57 minutes ago, BKLYNYG said:

Does anyone even find that funny? The guy has been out the better part of 3 years and has the audacity to respond like that. How many entitled jerkoffs can you fit into one league. 
 

You guys picked up another one, but he can play. How will that chubby F work with Embiid? 

Hey fella.  Gold chains gabagol and all.  

Just now, HazletonEagle said:

next year could be the year to save Ingram from New Orleans.

I’d love if they got Ingram. Not sure it happens but I loved him coming out but understood why they couldn’t pass on Simmons at one. Was actually fine if they got no. 2 that year.  

 

 

1 minute ago, iladelphxx said:

 

 

He should be forced to see a psychiatrist for a month before returning. 

Wish we got more from the reporters about what else the 6ers may have been working on after the Harden trade.

Harden trade happened and everyone left work for the day it seems.

 

 

Hope that Ben Simmons story continues to get pub. Make him hated everywhere, even outside of Philly.

1 minute ago, iladelphxx said:

 

 

Honestly I didn’t like Ben Simmons before but this is the thing that made me absolutely hate and despise him was this. What he did and tried to pull and his agent try to pull is BS. It’s a slap in the face to every athlete who actually has mental health issues. If I was another athlete I would call him on that and tell him he’s an a-hole for doing it.

1 hour ago, DaEagles4Life said:

He for sure is shooting a 3 tomorrow. 

I hope Butler Tbags him. 

1 minute ago, iladelphxx said:

 

 

Yep. That's why I thought he would sit out longer, just for the sake of not effing up the mental health angle.

 I mean, we all knew he was faking it and being a sensitive bish, but now it's like he's putting any kind of mental health policy in the CBA at risk. Gonna be some sort of Ben Simmons clause in there in the future.  

The Sixers should sue him for fraud.

18 minutes ago, iladelphxx said:

 

 

He might be one of the biggest scumbags in Philadelphia sports history and that's really saying something.

6 minutes ago, The_Omega said:

The Sixers should sue him for fraud.

I’d try to go breach of contract knowing he was falsely using mental health as the reason.  

1 hour ago, jsdarkstar said:

The interviewer had to ask, but he didn't have to have that response to KD's answer as well. Condescending as hell and laughed at him too. Just sayin. 

I actually liked the response, so did LeBron and you can see him laughing on the other side.

God i love kelce 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Hey fella.  Gold chains gabagol and all.  

Hey fugetaboutit, this trade sucks! 

1 hour ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Honestly I didn’t like Ben Simmons before but this is the thing that made me absolutely hate and despise him was this. What he did and tried to pull and his agent try to pull is BS. It’s a slap in the face to every athlete who actually has mental health issues. If I was another athlete I would call him on that and tell him he’s an a-hole for doing it.

As someone who deals with this, I really don't give a rats ass about other people faking it, not my problem.  Mental illness still carries a stigma and people are still ignorant about. They think we are still faking it even after mental breakdowns and even being medically declared to have said   illness. 

I've seen plenty of people question Lane Johnson as well. 

 

 

 

25 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

As someone who deals with this, I really don't give a rats ass about other people faking it, not my problem.  Mental illness still carries a stigma and people are still ignorant about. They think we are still faking it even after mental breakdowns and even being medically declared to have said   illness. 

I've seen plenty of people question Lane Johnson as well. 

 

Really to me it’s not even just about athletes. Probably should have not just mentioned athletes in that paragraph. it is people who have mental health issues and mental health crisis they’re going through and it’s actually something they have to deal with everyday. And this ass clown decided because he didn’t wanna play for Philadelphia anymore and still wanted to get paid that he would use it to his advantage. That to me is so insulting and infuriating to mental health issues to stoop that low and play that card. knowing damn well the only reason you’re doing it is because you want to get paid for sitting at home because you’re too scared and too much of a child to play a game of basketball where you signed a contract paying you 30+ mil. 

