Welcome Paul George!

[HotelVitale]

I was heavily in favor of giving up the 3rd pick just to get rid of him.

The oppurtunity to correct the mistake of signing him fell right into Morey's lap, I won't fault him for not offloading PG by using the VJ pick because he's the GM and ultimatley he'll be fired or resign... but what I can't tolerate are the fans who will complain throughout the length of his contract because they wanted to keep the 3rd pick so badly. This franchise ate the full length of Tobias contract, so they apparently have the stomach to eat George's contract as well. It is what it is

You would rather cheer for the owners not paying any tax, instead of rooting for VJ? Offloading PG does not result in any major flexibility going forward.

Yeah does almost nothing for us this year or next, especially with the Embiid timeline. Also PG's only got 2 years left after this year, really not that serious of a handicap.

[Phillybul]

I mean we signed a guy who missed more games than Embiid minus his contract year (which led him to getting paid by us). You get what you paid for.

Eh, he played 90% of games the year before we signed him, 70% the year before. That's 80% of games as a pretty big and most recent sample.

He's a health gamble for sure, but it wasn't crazy to sign him, and we aren't losers or idiots because so far we've lost the bet. Gambles are gambles, aint gonna wing em all.

(We are kinda losers for continuing to bank everything on old stars, I'd argue. Kinda.)

Embiid 66,68, 51,51 are the gms played before George contract season. 56, 31, 54, 48 are the games George played during that span. Ijs why gamble on a guy coming off a contract year at his age with his injury history at the cost he commands. It’s no coincidence we are where we are with George. As far as his health heading into next season being uncertain. I guess in his defense if I had to counter my point his injury was unfortunate. Still way too much money for an aging star player. Wish George the best but I cringed when we gave him that deal. Didn’t see him pushing the needle that much to justify it honestly.

But not to be a Negadelphian I hope he makes me eat crow and is better than I’m giving him credit for. East is wide open and we just need our best players to play together consistently over a season. Then see how it goes in the playoffs.