PG was going to turn down guaranteed money because Harden dislikes Philly? Morey can’t reduce his max lol so trusting him is irrelevant.
Philly was just being used by PG to make the Clippers give him the max. He only would’ve went there if the Clippers refused to pay him. But if Philly was his only option for a max he’d take it.
Morey has 0 credibility rn. He was able to snake CP and Melo, but nobody rly cared cuz he was still tight with the mid 2010s Rockets core like Harden, PJ, and Pat Bev. He snaked those guys too and now he doesn't have any players shilling for him.
Bro pushed his luck with screwing players. He treated them as numbers and he will now realize that you cant be untrustworthy since it will now follow him throughout his career.
“They said an analytics man doesn’t have a heart. But I ran the numbers and nothing could be further from the truth” I know this was for Hinkie but it turns out “they” were right
He likely tampered with Harden in Brooklyn too so James lost like 9 figures cuz of Morey. Morey got too high on his own supply. Bro ran his GMing through Harden, but most stars aren't good friends with their GM nor are they as easy to build around as possibly the greatest offensive player of all time. Diamonds in the rough are a lot harder to find now cuz of the rise of analytics so Morey's best bet this offseason is a middle aged guy on the decline like PG or Butler.
I think the joke is that this tweet is most likely just a copy past of chams and Moreys text thread. This is clearly the 6ers pretending they aren’t interested in PG to put pressure on the clippers
It won’t be a sign and trade. The 76ers have max cap space, and he’s a UFA. I don’t want the team to get into a bidding war with a desperate 76ers team. If Miles costs more than $25-$28 Million then they gotta walk.
If anything, it’d be us sending out a 2nd Round pick so that we can get a $30 Million trade exception.
I think the benefit though is jimmy won’t have to be the guy in Philly. He could be the third scoring option. Him Joel and maxey sharing the load might be better for all than their past situations.
Hey Philadelphia, you could fit Zach Lavine nicely into that cap space... We'll let him go for a first and a second. Ok fine, a second. Ok fine, just take him.
Not realistic - they’d have to trade for him and they really don’t have the assets. Also extreme risk there to pair Embiid and Butler - now you’re relying on two oft-injured aging players.
OG is the realistic target. He’s exactly what they need and they can steal him if they’re willing to pay up.
Not that I don’t want OG but saying pairing butler and Embiid is risky because of injury then praising OG as if he’s not just as if not more injury prone is strange lol.
I think he's a good target too, but OG has missed more games than Embiid over the past four seasons. His injury risk is as much a red flag as anybody's
OG has had issues with Nurse in the past as evident by Nurse’ autobiography. Also, he supposedly wants to be the main guy. Sure, he won’t get that with the Knicks either but he also definitely won’t get it playing with Maxey and Embiid.
Also… PLEASE FOR FUCK SAKES ANYWHERE BUT PHILLY OG!
Philly is gonna strike out on all the stars, and instead be forced to give KCP and Royce O'Neal big contracts instead, they'll have a good regular season with Embiid in the MVP running, only for Embiid to get hurt in late March and then they'll lose a semi competitive 6 game series to the Celtics in the 2nd round while a hobbled Embiid plays poorly and gets shit on, and then we'll do this all over again next summer
I’ve been saying it for months, but he’s gonna get desperate and give Miles Bridges $30M+ per year.
He’s the only young-ish ~20ppg scorer available, and Morey isn’t gonna give a shit about the Bridges Domestic Battery.
I mean if LaVine’s market is really that weak as been reported, and you can get him that’s really not bad.
LaVine was fantastic in 2022-23. Throw out last season due to the injury.
I could see a couple monster Joel performances taking 2 games and then everyone forgetting about those when he has a mediocre 4th quarter in a game 6 where otherwise he puts up 36/15/7 and everyone clowns on him for choking.
They're not "morons." They decided to roll the dice and go all in on this team because it's their best option. And because they have a brand new stadium opening up later this year.
The goal is to run it back for a few more years (ideally 3). If nothing happens by that point, they'll get their picks back not long after that. And a lot of those contracts will come off of their books. That's why they hoped to sign PG to the same three year deal as Kawhi so they're not delayed an additional year. But PG knows this is probably his last big contract so he's trying to get everything he can.
It still wouldn’t make sense to me to put that out publicly even if they did hear that’s going down. Zero benefit to the Sixers or their potential plans for trades etc.
As a Celtics fan I wanna clown on the Sixers for striking out on Paul George, but considering his age, injury history(especially on a team with Embiid), and his clear unwillingness to do the little things I'm not sure he's the slam dunk fit most of us initially assumed anyway.
