how about over the last 2 seasons? 🤔

Cherry picking ey? Nice.

7 playoff wins over the past 2 seasons for the Sixers

????

Still confused as to what we're talking about here. Here said they have no playoff wins, but that seems to be false (no surprise).

Bucks: 3/4 top players began their careers elsewhere.
Warriors: did we forget KD joined? Iggy, Livingston. All big contributors.
Cavs: So it’s cool for the Cavs to pickup Lebron in FA but when the lakers do it that win doesn’t matter? Hypocrite.
Warriors 2015 - This fits, although Bogut was huge and was an acquisition.
Spurs 2014 - fair
Mavs 2011 - ummmm non of them were drafted by Mavs? Dirk, Walker, Terry, Kidd all began elsewhere per your rules.
Spurs 2000s - fair

Okay great so maybe 1-2 teams in past 20 years were drafted and not built by trades and FA acquisitions. That sure doesn’t seem like the norm to me.

Didn’t you say the lakers would be “shit” once Kobe left, we would never recover, yet here we are. You keep talking about .500 like your team wasn't .500 2 weeks ago lol.

You took playoffs wins quite too literally I obviously know your team has won a playoff game. What they haven’t done is win a playoff series beyond the second round since 2000 to gosh I don’t remember who. Oh yeah it was the Lakers during their 3 peat.

Imagine watching your shitty team for 30+ years to only see them advance past the second round one time and get absolutely slaughtered. Yeah if I were you I’d be praying for the draft too.

lol you're not understanding that building through the draft doesn't mean everyone has to be drafted....those teams i mentioned all had their CORE drafted, then added FA's off of that. That's how you properly build in the NBA, not vice versa. This isn't a secret, everyone knows this....

Lakers are .500 and the GOAT Lebron is the only thing that saved that embarrassing franchise from being the usual lottery team they are


Too bad LeBron won't be around forever. AD is overrated as fuck and made of glass, and the rest of that team is dog shit rofl.

You mentioned multiple teams whom had a single player drafted from their top 3-4 players rofl your running circles in your little argument bud. Maybe the 39 years of losing basketball is digging into your brain.

AD has been hurt for over a month and only played in 5 less games than Embiid ROFL.

AD is 28 and has played over 1600 minutes 8 times in his career.
Embiid is 27 and has played over 1600 minutes 2 times in his career, neither of them being the past 2 years.

Embiid’s year with the most time played was 18-19 where he played over 2100 minutes. AD has eclipsed 2100 minutes in 6 different seasons.

You’ll be lucky if Embiid is fully available come playoff time. It’s always something.

What are you talking about? Bucks had Giannis and Middleton, and they added an established Holiday, Lopez, etc. You can't count Middleton as a FA signing or something when they traded for him at 21 years old after his rookie year when he was a fucking second round pick lmao. Middleton was a throw in player in that trade too lol.


You're not understanding what we're saying here. There's a huge difference between investing in young players before they're established (i.e. draft, early trades before they're established, draft night trades, etc) and going after big fish in FA with max contracts. Most Championship teams START through the draft or players they've invested in from the beginning. Look at many of the previous champions in the past 20 years, the majority of them fall into this category. Bucks, Warriors, Cavs, Mavs, Spurs, etc. All of their go-to players mostly consist of home grown talent, and then additions are made off of there. Hell, even the Miami Heat had Wade who is the one that lured LeBron and Bosh to join him in Miami.

This stuff is NBA 101. Everyone knows you build a championship team through the draft and/or DEVELOP the younger players first, and build off of it through FA. That's literally how the NBA designs the league and how the contract situation is designed to entice players to stay as much as possible. The idea of building a championship team strictly through FA is just rare and not ideal for the majority of markets in the NBA (ask the Knicks lmao). Lakers got away with it during a bubble year because they're in LA and players are drawn to Hollywood and Cali and they added the greatest player of his generation to bail them out (which naturally draws other good players like AD), but that's an exception and not a norm....

As a Lakers fan, i guess you wouldn't understand how to build a team from the ground up through the draft since the one and only good player the Lakers have drafted and developed over the past 25 years was Kobe rofl.

This post was edited by Sixers on Jan 19 2022 03:13pm

Also, earlier in his career Embiid was more injury prone, but over the last 4 years AD has become nothing but a frail glass bitch who gets hurt all of the time even more than Embiid.

Over the past 4 years AD has missed like 20+ more games than Embiid has and has sustained way more injuries.

AD is going the wrong direction in his career and he's getting called out for it by just about everyone. Supposed to be helping take pressure off LeBron but he's failing miserably.

Embiid has NEVER played more than 64 games in an entire season. Let’s not pretend like he’s fixed anything.

Hasn't needed to, the Sixer have literally been able to just rest him a lot out of precaution to keep him fresh for the playoffs where he has dominated. If only they got him help.

Embiid has been much more durable in recent seasons than AD, that much is for sure. The only reason Embiid missed time this season was because of Covid protocol. He hasn't experienced nearly as much random fragile injuries as AD has.


AD has a new body part injured every other weak. Dude is scrawny and frail rofl.

This post was edited by Sixers on Jan 19 2022 09:51pm

embiid won me $50 thanks son