With all due respect, Tobias isn’t Sixers fans’ cross to bear. Joel Embiid is. The ONLY reason Tobias is still here in Philly, playing out this contract is because it’s yet ANOTHER franchise/front office mistake surrounding the delusion that is this pipe dream that the Sixers can win with Embiid as their centerpiece. Had the Sixers done what a responsible franchise should have done last summer, then Tobias would already be gone. What the team SHOULD have done was ship out Embiid first for a massive haul of players and picks. Then traded Harden and Harris for as many picks and players that would fit with what we got back for Embiid. We should be about six months into the re-tooling process without Embiid or Harris, but instead we’re now going to lose Harris for nothing and be stuck trying to deal Embiid with another major injury on his resume and him being even older. Genius.
But Harris is still here now because Embiid is still here. I think we also need to face the fact that Sixers ownership wanted to keep Tobias and his expiring contract so that THEY could benefit at the end of the season. It was more valuable to them than anything we might have been offered at the deadline to trade Harris. Look at what this current roster is comprised of now. Joel Embiid is the ONLY player under contract for next season! Paul Reed is unlikely to qualify for his contract to roll over, and he’s the only other one who had a technical chance of being under contract at season’s end. This is deliberate.
Sixers are trying to sell the city on this notion that they wanted to have an empty roster so they could sign all the best free agents to then put around Embiid for some new “superteam” that will finally give Joel a chance at a title. If you believe this nonsense, you should also believe that Chinatown decided it now loves the idea of a new Sixers stadium in their neighborhood. Not only have the Sixers never signed a top free agent in the Embiid era, but most of the top free agents never change teams. And this year’s crop of free agents are so sketchy that Tobias Harris is considered one of the top 10-15 names available!
We’re a franchise dying on a hill that is named Joel Embiid. Let’s stop blaming it on other players who are incidental to the issue. Embiid has been a lot of fun to watch over the years. We gave it a good shot with him, but it’s dunzo.
With all due respect, Tobias isn’t Sixers fans’ cross to bear. Joel Embiid is. The ONLY reason Tobias is still here in Philly, playing out this contract is because it’s yet ANOTHER franchise/front office mistake surrounding the delusion that is this pipe dream that the Sixers can win with Embiid as their centerpiece. Had the Sixers done what a responsible franchise should have done last summer, then Tobias would already be gone. What the team SHOULD have done was ship out Embiid first for a massive haul of players and picks. Then traded Harden and Harris for as many picks and players that would fit with what we got back for Embiid. We should be about six months into the re-tooling process without Embiid or Harris, but instead we’re now going to lose Harris for nothing and be stuck trying to deal Embiid with another major injury on his resume and him being even older. Genius.
But Harris is still here now because Embiid is still here. I think we also need to face the fact that Sixers ownership wanted to keep Tobias and his expiring contract so that THEY could benefit at the end of the season. It was more valuable to them than anything we might have been offered at the deadline to trade Harris. Look at what this current roster is comprised of now. Joel Embiid is the ONLY player under contract for next season! Paul Reed is unlikely to qualify for his contract to roll over, and he’s the only other one who had a technical chance of being under contract at season’s end. This is deliberate.
Sixers are trying to sell the city on this notion that they wanted to have an empty roster so they could sign all the best free agents to then put around Embiid for some new “superteam” that will finally give Joel a chance at a title. If you believe this nonsense, you should also believe that Chinatown decided it now loves the idea of a new Sixers stadium in their neighborhood. Not only have the Sixers never signed a top free agent in the Embiid era, but most of the top free agents never change teams. And this year’s crop of free agents are so sketchy that Tobias Harris is considered one of the top 10-15 names available!
We’re a franchise dying on a hill that is named Joel Embiid. Let’s stop blaming it on other players who are incidental to the issue. Embiid has been a lot of fun to watch over the years. We gave it a good shot with him, but it’s dunzo.
this is some real galaxy brain stuff.
disagree