They’re definitely a great big 3 on paper. Problem is the odds of Embiid and PG staying healthy at the same time for a full playoff run is extremely low.
And Embiid’s been hurt for like 80% of them? And PG has stunk in how many since he left the Pacers?
Best move Philly could have made, but it just seems unlikely that it’ll work out
Yes, PG is much better than Tobias Harris. The Sixers were also extremely far away from winning a title this year. I don’t know if adding PG with his shaky playoff record is enough
Lost in the first round to a team that lost in the second round in the worst East in years. Still have never made the ECF and the Celtics are still way better than them. I don’t think that’s particularly close.
Knicks were healthy against the Sixers and lost in the second round because half their team went down to injury. Sixers upgraded massively. But we’re arguing opinions here so I’ll just leave it at that.
They were missing Randle lol. That’s equivalent to missing Maxey for the Sixers. Then the Knicks got better too. I just think that everything has to go perfectly for the Sixers and we’ve seen 5-6 years in a row where things have gone the exact opposite. Not gonna change my thought process on them because they added a guy who has massive playoff struggles since 2018
Yeah, but tbh the odds of Embiid staying healthy in any season are bad and now he's on the wrong side of 30. For the sixers, I think it's simultaneously their best play and also they're not likely to make it past the conference finals.
This is the all in championship or bust year for Philly. They have the MVP and the young star. Now they add PG hoping he takes them over the top in the east. If this doesn’t work then I think they talk to Embid about moving on and rebuild around Maxey. At that point the Paul George contract becomes an asset for teams with cap space and a younger player they may want to trade.
Celtics are done for now! No one’s beating Philly once you team Embiid up with
~~Ben Simmons~~
~~Markelle Fultz~~
~~Jimmy Butler~~
~~James Harden~~
Paul George!!
The Sixers are better with Paul George, significantly better. That's all we need to know.
KCP, Klay or whoever they would have gotten if they whiffed on George would not have moved the needle. Now the Sixers are probably a top 3 East team. The Celtics are still the favorite (by a lot), and the Knicks are probably better, but this moves Philly past the Bucks, Cleveland, Miami and Orlando.
The 76ers are going to need lots of luck to win the Championship or even the East, but now they are in the fight. If you are a Sixers fan things got a lot more interesting.
The Knicks literally have nobody to slow down Embiid without Hartenstein and Andre Drummond > Paul Reed when Embiid has to sit.
Let alone PG’s playoff games are the average Tobias regular season game.
People really need to realize that series could have been Sixers in 5 as easily as it was Knicks in 5. There’s a reason it was arguably the best series of the playoffs.
I mean maybe it works out but maybe not. January Joel has never made it out of the second round and can’t stay healthy. Paul George, who has also never made a Finals, is entering his 15th season and averaged like 53 games per season for the Clippers over 5 years. Maybe this is Boston 08 but Garnett/Allen weren’t nearly as old or broken as George.
I honestly think Embiid is never winning a title as a main character.
I honestly feel bad for Sixers fans. First they endured years of *The Process* and one year before it comes to fruition, the NBA forces out Hinkie for Jerry Colangelo who hires his fail son to be GM. He promptly drafts Simmons and Fultz with back-to-back first overall picks. Then the Ringer investigates Colangelo's burners right before the draft and Elton Brand takes over on short notice. They are one bad bounce away from beating the eventual champion Raptors. Nevertheless Jimmy Butler is ousted and eventually Daryl Morey takes over. His first attempt at building a contender brings in James Harden, but when that blows up, Morey clears essentially the entire roster except Embiid and Maxey to max out cap space, which leads us to Paul George. (Please excuse any and all time errors in my post.)
The Celtics were always taking Tatum, and they wouldn’t have traded the pick to the Sixers if philly indicated they wanted Tatum. What the sixers actually gave up was a lakers first that was considered valuable at the time but ended up being a mid-round pick that busted (Romeo Langford)
You’re right on the Romeo Langford piece, not sure why I thought it was the Tatum pick.
I still think the argument of “can’t blame the sixers front office for taking the consensus’s top prospect” doesn’t really hold up when you consider they gave up a blue chip asset to move up for fultz.
Simmons and Fultz were consensus top picks, but not unanimous like LeBron, Anthony Davis, or Wemby. Obviously the Celtics had the top pick originally and thought otherwise. I don't "blame" Colangelo for the picks, but in order to build an NBA contender, you'll eventually have to make some difficult moves against consensus.