I mean do I have to like the flopper now or can I pretend it's someone else out there? 

1 hour ago, BKLYNYG said:

Hey fugetaboutit, this trade sucks! 

How ya been bud?

Well I guess this trade is what you do when the "process" doesn't work.

On another note, I know Seth Curry is not his brother Steph, however, I rather liked the kid. Sorry to see him go.

 

23 minutes ago, JohnB said:

Well I guess this trade is what you do when the "process" doesn't work.

On another note, I know Seth Curry is not his brother Steph, however, I rather liked the kid. Sorry to see him go.

 

Kid? He's 31.....🤣

The Process worked..... We went from being the worst team in the NBA to a perennial contender with an MVP caliber player. 

Hinkie's whole philosophy was to accumulate assets so you can either draft or trade for a superstar. 

We were able to do both 

Anyone remember this gem? 😆

In all seriousness though, it will be exciting to see Harden in a 76ers uniform.

From the athletic 

1. The Nets were in Cleveland Jan. 17. In their locker room before the game, Kyrie Irving lit ablaze some sage — a Native American ritual Irving has embraced to cleanse negative energy. Irving doesn’t do this before every game, but he apparently still feels haunted by parts of his past on the Cavs. So he lit his torch.

2. Harden, according to sources who were in the room when it happened, was seated in front of his locker, watching Irving, and looked at Kyrie like he had three heads.

3. "Definitely a weird vibe between them,” one source said. "You could tell Harden was annoyed, and Kyrie wasn’t feeling James.”

4. In two seasons, Harden has quit on two teams until they traded him. When he tries to explain this one, my guess is he will not come out and say, explicitly, that he wanted to be as far away from Kyrie as possible. But make no mistake, Irving had something to do with it.

5. Opening night — so, Oct. 19 — in Milwaukee, I asked Harden, point blank, if he was happy with the Nets. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely,” he said. I asked because the night before, the NBA’s deadline for contract extensions passed without Harden signing one to stay in Brooklyn past this season. "I love it here,” he said. "I feel at home. It’s nothing to worry about.” What changed?

6. The Nets were in first place on New Year’s Eve, in spite of a COVID-19 surge that ripped through the team. On Jan. 5, the day of Irving’s first game this season, Brooklyn was 1 ½ games behind the Bulls for first. The Nets, as a matter of fact, were in first in the East as recently as Jan. 22. They have not won since.

7. Yes, there are a number of factors that play into this current nine-game losing streak. One is Kevin Durant’s knee injury. Another is Harden, who has missed three straight games and five of the past seven with hamstring soreness — which first appeared after the Nets lost at home to the struggling Lakers, and Harden was on the court by himself because Durant was hurt and Irving won’t take the COVID vaccine.

8. The Nets were built with the idea that the Big 3 would carry them. Harden knew it. He’s seen Durant miss large amounts of time due to injury the past two seasons, and now Irving won’t take the same shot Harden took to be eligible to play home games. Durant and Irving have what Harden, 32, does not: a title.

9. Harden has said publicly he was frustrated the Nets weren’t playing better. He saw how much the Nets need Irving on the court, all the time, and did the math on how nuts that would be to play home playoff games without Irving, even though Irving isn’t hurt.

10. "I’mma give him the shot,” Harden once joked of Irving. Now that seems like less of a joke.

11. The Nets were 13-3 when Durant, Harden and Irving played in the same game, so this next argument is a little harder to make. But Harden’s ball-dominant, initiate-and-shoot style is not a great fit for Irving. Kyrie moved off of his point guard spot when the Nets traded for Harden last season. With Simmons, Irving can remain off the ball, but he knows the ball will come to him more often because Simmons won’t be pounding out the shot clock and looking for 3s.

12. Irving was ready for Harden to move on, too. When Irving heard Harden was in fact hoping to be traded, a well-placed source says he was eager to see it come to fruition.