If any other president had done this, it would have been a massive controversy and talking point.
With our current weirdo, it has just been normalized.
Fultz & Simmons over Tatum & Brown
Failed to get value for Jahlil Okafor
Traded Shamet for Tobias
Let Butler walk for Tobias
Signed Tobias for 5yrs/180mil
Brought in Al Horford to start alongside Ben/Embiid
Traded Mikal Bridges for Zhaire Smith
Lost 2nd round pick for tampering to get PJ Tucker and Danuel House
Wasted Harden days with a 40 yr old PJ Tucker and Tobias Harris
Cut Isaiah Joe for 40 yr old Dedmon
Traded McCain for a 22nd pick
Cut Champagnie so McClung can participate in slam dunk contest
I feel like I only covered 10%
Nick Wright on the debate if LeBron James tenure in LA was a success:
“LeBron the record is 8 years with the Lakers, 7 trips to the playoffs. 2 seasons where they made a conference finals and 1 championship. And you’re going to have folks today earnestly genuinely try to argue that LeBron Lakers tenure was a failure. To which I would simply say or ask and don’t even add I’m not even asking you to add any age related qualifiers to it. Has Giannis 13 year Bucks career been a failure? Because in those 13 years, Giannis has 1 trip to the finals, 1 championship, and 1 trip to another conference finals and that’s the exact same thing as Bron in his 8 with the Lakers.”
(Via @WhatsWrightShow)
2006: Facing a 64 win team with a championship core in the 2nd round, LeBron leads the series in PPG, but the next 4 highest scorers were all on the other team.
2026: Facing a 64 win team with a championship core in the 2nd round, LeBron leads the series in PPG, but the next 3 highest scorers were all on the other team.
The unluckiest great player in sports history.