Trade Deadline Rumors
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The Heat have traded Norris Cole to New Orleans for John Salmons, league source says.
JOHN SALMON LIVES!!!!
seriously. i understand their strategy, but at some point, it absolutely must pay off, particularly when you consider how unforgiving philly fans can be. i mean, philly just dumped one of their promising young recent draft picks for the promise of more draft picks!!
man... i wonder how many scouts the sixers are employing to parse draft boards into the supermassive black hole of their future in the lottery. they better have some next-level nostradamus-type dudes on staff...
man... i wonder how many scouts the sixers are employing to parse draft boards into the supermassive black hole of their future in the lottery. they better have some next-level nostradamus-type dudes on staff...
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA 1m1 minute ago
As part of deal, New Orleans trades John Salmons to Phoenix, league source tells Yahoo Sports.
THE STINKY FISH KEEPS ON SWIMMING
As part of deal, New Orleans trades John Salmons to Phoenix, league source tells Yahoo Sports.
THE STINKY FISH KEEPS ON SWIMMING
Mark Deeks @MarkDeeksNBA 13m13 minutes ago
As far as I can tell, Philadelphia now own 17 picks of other teams.
As far as I can tell, Philadelphia now own 17 picks of other teams.
oh yes, fighting over the ball 
I think this worked out well for us. Miami added Dragic, Detroit added Reggie Jackson, Brooklyn swapped old-KG for Thaddeus Young, and Boston added Isaiah Thomas. All 4 of those teams are gunning for the last 2 playoff spots in the East and probably got a little better today. That makes it less likely we pass them in the standings. Indiana may or may not get Paul George back in March sometime. Denver is the only team in our range that made significant subtractions. And we got Sessions off of next year's payroll.
It's absolutely insane. Generally when you build for the future, you sift through all the rubble and keep the good young talent you find. In the case of the Sixers, they just traded away two of their three best players this season for more picks and a rookie who played in a total of three games. OH, and they acquired Javale McGee, who hasn't been a viable NBA talent for the past three seasons and is being paid eleven million dollars a year. They've already devoted a full two seasons to tanking/developing young talent and now it looks like they want to start the process over again?
Not only is this unprecedented, it's goddamn insane.
As of now, the Sixers have one bonafide prospect on their roster, one freshly drafted big man who's incredibly talented but is also missing the entire season due to back surgery, one guy who was the fourth string point guard for the Suns, D-league players, and a bunch of old guys for some reason.
Conceivably, the new Sixer starting five come tomorrow could be:
McGee (an overpaid broken dullard)/ Sims (middling bench big man)
Noel (Yay! Young talent!)
Mbah a Moute (a good role player, which is unnecessary on this roster)
Hollis Thompson (an undrafted dude who is the ONLY shooting guard on the roster who isn't injured)
Tyler Ennis (solid enough prospect)/Isaiah Canaan (a nice player but not as good as KJ McDaniels)
and pretty much no bench to speak of.
That's fine and dandy because the main objective for the Sixers is to tank. EXCEPT THEY NOW HAVE MORE DRAFT PICKS THAN THEY'LL PROBABLY HAVE ROSTER SPACE FOR. Going into next year's draft depending on protections, the Sixers could have 4 first rounders in this year's draft alone plus probably over a half-dozen second round picks. In other words:
Joel-Hans Embiid @JoelEmbiid 7m7 minutes ago
Someone tell me what's going on please help
Not only is this unprecedented, it's goddamn insane.
As of now, the Sixers have one bonafide prospect on their roster, one freshly drafted big man who's incredibly talented but is also missing the entire season due to back surgery, one guy who was the fourth string point guard for the Suns, D-league players, and a bunch of old guys for some reason.
Conceivably, the new Sixer starting five come tomorrow could be:
McGee (an overpaid broken dullard)/ Sims (middling bench big man)
Noel (Yay! Young talent!)
Mbah a Moute (a good role player, which is unnecessary on this roster)
Hollis Thompson (an undrafted dude who is the ONLY shooting guard on the roster who isn't injured)
Tyler Ennis (solid enough prospect)/Isaiah Canaan (a nice player but not as good as KJ McDaniels)
and pretty much no bench to speak of.
That's fine and dandy because the main objective for the Sixers is to tank. EXCEPT THEY NOW HAVE MORE DRAFT PICKS THAN THEY'LL PROBABLY HAVE ROSTER SPACE FOR. Going into next year's draft depending on protections, the Sixers could have 4 first rounders in this year's draft alone plus probably over a half-dozen second round picks. In other words:
Joel-Hans Embiid @JoelEmbiid 7m7 minutes ago
Someone tell me what's going on please help
word. i just can't even fathom the extremes to which their front office is executing their tanking strategy. it seems that they've become so wrapped up in the entire concept of "the tank" that it's become the goal rather than the means with which to achieve an eventual playoff-caliber roster. fans want a team to root for, not a collection of amorphous assets that may never pay off. if i'm a sixers fan, how am i supposed to feel about the development of noel and embiid when the team just shipped out a promising and developing michael carter-williams in service to "the tank" while he's still on an utterly affordable rookie deal?
It said he'd like a change not demanding one. But I was watching college last night and a great point was brought up about Nik that Bill Walton just laughed at. In half an nba season Nik will be playing for his 3rd head coach. That is stability right there that's what championship teams are made of.
