The Sixers Are ALREADY In Trouble...

[@JayTeeGR]

Guys, please pay me 1 million per year, and i will come and sit at the bench and smile while clapping. I'm far cheaper compared to others...just think about it for a sec. 😘

[@abw1317]

Bro ain't even smiling on the bench lol

[@sndchamp9949]

On everything Imma avg 30 claps a point 4 high fives a quarter and 6 LETS GOOO a game

[@MrE_]

I'll hustle to pass them their water and towels bro. I'll do it for 500k

[@JayTeeGR]

@@MrE_ 😂

[@deshaunreid7728]

The funny thing is they're gonna get hurt later in the year anyway

[@MihoyMinoy-si8fb]

And get owned by their daddy the Celtics

[@youngty7174]

​@MihoyMinoy-si8fb you just wanted to sneak the Celtics in did you?🗿🗿🗿

[@MihoyMinoy-si8fb]

@@youngty7174 “It’s not a rivalry, they always beat us.” Joel Embiid (straight from the horses mouth 😅)

[@Casskgk]

They’ll choke a series away either way it goes.

[@MrE_]

Yea we have seen how load managing does not work. Kawhi, pg, etc have all proved this

[@malenko316]

For me, the simplest solution for the league is to put a minimum floor on % of games played for players to be eligible for mid, max or super max contracts and extensions - while at the same time hitting their teams with equal % dead cap to push them into and over the cap and second apron levels. If players like Embiid and owners in general care about anything, its money.

[@mynickisrick1478]

This of yours is a nice idea! Actually I (vaguely interested in the NBA, so I don't count as a true fan) find difficult to think that a player MUST play if he CAN; as far as I understand, it's for the quality of the show (if I pay a ticket to watch two teams play, I have a bunch of player in mind I would be upset to not see), but what dedication can a player who's forced to play have? I think in every sport calculations on resting are made... why is the NBA so focused on "must-play"? Isn't this narrative detrimental to a true team sport?

[@warwolf88]

yeah for sure😊

[@blueredlover1060]

Would this idea be based on the previous season or contract? Some players get legit injuries and it feels wrong to cut their money when they were legitimately injured.

[@jasonsmith6536]

The whole championship thing is fine but I think people forget the league exist because of the fans . Sports are literally ENTERTAINMENT. If it was all about championships they’d just have a tournament every year and call it quits. But it’s an opportunity for them to go city to city get paid super well and provide something people enjoy.

[@cyclingpanda1]

It's not like the Clippers haven't tried this strategy with Paul George

[@brushylake4606]

Even when Embiid is healthy in the playoffs, he chokes. It isn't like he's played lights out when healthy. In his last four years, age 37-40, John Stockton played 82, 82, 82, and 82 games. As a 39 year old, MJ played 82 games. In his age 40 and 41 seasons, Kareem played 80 and 74 games. It was unusual for stars to play fewer than 70-80 games per season unless they had significant injuries.

[@tysonkrehnke2835]

Since the NBA doesn't really have an injured reserve list, would inventing one fix this. In the NFL you have to miss 8 games or half the season. You could do something similar in the nba. Just food for thought.

[@TaintedStaff]

Embiid's knees made out of jelly

[@HoopEnthusiasts]

More like blubber 😂

[@MihoyMinoy-si8fb]

I’ve seen jelly hold its weight. More like wet tissue paper.

[@Red_Ryan_Red]

Fuck that, force them to slash ticket prices. That should scare the teams abusing the system.

[@straife1]

They should simply have playoff suspensions for those who sit out regular season games. Have the league investigate when star players sit out healthy and make it have real world changes on the playoffs. Embid would have been on the court if it would cost him a playoff game suspension.

[@w00t777]

they would just play their stars for 30 seconds and sub them out 😅

[@Nightlingbolt]

@@w00t777 So just mandate a certain number of minutes! It’s not that hard!

[@shanook.-.]

todays "bigger faster stronger" athletes need to play LESS games? smh

[@DiversityJackson]

But when they do play and pass ya'lls idol's records, ya'll call it "stat padding"

[@KGJuice]

Don’t shorten the season it’s called “pay cuts” we need to stop over paying players who can’t perform and for fill certain games. You not eligible to for a super max if you never won a major season award and cannot complete 65 games

[@freack3333]

This is a stupid idea but i'll post it anyway. Just take the player's salary and divide that by 82. So for Embiid it would be around 627K a game. Every game he misses due to "load management" or what ever they want to call it, and not due to legitimate injuries as determined by a medical professional paid by the NBA and not the team. Just dock that amount of money off of his salary. Or better yet its that and deduct 10% off of every roster spot and couches and training staff salary. As for the team you multiply that amount by say 10 and that goes against their available cap in some form, the punishment should be severe enough so that the team stops putting their hand in the proverbial cookie jar.