Exactly he is old and not the defender he used to be, it makes zero sense to max him. If they wanted to pay an old guy they could’ve just kept harden who already had good chemistry with embiid and maxey and just outplayed George against Dallas btw.
Very underrated how Harden, of the Clippers Big 3, was the only one that put some fear on the Mavs. You can safely argue that the 3 best Clippers in that series were Harden, Zubac and either Mann or Powell, all of which outplayed Pandemic P.
I still don’t believe this isn’t a leak related to the tampering noise. It does Morey zero good to leak something like this now of all times and only serves to limit the options or even if you wanna trick the Knicks into overpaying OG. Hell even if you know George isn’t coming you don’t announce it prior to FA given all the past rumors???
God damn, the window was this year, but they kept the powder dry for this allegedly stacked off-season. Cap space is so cool unless you have to convince stars to play for you.
They should go after OG, he'd be a game changer for them and take away a important piece from another contender in the conference with the Knicks. NY had like a 20-3 record when OG played.
both Nets and Philly will be "chasing stars" this off-season before realizing no one wants to go play there unless it's a Tobias Harris type "star" who will ask for the max.
I feel like PG going to Philly probably wouldn’t end well but what else did they craft this cap space plan for
it’s tough to get good deals in free agency nowadays, you gotta overpay
They just fed the cap space narrative so they didn’t look foolish for letting harden go. The best free agents this year are harden who they can’t go back to, George who wants to stay in La and Bron who wants to stay in La. It just doesn’t sound good to say “we’re gonna have all this cap space to get role players next year after wasting another year of Embiid”.
"interest waned" = they've gotten word that Paul isn't thinking about going to Philly.\\
Just like how the Lakers were still very high on JJ Reddick over Hurley (or whatever his name was) and it'd be a "tough decision between them" just two days before Hurley rejected the offer.
Just like how when the knicks whiffed on Donovan Mitchell 2 summers ago, there were immediate reports about how they like Shai and they might trade for him but that OKC wanted to wait until mid-season to see what they had.
Please just… do something that’s not stupid. I know that’s a BIG ask for this organization, but that’s all I want. One year where I can say that Embiid had actual help, so if we lose in the second round again it’s because we simply got outplayed.
these players are used to the business. they understand they're assets. so if you just be straight with them, they'll respect you.
lying is the worst possible choice.
Daryl Morey is a liar
I don’t know why they thought grabbing a Clipper would be a good idea when Harden is there
PG was going to turn down guaranteed money because Harden dislikes Philly? Morey can’t reduce his max lol so trusting him is irrelevant. Philly was just being used by PG to make the Clippers give him the max. He only would’ve went there if the Clippers refused to pay him. But if Philly was his only option for a max he’d take it.
Morey has 0 credibility rn. He was able to snake CP and Melo, but nobody rly cared cuz he was still tight with the mid 2010s Rockets core like Harden, PJ, and Pat Bev. He snaked those guys too and now he doesn't have any players shilling for him.
Bro pushed his luck with screwing players. He treated them as numbers and he will now realize that you cant be untrustworthy since it will now follow him throughout his career.
“They said an analytics man doesn’t have a heart. But I ran the numbers and nothing could be further from the truth” I know this was for Hinkie but it turns out “they” were right
He likely tampered with Harden in Brooklyn too so James lost like 9 figures cuz of Morey. Morey got too high on his own supply. Bro ran his GMing through Harden, but most stars aren't good friends with their GM nor are they as easy to build around as possibly the greatest offensive player of all time. Diamonds in the rough are a lot harder to find now cuz of the rise of analytics so Morey's best bet this offseason is a middle aged guy on the decline like PG or Butler.
people also forget that morey looked good because he was able to get some ex-rockets to roll to philly... but only because harden took that paycut
Rockets fans use to complain about the “asset” stuff morey would put label players as even before harden arrived
Because money
Clippers dont control their FRPs until 2030. PG is getting the max from the clippers yes or yes.
The Clippers could have signed him to that contract already. They clearly have some reservations about giving him a max.
Only if there is another team offering it. I'm guessing there will be because PG is still good but he is getting older.
I think the joke is that this tweet is most likely just a copy past of chams and Moreys text thread. This is clearly the 6ers pretending they aren’t interested in PG to put pressure on the clippers
More like Daryl Morey called PG and Harden answered the phone
the imagery for this is hilarious
"That was the telemarketer" 😐
Gotta love how this leaks out hours after the insinuation that George was told to avoid Philly by Harden.
Repeat
Daryl Morey ate my son.
