Oh Boy - It's August (Or Close Enough)
Zo gets us ready to bunker down for the start of the REAL offseason.
Team Ricky Rundown
The guys dish on Top 5 Sixers Since 2000, and my second favorite topic, deals around the margins!
ESPN’s Dotun Akintoye talks his Embiid masterpiece and how much Colangelo had to be taken out of the article, among other awesome insight
A really great AU Process-related list. Sidebar: Miss Mike Scott and the Hive so much. Mike’s time ended in the most admirable, Sixersy, way - a fiery playoff doom where he was asked to do way too much.
All of a sudden the Sixers have a power forward rotation, but are any of those options sustainable?
Sixers around the League
Won’t get bent out of shape over this, but Jared Butler was more than serviceable last year especially as a traditional ball handler. Here’s hoping Morey and Co. saw something they liked better in one of the summer Sixers.
I used to say only two people have ever said “It’s Trey Burke time”, those two people are me and Trey Burke. Love him forever.
Let’s just shoot for V.J. finishing the season with all four limbs and cartilages intact and no autoimmune diseases and we’ll let the other stuff come as it does.
Five for the Road
-Very in on Houston and Orlando next season.
-On the fence about the Hawks but definitely see the vision.
-Last year I would have been PISSED but this year if the Sixers turn in a play-in team but in a “super fun young guys who just need two more pieces and some bad contracts off the books” type of season, I’ll probably be very chill and happy about that.
-Think Ben Simmons eventually ends up in Lakers training camp and finds a way to hang on there. He can still rebound, run and play defense and if his back holds up great. Crazy even talking about a guy like that, with so much backstory, in this manner.
-Michael Beasley is ready for the league again. Might say that every week.
