48 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

 

Definitely not a pro Harden piece. 

I've never liked Durant. He always comes off as a massive D bag even before any of this. 

The Sixers had Jimmy Butler, a guy who loves to win AND apparently got along with Embiid. They let him walk out the door.

The team’s upside with Harden is great, but now you have to worry about the soap opera and the final years of the awful contract that’s coming.

15 minutes ago, Gannan said:

I've never liked Durant. He always comes off as a massive D bag even before any of this. 

I think he is a guy that loves basketball more anything and only cares about that. 

Is this the next move over the summer? Lillard is 31, though.

How many times is Ben gonna say "It is what it is"?

This mofu is the same.  Brooklyn fans are gonna lose their cool real quick with this cat. 

the national nba media loves ben for some reason. 

12 minutes ago, SB52 said:

Is this the next move over the summer? Lillard is 31, though.

Is only one ball. 

He said "It wasn't about the fans, the coaches or comments made by anybody..."  So what's left?  The equipment managers?  Beef with Franklin the Dog?  Security staff?  He makes no sense.  He was talking in circles.  Ugh, this guy. 

8 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

the national nba media loves ben for some reason. 

I’m guessing some of this goes back to Lebron as Simmons’ agent is rich Paul. the media doesn’t want to crap on simmons cause then they’d have to deal with issues with Lebron and they don’t like to do that or lose that access. 

28 minutes ago, SB52 said:

Is this the next move over the summer? Lillard is 31, though.

Umm… why? I mean shedding Harris contract is cool and all by why the F we giving up a 21 year old Maxey for a 32 year year old Lillard? If Maxey was off the table for Harden, you really think he’ll suddenly be available for Lillard?

8 minutes ago, nipples said:

Umm… why? I mean shedding Harris contract is cool and all by why the F we giving up a 21 year old Maxey for a 32 year year old Lillard? If Maxey was off the table for Harden, you really think he’ll suddenly be available for Lillard?

And two ball dominate guards. They should look for a slasher defender next. Ohhhh they had one in Bridges 

27 minutes ago, therealdawk said:

He said "It wasn't about the fans, the coaches or comments made by anybody..."  So what's left?  The equipment managers?  Beef with Franklin the Dog?  Security staff?  He makes no sense.  He was talking in circles.  Ugh, this guy. 

Its always been 100% about himself

should go over well in ny with durant lol

4 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

And two ball dominate guards. They should look for a slasher defender next. Ohhhh they had one in Bridges 

You might be the only person more bitter about Bridges than i am…

29 minutes ago, therealdawk said:

He said "It wasn't about the fans, the coaches or comments made by anybody..."  So what's left?  The equipment managers?  Beef with Franklin the Dog?  Security staff?  He makes no sense.  He was talking in circles.  Ugh, this guy. 

that's every ben interview ever.   i didn't expect him to come out and say anything interesting. he's all about image. 

35 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

the national nba media loves ben for some reason. 

Because they're morons and love the dramatic/social angle.  Which is the alleged "mental health" BS.  

25 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

I’m guessing some of this goes back to Lebron as Simmons’ agent is rich Paul. the media doesn’t want to crap on simmons cause then they’d have to deal with issues with Lebron and they don’t like to do that or lose that access. 

could be. 

it's something else though. guys on sxm saying that a few years from now, embiid will regret not choosing ben over morey/harden.   they don't even try to make sense. 

 

6 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Because they're morons and love the dramatic/social angle.  Which is the alleged "mental health" BS.  

 

6 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

could be. 

it's something else though. guys on sxm saying that a few years from now, embiid will regret not choosing ben over morey/harden.   they don't even try to make sense. 

 

It's a few things:

1. They don't want to get hit for being against a guy who played the mental health card. Anyone looking at the situation realizes it was a BS ploy by Simmons to try and keep getting paid, but national media guys aren't going to take on the potential backlash. It's simpler to play into pre-conceived notions of Philly fans.

2. They DESPERATELY want the Nets to be in the finals, because they want a NY team to finally be relevant again. Think about how many times we had to hear about big time free agents going to the Knicks (LeBron multiple times). NY/LA is always the dream, so they'll talk them up no matter what.

3. They all want to be contrarians and try to look smart. But when everyone is contrarian, then nobody is.

Am I the only one that wanted to throat punch Harris when he thanked Harden for picking them? JFC. 

[Neubeck] James Harden confirms that he did not opt in yet and still has the opportunity to do it, which he plans to do

21 minutes ago, Shepard Wong said:

Am I the only one that wanted to throat punch Harris when he thanked Harden for picking them? JFC. 

A complete dork.  A rich dork, but a dork none the less.  He can make anything uncool.  His pillow talk during sex is probably geeky as ish. 

32 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

You might be the only person more bitter about Bridges than i am…

Haha out of all the mistakes that was the biggest one. At some point the direction of a franchise has to go from potential, and upside to what the player does well and how do they fit into the system to contend. 

They did it again this year drafting Springer a freshman over Dosunmu, Jr from Illinois and now a vital role for Bulls or Herb Jones, Sr from Bama, another high minute guy for Pelican 

Heck Jones has a WAR of 3.5 for 56th in the league 

main thing i got out of this is that harden wanted to be traded to philly in the first place...not brooklyn.

 

 

1 hour ago, mr_hunt said:

could be. 

it's something else though. guys on sxm saying that a few years from now, embiid will regret not choosing ben over morey/harden.   they don't even try to make sense. 

 

The only way that would remotely ever happen is a Ben Simmons woke up one day and realized he needed to become better as a shooter and more consistent at the free throw line. Until that day comes where he has that epiphany that’s a bad take. Maybe just maybe he does later in his career at 31-32 but at that point it’s already the end of embiid’s career so does him no help. 

16 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

main thing i got out of this is that harden wanted to be traded to philly in the first place...not brooklyn.

 

 

There was that report before the trade happened and i believe one last year that he preferred the sixers over the nets. I don’t think he ever really had the nets as his preferred destination but he didn’t want to stay in Houston knowing they had no chance at a title and the nets were better than being in Houston. So it was the lesser of two evils that he went to the nets.