@RotoPat I initially subscribed to The Athletic for strong local content (churned when beat writers left). I don’t see a reason to pay for slightly better / more neutral coverage of the same national stories already covered to death on other outlets, podcasts, and X.
@RealMattCarey It is an all time dumb, but also weird, trade. A middling team trading a young and inexpensive player to the best team in the league for “ok” draft compensation. Because his salary is so little, the deal was truly a bet on whether McCain was any good.
@PeteSampson_ No. ND should not allow CFB to use an outlier situation (ND having 3rd best odds to win title but curiously being ranked 11, and then getting jumping by two mid majors) as the rationale for bastardizing the regular season. Teams ranked 13-24 should not have a shot at the title.
@CoachD178@billtrocchi@tsnmike@CoachD178 this was unnecessary. Before your response literally no one knew The Sporting News was still in business. It’s like the Boston Market of sports publications.
@MikeSielski Funny and sad you could make a list like this and genuinely forget (another) #1 overall pick that forget how to shoot and is now out of the league.
@SpikeEskin Do you think the Sixers front office ever paused to consider why one of the best run organizations in the league wanted to trade for McCain?
@legsanity I’m sure it’s happened, but I cannot recall another time when a “good” team traded a young / cheap player to a “great” team for picks. It’s alarming the juggernaut Thunder saw a role for McCain right away while the middling Sixers couldn’t get him consistent minutes.
@PHLY_Sixers@KyleNeubeck 100. This is on Morey and ownership. And not just at deadline … resigning Lowry and Gordon last summer. Drafting 33 year old Johni Broome who is not an NBA player. Curiously deciding to punt on the margins bit them in the ass.
@dan_wilson4@SportsRadioWIP Morey - a guy who people think wins around the edges - has compiled the worst bench in the league. Kyle Lowry is older than Kerry Kittles and he’s still better than 4 guys on our bench. His only good decision was not paying Grimes.
@big_business_ Holy hell he’s really delusional. He thinks it’s a conspiracy theory that the refs called a small percentage of his many obvious offensive fouls.
@letitflyely They showed the replay of the Embiid “technical” 34 times and never once commented on Brown putting his head down and ramming into George. It looked like Daffy Duck in Space Jam