about this unless you're a team wanting to move $35 mil off your books or need to add exactly one piece to compete for one year and that piece is somehow, improbably, gordon hayward

― Clay, Sunday, August 9, 2020 11:02 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

portland should absolutely get cj's contract off the books and take 1 year to see if hayward fits.

his outside shot drying up may be an issue in the playoffs

― micah, Monday, August 10, 2020 12:17 AM (four minutes ago)bookmarkflaglink

it's true... it was actually incredible for him that he ended up in a system like miami's where his shooting doesn't really matter right when his outside shot abandoned him. this year jimmy w/ embiid and simmons kinda hurts the brain to think about offensively but still may have been able to make the finals. then again all three are hurt right now lmao another huge problem w/ the philly plan

if i were an all-nba player i would simply not get injured

im a hinkie truther now

Wth Austin rivers dropped 41 pts

there's only one person I've seen make passes like that and it's Lebron

Since many people are enamored with Luka’s between the legs pass to KP, here’s 2 mins of Harden doing the same! pic.twitter.com/lIfjTmvn3W

— Adam Abramson (@Adam_Abramson1) August 9, 2020

Hinkie wouldn't have traded up for Fultz.

He wouldn't have traded for Harris and then nearly maxed him.

He wouldn't have signed Horford to play at the 4.

I'm still laughing at the Sixers thinking Milton was going to go from G-Leaguer to running the point on a championship team while continuing to shoot 55% from 3.

Thank god for the Flyers so I don't have to focus on this train wreck.

hinkie wouldve traded embiid for 7 draft picks
he wouldve called it the process 2
he wouldve assembled an epic powerpoint about it

lol

Hinkie always just reloaded picks and drafted chalk, there was no mastery there. And some of the guys he picked sucked!

Picking Okafor was just dumb

yeah he was bad

his big innovation was to loudly declare that he was rebuilding instead of half deny it, but he got fired anyway

lol where were youre trapped in the bubble

Deandre Ayton misses coronavirus test, arrives late to underway Suns-Thunder game https://t.co/XhW1B7wdVq

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) August 10, 2020

and theyre down 15 to the depleted thunder... ayton may not live this one down. suns need to win out and this shoulda been an easy win.

hes in now starting the 2nd q

Giannis missing this game with a toothache seems pretty fucking sketchy

jimmy butler and tj warren facing each other tonight for the first time since warren told jimmy to meet him outside the locker rooms