If We Lose Our Pick....

[sixers hoops]

Ok, what is a viable Giannis trade? #3 + Maxey plus another 1st?

Embiid and George are cooked. We will be a first round exit with Giannis. I don’t want for push for any win-now moves. Embiid knees are cooked. Morey is going to look baffled when Embiid can’t play regularly after January, but that is what happens when you choose to “clean up” a degenerative knee condition. We need to build with young parts.

[ProcessDoctor]

I'm somewhere in between trading for Giannis and trading Embiid.

[sixers hoops]

ESPN trying to cause chaos in Philly for 30 seconds. No way something didn’t get broken somewhere in that time frame

I kid you not my hand was trembling over the the little white x in the top right corner of my stream

"--and that means Philadelphia lo-"

I was gone

For real. ESPN had me **** up

I knew he was wrong. Until we saw that OKC card or Sixers card, he couldn’t know that we were eliminated.

[LordCovington33]

Ok, what is a viable Giannis trade? #3 + Maxey plus another 1st?

If they do that, I’d vomit. There’s no future in that

[Covi_Marsh]

Ranking the most Sixers-y outcomes of Monday night:

1. Sixers get the #3 or #4 pick. Close, but no cigar has been the name of the game for the Sixers in the process era, and keeping the pick, but not being able to get Flagg or Harper would be true to that. And it would be a situation where everyone will have to debate all summer if the Sixers should keep the player they draft(if they use the pick) or leading up to the draft, trade the pick for a veteran to try to win now. And whatever the Sixers end up choosing will be wrong.

2. Lose the pick - the Sixers tried to win in 2024-25 and are only here due to utter incompetence. Losing the pick to teams that are just bad or are trying to be bad because would be sticking it to the Sixers for trying and failing so hard. The player the Thunder draft with the pick ends up being a superstar. Sixers fans are used to things always going wrong when it matters most and this would just be more of that.

3. Sixers get the #2 pick - close, but no cigar again. The Sixers take Harper, he's really good, but the ongoing debate about just how the hell a roster with this many guards is sustainable, and naturally the heated debates begin about trading one of Maxey, McCain, Grimes, and which one to trade.

4. Sixers get the #1 pick - they've gotten lucky keeping the Maxey pick before, and won with Simmons before. So it's not like the Sixers have been devoid of any luck. It's just more often bad things happen. Maybe the universe throws the Sixers a bone for all the suffering.

5. Sixers get the #6 pick - it feels too simple and on the nose for Sixers fans. It would just be too uneventful and there's some torture waiting to see if one more team jumps you and you lose the pick. But not as torturous of finding out you jumped into the top 4, waiting for the commercial break to find out if you get the #1 pick.

6. Sixers stay at #5 - statistically the most unlikely and even more uneventful than getting the 6 pick because they don't move at all. At least with #5 if someone behind the Sixers jumps into the top 4, Sixers fans have to hold their breath and hope no one else does and that would be a little scary.

Right on cue lol.

Most Sixer-y outcome. They get the 1st pick, they get the 2nd pick, they get the 3rd or 4th pick, they get the 5th pick, they get the 6th pick, they lose their pick.

Right on que

[LordCovington33]

Ok, what is a viable Giannis trade? #3 + Maxey plus another 1st?

Embiid and George are cooked. We will be a first round exit with Giannis. I don’t want for push for any win-now moves. Embiid knees are cooked. Morey is going to look baffled when Embiid can’t play regularly after January, but that is what happens when you choose to “clean up” a degenerative knee condition. We need to build with young parts.

Of course

[76thBearCub]

Just get the guy who's available that you think gives us the best 12 years. Don't get fancy. It's not what we wanted but it's the 3rd overall pick. Can't mess this up.

[Sixersftw]

I kid you not my hand was trembling over the the little white x in the top right corner of my stream

"--and that means Philadelphia lo-"

I was gone

For real. ESPN had me **** up

I knew he was wrong. Until we saw that OKC card or Sixers card, he couldn’t know that we were eliminated.

Have you ever had an argument with a confident idiot that has you questioning yourself? I knew he was wrong because there were two available lottery spots but he said it with such authority, so early, that my mind went into panic mode.

[sixers hoops]

I'm somewhere in between trading for Giannis and trading Embiid.

I don’t think they can trade Embiid. He has four years left on his contract, with his number escalating to $70 million. He has played 58 games over two seasons and just had surgery. Morey is prob the only GM reckless enough to trade for him, and he is our GM.

[BlackKnight]

Draft Bailey, trade Embiid+PG13 and do a half-rebuild with Maxey, McCain, and Bailey as our core of the future

[sixers hoops]

For real. ESPN had me **** up

I knew he was wrong. Until we saw that OKC card or Sixers card, he couldn’t know that we were eliminated.