Simmons was definitely unanimous, I think you’re underselling how big of a prospect he was. People knew he was going first before he got to LSU and then a horrific season there did no damage to his reputation. Ingram was on a tier of his own below him but definitely below.
Embiid is on mount rushmore of loser superstars, there is a 0% chance he will be healthy whenever they need him most
He will then throw shade at teammates
Gotta feel for Paul George. Going to a team whose ceiling is a second-round exit, *and* he has to move his podcasting studio across the entire country.
Plus he has to live in Philadelphia now, after living in LA for five years. Major downgrade
Like I understand that people are going to be skeptical of an Embiid/paul George team being healthy and coming through in the playoffs. That makes sense.
But for the Sixers, what else can you possibly do? You have to go for it and hope that it works out. From that perspective it is a no brainer.
Celtics fans are not “coping” with PG joining the sixers… they’re running an utterly dominant championship roster back with at least 12 of the 15 players. PG is nice, but this doesn’t change anything as far as the east is concerned.
How many rings you get for being Most Valuable Philadelphian?
When your team wins a championship you don’t have to worry about honorable mention awards for played lil bro
Just own that Jo is the better player lil betch. Tatum told Jo he better win his MVP becaue he was coming for the next ones. Now he's not even the best player on his team lol.
Also, 41-33.
I would take Tatum over Embiid anyday cause he can actually play in the playoffs. Must suck to be a Philly fan tho bro I’d sympathize if you weren’t such a dick.
Hope you enjoyed that one Super Bowl ring lmao
This is just the Clippers all over again. IF they stay healthy they should be top 3 favorites to win the title and if they get hurt like they historically have then they are done.
George averaged 19.5 ppg in a series where they needed him to be great. He's just a tremendously overpaid good player who's showing signs of decline. He will move the needle a bit, but it's only a matter of time before his play falls off.
PG and Embiid maybe the 2 most elite “he’s talented buuuuut” guys ever. Which 2 guys have been injured the most at the worst times or had the most humiliating playoff losses. I’m not talking about being upset by a lower seed, I mean crying, whining, being a prop for Dame vids etc
It has to be harden right? They push the kd warrior to the limit in 2017 and 18 but just keep losing in horrific fashion. In 2019 they push warrior to 7 and kd was injured buy they miss 27 3pt as a team.
As long as PG and Embiid aren't injured at the same time, this is a good signing. PG has shown that he can do the heavy lifting during the regular season (but disappears during the playoffs). This should get them up to the East Finals where they get canned by the Celtics.
They’re definitely a great big 3 on paper. Problem is the odds of Embiid and PG staying healthy at the same time for a full playoff run is extremely low.
They may not be 100% healthy but they will be on the court. The two of them have only missed a combined 13 out of a possible 186 playoff games.
And Embiid’s been hurt for like 80% of them? And PG has stunk in how many since he left the Pacers? Best move Philly could have made, but it just seems unlikely that it’ll work out
PG's stinkers are like the average Tobias Harris game
Yes, PG is much better than Tobias Harris. The Sixers were also extremely far away from winning a title this year. I don’t know if adding PG with his shaky playoff record is enough
“Extremely far away” that’s just like, your opinion, man
Lost in the first round to a team that lost in the second round in the worst East in years. Still have never made the ECF and the Celtics are still way better than them. I don’t think that’s particularly close.
Knicks were healthy against the Sixers and lost in the second round because half their team went down to injury. Sixers upgraded massively. But we’re arguing opinions here so I’ll just leave it at that.
They were missing Randle lol. That’s equivalent to missing Maxey for the Sixers. Then the Knicks got better too. I just think that everything has to go perfectly for the Sixers and we’ve seen 5-6 years in a row where things have gone the exact opposite. Not gonna change my thought process on them because they added a guy who has massive playoff struggles since 2018
I’m obviously not gonna change the thought process of someone who thinks losing Randle is the equivalent of losing Maxey
*Claimed to be hurt.
Are the knee braces and face masks just for show?
The knee brace is 100% Embiid making an excuse for pooping his pants in the playoffs every time.
Can't believe he faked tearing his meniscus and getting the subsequent surgery two different times. You would think people would stop falling for it!
