Recent content by bigmike

Will always be a fan. Hard to stay dialed in and watch 60 losses. I'll more or less be tracking the team thru the box scores / JFC commentary.

That's a fair point. I just have a hard time attributing value to an unprotected pick owned by the LA's, Philly's, NY's of the world. These teams can generally maneuver and spend out the *** to not be terrible, which they're incentivized to do when they don't own their pick. Never know, of...

Lauri's future value is considerably higher than Paul George's at this point in their career. Taking on PG's contract for a single FRP is simply not worth it. Can't imagine that's the deal that gets struck, if indeed there is one.

This one feels pretty clear cut. We know we will suck, the question is, do we have anyone we'd like to build around / carry forward in a future core.

I look at it as we "paid" to dump Sexton + had to take $ back to get to the salary floor. But why we were the team that had to add the pick is interesting to me.

Payroll dump for BOS. Great move all around.

Yeah, I may have painted with too broad of a brush there. I'm not saying Shaq's presence was the "advent" of importance of having good bigs. But I feel like he was the driver of the "when in doubt, go big" draft mantra in the 2000's where teams just knew that if you didn't have a big athletic...

Your boy Shaq is criminally underrated in the GOAT conversation. Just like Steph ushered in the "small-ball" era, Shaq ushered in the "big man" era. All due respect to Kobe but the reason the early 2000's Lakers were a dynasty was the big guy.

So many thoughts here. I’m cool with the purple but don’t dig the mountain. We have a big *** note at mid court as we should. Why we don’t have the note on every jersey I’ll never understand. It’s the “it factor” for us. Also it feels like we change jersey schemes more than any team in the...

Considering the Wiggins / Embiid class that is high praise. I'm guessing BYU would make the same claim about AJ but it doesn't hit quite as hard...

Hope you're right. That'd be awesome.

What a banger of a question. I guess I'll go with my all-time favorites in a "timeless" sense. You Get What You Give - New Radicals I Wanna Know - Joe All Eyez on Me - Tupac (the song) Big Ego's - Dr. Dre Springsteen - Eric Church

Pretty sad. Gun to my head, I probably would've taken him ~4-6 last season and felt nauseous about it. Just an atrocious draft.

I dunno, I personally think Harper was a pretty clear #2. 6'4"+ without shoes, 6'10" wingspan, can playmake for others and create his own offense, etc. Maybe a lower ceiling than Ace or VJ, but still pretty high, and (IMO) a higher floor. I think SAS got it right but we'll see.

Just get the best players. In no world should we pass on Dybantsa or Boozer if they're the superior prospect because they're duplicative with Ace, don't offer a lot of playmaking, etc. That said I'm high on DP. I think there's a really good chance he goes #2 next season. Just don't see anyone...