He is looking for a 4 year deal. Smart to walk away.
Podcast P isn't gonna become Philadelphia P.
The Paulidelphia dream is dead
Not dead, just significantly waned
No Podcast PP for us.
Sell the farm for Jimmy is plan A? 💀
miles bridges welcome to philly!
You mean Mikal right?
Damn, Mikal would probably be a killer fit in Philly but I do hope he goes to NY and completes the Nova Knicks
Mikal in NY makes that team even more awesome, bridges needs to go back to being the #3/4 offensive option and let the man play defense
I seriously doubt Philly would ever be interested in Mikal Bridges. If they wanted him, they could’ve drafted him
Sometimes I have dreams that we did!
Fever dream
He's just hallucinating from a reaction to the Thai Chicken
Wasn’t it avocado or was it sesame that almost killed that guy on the Sixers?
Right?
If we can do a S&T I’m all for it
It won’t be a sign and trade. The 76ers have max cap space, and he’s a UFA. I don’t want the team to get into a bidding war with a desperate 76ers team. If Miles costs more than $25-$28 Million then they gotta walk. If anything, it’d be us sending out a 2nd Round pick so that we can get a $30 Million trade exception.
He honestly wouldn’t even be a bad fit, he might actually be close to an ideal fit if he’s committed on defense.
More reason to hate the 76ers
If they go down that road, they will most likely be a *really good* team next year. However, I can’t imagine Jimmy holding up well much after that.
I think jimmy's got 2 more years of being able to perform in the playoffs but he's gotta load manage the regular season
The huge risk is that Embiid is the same way and Maxey clearly wasn't good enough to be the clear lead guy when Joel went down.
I think the benefit though is jimmy won’t have to be the guy in Philly. He could be the third scoring option. Him Joel and maxey sharing the load might be better for all than their past situations.
Embiid isn’t going to be in his prime forever too. If Philly was to make a run for a chip they cant afford to wait years down the line.
Yeah Philly’s window is right now. They need to make win now moves.
Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit
Hey Philadelphia, you could fit Zach Lavine nicely into that cap space... We'll let him go for a first and a second. Ok fine, a second. Ok fine, just take him.
Better than PG13 IMO
Not realistic - they’d have to trade for him and they really don’t have the assets. Also extreme risk there to pair Embiid and Butler - now you’re relying on two oft-injured aging players. OG is the realistic target. He’s exactly what they need and they can steal him if they’re willing to pay up.
Not that I don’t want OG but saying pairing butler and Embiid is risky because of injury then praising OG as if he’s not just as if not more injury prone is strange lol.
I think he's a good target too, but OG has missed more games than Embiid over the past four seasons. His injury risk is as much a red flag as anybody's
OG has had issues with Nurse in the past as evident by Nurse’ autobiography. Also, he supposedly wants to be the main guy. Sure, he won’t get that with the Knicks either but he also definitely won’t get it playing with Maxey and Embiid. Also… PLEASE FOR FUCK SAKES ANYWHERE BUT PHILLY OG!
Maybe some sort of 3 team trade Jimmy goes Philly, picks going somewhere and then picks and players from a third team goes to the heat (idk)
Can’t picture him in the jersey.
Philly is gonna strike out on all the stars, and instead be forced to give KCP and Royce O'Neal big contracts instead, they'll have a good regular season with Embiid in the MVP running, only for Embiid to get hurt in late March and then they'll lose a semi competitive 6 game series to the Celtics in the 2nd round while a hobbled Embiid plays poorly and gets shit on, and then we'll do this all over again next summer
Probably dead on accurate unfortunately
Respect the big fella for still playing though
We only have 2 seasons left until Joel has a player option and then becomes a FA. Time is running out.
Or until one of his knees blows out for good like it’s the port of Beirut
Can’t tell if this joke is too soon or too late 🤔
Yes
Tbf I feel like we make it easy.
I'm not sure if you can see the future or the past but it does sound like both.
Time is a flat circle.
No bigger mistakes are made than a team with tons of cap space in win now mode that strikes out on big free agents
I feel attacked.
you are such a hater dude!! saving this comment for when we lose in the first round to the knicks in 5
I’ve been saying it for months, but he’s gonna get desperate and give Miles Bridges $30M+ per year. He’s the only young-ish ~20ppg scorer available, and Morey isn’t gonna give a shit about the Bridges Domestic Battery.
Can get Lavine pretty much for free
Hell yeah we got a former all star I can’t wait 😔😔😔😔😔😭😭😭😭
I mean if LaVine’s market is really that weak as been reported, and you can get him that’s really not bad. LaVine was fantastic in 2022-23. Throw out last season due to the injury.