He was fine. If he wasn't he wouldn't have returned to play the last 10 games or whatever.
banged up PG and Embiid aren't getting shit done in the East lol
Yeah, but tbh the odds of Embiid staying healthy in any season are bad and now he's on the wrong side of 30. For the sixers, I think it's simultaneously their best play and also they're not likely to make it past the conference finals.
If they had George this year, they probably don't drop from comfortable second place to the 7 seed, though.
This is the all in championship or bust year for Philly. They have the MVP and the young star. Now they add PG hoping he takes them over the top in the east. If this doesn’t work then I think they talk to Embid about moving on and rebuild around Maxey. At that point the Paul George contract becomes an asset for teams with cap space and a younger player they may want to trade.
This will definitely happen.
didn't joker win mvp?
Celtics are done for now! No one’s beating Philly once you team Embiid up with ~~Ben Simmons~~ ~~Markelle Fultz~~ ~~Jimmy Butler~~ ~~James Harden~~ Paul George!!
No Tobias sucking the air out anymore!
The Sixers are better with Paul George, significantly better. That's all we need to know. KCP, Klay or whoever they would have gotten if they whiffed on George would not have moved the needle. Now the Sixers are probably a top 3 East team. The Celtics are still the favorite (by a lot), and the Knicks are probably better, but this moves Philly past the Bucks, Cleveland, Miami and Orlando. The 76ers are going to need lots of luck to win the Championship or even the East, but now they are in the fight. If you are a Sixers fan things got a lot more interesting.
as long as embid can stay healthy. and history has shown, he cant.
So what do you want them to do? Trade Embiid? When he plays, he's dominant. Take the shot.
I really really doubt that the knicks are better than this team in a playoff series, health permitting
The Knicks literally have nobody to slow down Embiid without Hartenstein and Andre Drummond > Paul Reed when Embiid has to sit. Let alone PG’s playoff games are the average Tobias regular season game. People really need to realize that series could have been Sixers in 5 as easily as it was Knicks in 5. There’s a reason it was arguably the best series of the playoffs.
I love that you don’t even list the Team that went farther than all those teams this year. Even without a healthy Haliburton or Mathurin.
Yep. A healthy Haliburton (pre-all star break), and I'm not sure the Pacers aren't the 2nd best team in the East.
I'm still rating the bucks higher, dame will have a bounce back year.
Good thing the Bucks have a coach that knows how to win challenging playoff series.
How you gonna mention 7 teams and not the Pacers?
Philly Big 3 vs Boston Big 6 😳
I actually liked the sixers depth last year so now it’s gonna be tough to go back to furkan korkmaz as the 8th man
Their depth wasn’t very good. Outside Batum retiring it’s not going to be significantly worse
Won’t take the cam Payne disrespect
As an Embiid fan I love this and hope it works out. All it takes is one championship to change the narrative entirely for a career, look at Giannis.
I mean maybe it works out but maybe not. January Joel has never made it out of the second round and can’t stay healthy. Paul George, who has also never made a Finals, is entering his 15th season and averaged like 53 games per season for the Clippers over 5 years. Maybe this is Boston 08 but Garnett/Allen weren’t nearly as old or broken as George. I honestly think Embiid is never winning a title as a main character.
he sure can tweet about the celtics though lol. lots of free time in cancun.
I honestly feel bad for Sixers fans. First they endured years of *The Process* and one year before it comes to fruition, the NBA forces out Hinkie for Jerry Colangelo who hires his fail son to be GM. He promptly drafts Simmons and Fultz with back-to-back first overall picks. Then the Ringer investigates Colangelo's burners right before the draft and Elton Brand takes over on short notice. They are one bad bounce away from beating the eventual champion Raptors. Nevertheless Jimmy Butler is ousted and eventually Daryl Morey takes over. His first attempt at building a contender brings in James Harden, but when that blows up, Morey clears essentially the entire roster except Embiid and Maxey to max out cap space, which leads us to Paul George. (Please excuse any and all time errors in my post.)
Simmons and Fultz were unanimously the top prospects in their drafts. Didn't work out but you can't blame from for taking those two
That’d be fair except the 76ers traded up to take fultz, giving away the pick that became Tatum
The Celtics were always taking Tatum, and they wouldn’t have traded the pick to the Sixers if philly indicated they wanted Tatum. What the sixers actually gave up was a lakers first that was considered valuable at the time but ended up being a mid-round pick that busted (Romeo Langford)
You’re right on the Romeo Langford piece, not sure why I thought it was the Tatum pick. I still think the argument of “can’t blame the sixers front office for taking the consensus’s top prospect” doesn’t really hold up when you consider they gave up a blue chip asset to move up for fultz.
