Where's the " smelly junkie strung out on dope with an incurable disease who hangs out at Kennedy's asking for change and a snack box watching the college student and middle class man eat with tears in his eyes not tripping if he doesn't wake up tomorrow" option, because I know a couple of teams that fit this description?
Conley for Rubio/2017 1st then
The problem with this analogy is that the overwhelming majority of these broke college kids who "dream" never even achieve what the middle aged man with no future has. At least he has a home and a job to work 60 hours at...that college kid is somewhere applying to starbucks trying to get 20 hours and an efficiency apartment...
The 76ers have been bad for a long time and their is no hope for them to get much better since their franchise big man can't play a full season...he can't even play the second game of a back to back...
The Lakers have been a lottery team for what...3 years now...and they are about to be a lottery team again WHILE paying Deng and Mozgov around 130 million combined for the next few years...
The celtics seem like they are in a good space...until you realize they haven't won a playoff series since brad stevens got their...their best two players are 30 and about to be 30...they have so many draft picks they don't even have enough roster spots for them...and they need to make a decision on rather to pay a dude barely tall enough to ride the rides at six flags 200 million or let him walk...
The kings couldn't build around a dominate big man and now they about to try to build around a buck toothed undersized shooting guard...
Memphis is a perennial playoff team...which is what these teams in the lottery are trying to be...so why would memphis purposely go backwards only so they can try to get back to where they are now?
The reason why it's a problem is because this isn't gonna last forever. Z-bo and TA are 35. Gasol is 32 and declining defensively. How much do you really think this is gonna last? And when you're content with staying at neutral, you make short-sighted decisions that in turn has long-term ramifications: Chandler Parsons, 8 years worth of terrible draft picks, not trading Koufos who was a FA to Cleveland to recoup your pick, and collect an extra one, basically pigeon-holed into giving Conley $150 Million because you have no talent after him. shyt, the Grizzlies cut Troy Williams, who just dropped six three-pointers for Houston the other day, for Toney fukking Douglas, who's was out the league in December, and is back out of the league now.
The Celtics are winning while getting the no.1 pick in the draft. That's.........a great fukking position to be in.
Embiid and Simmons is more bad luck than incompetence in the F.O
This isn't the NFL or baseball when you can get hot and win a title. Grizz were not good last year, and they've been below .500 since the New year. They're 5 games over, and the roster is old. No team, except maybe the Kings or the Knicks, would trade their situation for ours. And the ironic part about all this is Chris Wallace said the worst place to be in the NBA is mediocre and in the middle, yet, here we are..