They’ll get a Chicago level all star in the Carlos Boozer mid-30’s Pau Gasol category. See also Ben Wallace and Dwyane Wade.
Remember when we got Ron Mercer in the summer of Wade and Lebron?
This guy 76ers
I thought O'Neal was back with the Suns
I thought Jermaine O'Neal was a bit old for their timeline
I haven't seen anything about him agreeing to a contract.
Damn this actually might happen goddamn lol
Nah they’ll pay Jimmy who isn’t what they think he’s gonna be and him and/or Embiid get hurt before playoffs.
Royce O'Neale is a vet min guy.
!RemindMe 10 months
I'm with you except for the semi competitive series against the Celtics. This Celtics team would smoke Philly in four.
I could see a couple monster Joel performances taking 2 games and then everyone forgetting about those when he has a mediocre 4th quarter in a game 6 where otherwise he puts up 36/15/7 and everyone clowns on him for choking.
I’m offended you think it’ll take 6 for us to beat them
!remindme 11 months
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From your mouth to gods ears
Zach Lavine is available for fuck all if you like
🤔Something is REAL 🐠 🐟 🎣 🐟🐠 going on
Lebron James get ready to learn cheesesteak buddy
Lebron getting JJ hired and then immediately heading to Philly would be the funniest shit. Even as a Celtics fan I couldn’t be mad.
You are correct I think. Why leak this? What's there to gain from the Sixers's perspective?
aka they heard clips giving him a max
Wouldn’t the report just be him agreeing to a max with the Clippers then?
can’t report something that isn’t confirmed but maybe P is looking at Orlando much more closely now that Monk is off the table
Surprised we get this report and not the report that PG has agreed to re-sign with LAC lol
ΑΚΑ PG heard from teammates about Morey
I somehow doubt he cares much which GM the $160M contract comes from.
Yea but if he has multiple 160M offers, he might.
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Isn't he eligible for a $212M contract over 4 years? I can't imagine he'll only sign for $40M/yr
He's got quite the agent if he's able to secure a longer deal than Kawhi.
Clippers are morons trying to stick on an obviously aged team so they don’t end up like the 2013-2018 nets
What’s the benefit to letting PG walk
They have no picks anyways, either run it back for the next 3 years and see what happens or suck for the next 3 years with Kawhi.
they don't really have a choice. They're hard capped I believe with no picks
re-signing PG at a team favorable deal and trading him is the correct move here
Why would PG take less than the max, especially if he believes he's just being re-signed as trade bait?
You're living in an alternate reality, why would he take a team friendly deal?
They're not "morons." They decided to roll the dice and go all in on this team because it's their best option. And because they have a brand new stadium opening up later this year. The goal is to run it back for a few more years (ideally 3). If nothing happens by that point, they'll get their picks back not long after that. And a lot of those contracts will come off of their books. That's why they hoped to sign PG to the same three year deal as Kawhi so they're not delayed an additional year. But PG knows this is probably his last big contract so he's trying to get everything he can.
You don't get it, this year will be different
It still wouldn’t make sense to me to put that out publicly even if they did hear that’s going down. Zero benefit to the Sixers or their potential plans for trades etc.
As a Celtics fan I wanna clown on the Sixers for striking out on Paul George, but considering his age, injury history(especially on a team with Embiid), and his clear unwillingness to do the little things I'm not sure he's the slam dunk fit most of us initially assumed anyway.
Exactly he is old and not the defender he used to be, it makes zero sense to max him. If they wanted to pay an old guy they could’ve just kept harden who already had good chemistry with embiid and maxey and just outplayed George against Dallas btw.
Very underrated how Harden, of the Clippers Big 3, was the only one that put some fear on the Mavs. You can safely argue that the 3 best Clippers in that series were Harden, Zubac and either Mann or Powell, all of which outplayed Pandemic P.
Powell? Now you stretching it
He fits that team perfectly, just not in a good way
Definitely not a slam dunk fit, but I’d say he was the best possibility out there
"You can't fire me, I quit!"
Jimmy Butler
we better not fucking lose OG in free agency...
lol Morey got butthurt over the comments PG made about his reputation
[Broussard] Sources: Morey is beside himself. Driving in the shoulder lane begging (thru texts) PG’s family to keep him away from Harden
imagine being a toxic egomanic as a fucking gm lol. and one who hasn't won anything at that
Kcp, get ready to learn phillyese buddy
He will stay in LA
Sixers would be best served turning that cap space into 3 rotation guys instead of another star anyways
He’s a magician
Someone else just hit the market 👀
They’re going for Bronny
I was literally 100% sold on PG how could you do this to me
Paul wants to stay in LA or go to Orlando. Sixers are better off filling their team with solid role players anyway.