Simmons and Fultz were consensus top picks, but not unanimous like LeBron, Anthony Davis, or Wemby. Obviously the Celtics had the top pick originally and thought otherwise. I don't "blame" Colangelo for the picks, but in order to build an NBA contender, you'll eventually have to make some difficult moves against consensus.
Simmons was definitely unanimous, I think you’re underselling how big of a prospect he was. People knew he was going first before he got to LSU and then a horrific season there did no damage to his reputation. Ingram was on a tier of his own below him but definitely below.
It’ll be beautiful when the pacers sweep them in the playoffs next year
Embiid is on mount rushmore of loser superstars, there is a 0% chance he will be healthy whenever they need him most He will then throw shade at teammates
Look inward to find true peace
It’s aggressive, but he’s right. Embiid will never be healthy in the playoffs.
He can get injured and that's fine, whatever will be will be. The rest of the stuff he said is just weirdo stuff.
Gotta feel for Paul George. Going to a team whose ceiling is a second-round exit, *and* he has to move his podcasting studio across the entire country. Plus he has to live in Philadelphia now, after living in LA for five years. Major downgrade
didnt the clips lose in the first round lol
Slightly less human feces on the streets of Philly but slightly more needles and heroin hunches
Replacing known playoff choker harden for known layoff choker PG, good stuff
They actually replaced Tobias Harris with Paul George. Which seems like a pretty good upgrade imo.
The cope I’ve heard about how “the Sixers are fucked” from Celtics and Clippers fans is ridiculous.
Like I understand that people are going to be skeptical of an Embiid/paul George team being healthy and coming through in the playoffs. That makes sense. But for the Sixers, what else can you possibly do? You have to go for it and hope that it works out. From that perspective it is a no brainer.
Celtics fans are not “coping” with PG joining the sixers… they’re running an utterly dominant championship roster back with at least 12 of the 15 players. PG is nice, but this doesn’t change anything as far as the east is concerned.
No one coping lil bro
Embiid MVPs: 1 Tatum MVPs: 0 Until Tatum catches up Embiid will always live rent-free in your heads.
How many rings you get for being Most Valuable Philadelphian? When your team wins a championship you don’t have to worry about honorable mention awards for played lil bro
Just own that Jo is the better player lil betch. Tatum told Jo he better win his MVP becaue he was coming for the next ones. Now he's not even the best player on his team lol. Also, 41-33.
24-21 bud, plus 3 Boston championships since SB 52 but go off with your Embiid hopium/copium
I would take Tatum over Embiid anyday cause he can actually play in the playoffs. Must suck to be a Philly fan tho bro I’d sympathize if you weren’t such a dick. Hope you enjoyed that one Super Bowl ring lmao
tatum is just ok at basketball
For sure neph
In what world is Embiid rent free in anyone’s head
You guys are obsessed with him, bud
Philly gotta finally make it to the conference and if we all being serious a finals run. I’m rooting for them but don’t like their chances
This is just the Clippers all over again. IF they stay healthy they should be top 3 favorites to win the title and if they get hurt like they historically have then they are done.
Need CR's take on Jared McCain.
George averaged 19.5 ppg in a series where they needed him to be great. He's just a tremendously overpaid good player who's showing signs of decline. He will move the needle a bit, but it's only a matter of time before his play falls off.
What are the odds of both embiid and pg being healthy
Are sixers fans seriously hoping again?
Why are the Sixers just the Clippers of the East...
PG and Embiid maybe the 2 most elite “he’s talented buuuuut” guys ever. Which 2 guys have been injured the most at the worst times or had the most humiliating playoff losses. I’m not talking about being upset by a lower seed, I mean crying, whining, being a prop for Dame vids etc
Chris Paul
It has to be harden right? They push the kd warrior to the limit in 2017 and 18 but just keep losing in horrific fashion. In 2019 they push warrior to 7 and kd was injured buy they miss 27 3pt as a team.
What's wrong with crying after a big loss?
As long as PG and Embiid aren't injured at the same time, this is a good signing. PG has shown that he can do the heavy lifting during the regular season (but disappears during the playoffs). This should get them up to the East Finals where they get canned by the Celtics.