Have you ever had an argument with a confident idiot that has you questioning yourself? I knew he was wrong because there were two available lottery spots but he said it with such authority, so early, that my mind went into panic mode.

I was so busy examining if there was something I could have miss, then they flipped the five card and he corrected himself, but I thought until I see Sixers or OKC, I’m assuming he is wrong.

Did he say that after the 8 pick was revealed? It was pretty early.

[Embiid-MVP]

Just take Bailey and run. We're very fortunate to have a top 3 pick. Everyone keeps saying Harper and flagg but I'm very high on Bailey as well. I wouldn't trade him either. Rather build for post Embiid then throw this away just to fail miserably and have nothing to show for it. Add in another top rookie to all these younger promising guys we lucked into and let's see what we really got in the near future

[Zumramania]

I'm happy with the 3rd pick! Considering that we had realistic chances of losing the pick altogether, this is great!

Now we have Maxey, McCain, Grimes, 3rd pick, Edwards, Bona, Yabu (?). Even without PG and Embiid this is a nice youthful group. If PG comes back and Embiid is not completely cooked, we are a good team. If not, we can watch Maxey and McCain cook and watch our 3rd pick develop. If Morey got Maxey and McCain with such mediocre picks, he will choose well with the 3rd pick. We have an ok future, even with PG and Embiid's contracts. If Embiid is truly cooked, he could retire eventually. PG cannot be worse than this season.

I am fairly optimistic. I do not think Morey will trade our 3rd pick btw. He may trade future picks but not our current pick because this is our future that he can choose right now in a pretty good draft. At least these are my thoughts.

[the_process]

I'm happy with the 3rd pick! Considering that we had realistic chances of losing the pick altogether, this is great!

Now we have Maxey, McCain, Grimes, 3rd pick, Edwards, Bona, Yabu (?). Even without PG and Embiid this is a nice youthful group. If PG comes back and Embiid is not completely cooked, we are a good team. If not, we can watch Maxey and McCain cook and watch our 3rd pick develop. If Morey got Maxey and McCain with such mediocre picks, he will choose well with the 3rd pick. We have an ok future, even with PG and Embiid's contracts. If Embiid is truly cooked, he could retire eventually. PG cannot be worse than this season.

I am fairly optimistic. I do not think Morey will trade our 3rd pick btw. He may trade future picks but not our current pick because this is our future that he can choose right now in a pretty good draft. At least these are my thoughts.

There is no consensus guy at 3. Better to let some other team overpay you. Unfortunately, the Spurs no longer have 8 and 14.

I am happy they kept the pick. Period.

[Jailblazers7]

I don’t want Morey to trade down - him trying to get cute to “maximize value” makes me nervous. He’s been a very good drafter as our GM so I want him to just take the best player on his board and call it a day.

[mjkvol]

Could there be any more evidence of these things being rigged than this one? Dallas "takes one for the team" in the most obvious way possible, trading a rare generational player to the NBA office favorite, and just by mere chance jumps out of nowhere to get the next potential generational player. Maybe the idea is that it's so obvious - too obvious - that no one could possibly believe it was rigged.

[76thBearCub]

Could there be any more evidence of these things being rigged than this one? Dallas "takes one for the team" in the most obvious way possible, trading a rare generational player to the NBA office favorite, and just by mere chance jumps out of nowhere to get the next potential generational player. Maybe the idea is that it's so obvious - too obvious - that no one could possibly believe it was rigged.

I'll sit here in my tinfoil hat but you need some thick glasses to not see some of the stuff

[the_process]

Could there be any more evidence of these things being rigged than this one? Dallas "takes one for the team" in the most obvious way possible, trading a rare generational player to the NBA office favorite, and just by mere chance jumps out of nowhere to get the next potential generational player. Maybe the idea is that it's so obvious - too obvious - that no one could possibly believe it was rigged.

If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

[sixers hoops]

Could there be any more evidence of these things being rigged than this one? Dallas "takes one for the team" in the most obvious way possible, trading a rare generational player to the NBA office favorite, and just by mere chance jumps out of nowhere to get the next potential generational player. Maybe the idea is that it's so obvious - too obvious - that no one could possibly believe it was rigged.

If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

They didn’t have the assets to trade for Luka, and the initial trade seemed insanely lopsided. Now it’s Luka for AD and Flagg, and the trade makes a lot more sense for Dallas. Dallas only had a 1.8% chance of getting the top pick, but really beat the odds. And now the trade makes more sense for Dallas after we see the full plan unfold.

[PhillyNj]

Give me an ACE!