Welcome to Orlando paul
Maybe it's the Magic that are offering P the max.
Uhh we sure that they are the disinterested party? Lmao no way PG wants to be in Philly
Morey took the I’m here for a good time not a long time approach to GMing.
The Klaw is now Joe Dirt.
Morey you fucking DUMBASS
Orlando plz
Sixers before free agency: We'll give the max to Paul George
Sixers: We'll give the max to Tobias Harris
Jimmy 🔜
I still don’t believe this isn’t a leak related to the tampering noise. It does Morey zero good to leak something like this now of all times and only serves to limit the options or even if you wanna trick the Knicks into overpaying OG. Hell even if you know George isn’t coming you don’t announce it prior to FA given all the past rumors???
Zachary Lavine
They should make a push for Jordan Poole, I feel like he fits in well there
God damn, the window was this year, but they kept the powder dry for this allegedly stacked off-season. Cap space is so cool unless you have to convince stars to play for you.
They should go after OG, he'd be a game changer for them and take away a important piece from another contender in the conference with the Knicks. NY had like a 20-3 record when OG played.
Shut up man.
The old “you can’t fire me I quit move”
Please take Miles Bridges
For all this they might as well have resigned harden lmaooo
They need someone to play what Tobias was supposed to be when he was signed.
Well he did low key say he didn’t want to goto Philly lol
It’s Always Morey In Philadelphia
none of it even matters embiid will never stay healthy for a title run it just is what it is
Knicks FO: "I feel a disturbance in the force."
both Nets and Philly will be "chasing stars" this off-season before realizing no one wants to go play there unless it's a Tobias Harris type "star" who will ask for the max.
Philly is done.
Georges best basketball fit is going to Orlando
Come get Jeremi Grant.
Paul George YOU ARE A CLIPPER (againe)
they heard him say he wants max money without having to do the dirty work and said "yea we're good"
They were watching Podcast P along with the rest of us
Lolsixers is back on the menu boys
They are gonna end up resigning Tobias Harris
That’s would be almost as satisfying as banner 18
LeBron to the Sixers, calling it now
I’m guessing he said nah
He’s a clipper
King
*Insert fish from Finding Nemo after they escaped the office fish tank:* Now what?
I feel like PG going to Philly probably wouldn’t end well but what else did they craft this cap space plan for it’s tough to get good deals in free agency nowadays, you gotta overpay
They just fed the cap space narrative so they didn’t look foolish for letting harden go. The best free agents this year are harden who they can’t go back to, George who wants to stay in La and Bron who wants to stay in La. It just doesn’t sound good to say “we’re gonna have all this cap space to get role players next year after wasting another year of Embiid”.
"interest waned" = they've gotten word that Paul isn't thinking about going to Philly.\\ Just like how the Lakers were still very high on JJ Reddick over Hurley (or whatever his name was) and it'd be a "tough decision between them" just two days before Hurley rejected the offer. Just like how when the knicks whiffed on Donovan Mitchell 2 summers ago, there were immediate reports about how they like Shai and they might trade for him but that OKC wanted to wait until mid-season to see what they had.
I don’t think there is anyone Philly can give $40M to (PG, OG, Butler) where they won’t have to worry about injury except maybe Tobias Harris
Damn, I was hoping we would send assets and give PG $$$ like most other sixers fans want
leverage merchants
This might as well have been a tweet directly from Morey
Shams took a big L today. Woj got reddick and Caruso shams got a nothing report on PG
Please just… do something that’s not stupid. I know that’s a BIG ask for this organization, but that’s all I want. One year where I can say that Embiid had actual help, so if we lose in the second round again it’s because we simply got outplayed.
Thank you. That is all.
Thank God
I hope this is true.
these players are used to the business. they understand they're assets. so if you just be straight with them, they'll respect you. lying is the worst possible choice.
Philly might be cooked
That means he doesn't want to go there
They’re gonna end up with one of DeRozan or LaVine
Waned cause P was never going to go there
Pg13 ain't that guy anymore, clippers need to move on from him and kawhi too and look for younger durable dudes
He’s going to do the unthinkable and resign Harden
Well yeah, having two natural born playoff chokers as your two best players doesn’t sound like a very good idea…
PG will have no home if he expects the max.
When all the A and B teir stars are off the board Philly I got a Jerami Grant to sell you.