[@arronmatsuyama5417]

How about treating it like a job you don't play? You don't get paid

[@timothylam2382]

I think the solution to this problem is pretty simple just added a rule to all players who took the max contract as of right now who making 50 million+ dollars should played atleast 65 game for at least 3 minutes each per season, if not the players will be fined with 5 millions dollars per game they played under 65 games. I think that we should treat them well but people are also working hard and pay 350 + dollars every time to watch these star play too and also 65 game is the standard to qualify for a reward which is reasonable also being payed a lot and not trying is really gonna to make a lot of fan quitting the NBA

[@abw1317]

Fans have to pay hundreds while Embiid gets s front row seat for free lol

[@johndebono1870]

The problem with this tactic is that the FO is acting as Embiid is young LeBron who can singlehandedly take a mediocre team to the ECF. He is just as guilty of blowing a series as anyone over the last 7 years and letting him sit out of high pressure regular season games isn't going to help develop those clutch instincts. It seems like a classic Morey/Process era 76ers move to overcomplicate team dynamics.

[@nikobellic2515]

I’d be so pissed/sad if I were a Sixers fan, like how you supposed to believe in this franchise?

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

I feel your pain. - Dolphins fan

[@freshnaproductions2105]

I know Embiid said he doesn’t want to win MVP, but can we just talk about if he misses 17 games consistently for the rest of his career, he’ll never make All-NBA ever again? It just sounds weird to me.

[@HoopEnthusiasts]

Ehh, playoffs matter more, Kobe has bunch off all defensive selections and isn’t even a top 5 perimeter defenders for like 2/3 of his career.

[@robr4562]

He's never played more than 68 games in a season even when he was doing back to backs. And people will act all suprised when he's injured for the playoffs again, because load management DOES NOT WORK.

[@freshnaproductions2105]

@@HoopEnthusiasts Well, he can also get injured in the playoffs. He’s just too injury prone to predict if he’ll play fully even though he doesn’t play 65+ games on purpose.

[@michaelpaullang4401]

@@HoopEnthusiastsif you do that Jordan don’t deserve his dpoy 😂

[@michaelpaullang4401]

Exactly I think they should lower it 55-60 because guys are just getting hurt

[@JayCail]

As a Suxxers fan since 1975 I can confidently tell you that when I heard they used their cap space for Paul George I instantly knew this was a waste of money since he can't stay healthy and that he and Embiid would likely play less than 25 games together all year.

[@kingdeedee]

Embiid has this luxury because he’s on a top team in the Eastern Conference. If the Sixers were in the West they’d absolutely miss the playoff cut entirely a couple seasons

[@nathanvanderwerff145]

They could change the first round of the playoffs to be all games played at the higher seed's city. Could use the excuse that it is to shorten the least important round of the playoffs and owners would care more about having all of those games at home and teams would care more to not have that disadvantage of playing all the games away. It also makes being a top 4 team extremely important compared to being a 5+ team.

[@WolfsDE]

One of the solutions is to get rid of the stupid play-in tournament. It gives too many teams hope that shouldn't be in the playoffs. Either you are good enough to be 1-8 or you aren't. The lottery should be set once the playoffs start without the play-in. They can add 2 more teams or 4 more teams over the next decade and I will still feel the same way. Either play good enough to get in, or go home. They have 30 teams and 2/3 of the league getting a chance to play post season basketball. If they do add 4 more teams eventually (Seattle and Vegas the obvious 2 who will be first, with I think probably Kansas City and either Louisville/Cincinnati or Pittsburgh being the other). I still think it should be 16 in the playoffs and 18 in the lottery. Now, I would be okay if they expanded the playoffs at 36-40 teams if they ever try to expand the league that far. I wouldn't be against the play-in tournament at that point. Right now, I am just not a fan of it. I think it helps give guys an excuse to miss more games because they have more of a chance to be in the post season. If they never go past Seattle and Vegas for expansion, I am not a fan of the play-in. Guys use it as an excuse to be divas.

[@ScuffTuff]

They should really just make the season 72 games instead of 82. Play every team in the opposite conference twice and every team in your own conference 3 times. Take out the back to backs to better distribute that 72 over the season so guys can also get more rest between games and lower the 65 game rule to 55 to match.

[@sugarjay.cherry7823]

I hate the idea of lowering the amount of games because I really want to see the 73 W record by GSW broken.

[@chrisclemens7869]

Suspend them for playoff games. If a player is found to have 'load managed' five games that they could have played, they get suspended for one game in the first round. The competitive advantage for resting players in the regular season would disappear real quick.

[@smz257]

I respect alot of perspectives on this issue, but I have to say its like people magically forget that for w.e. reason these players have consistently proven that their bodies don't last the full season grind, and when they are always struggling thru injuries in the playoffs everyone's running around like a chicken with their head cut off wondering why? So by dealing with that issue, they have to sacrifice somewhere, yet each choice carries the same response, it makes no sense. I don't fully love "load management" but I think it has to be said that the Raptors with Kawhi were a big part of it being a thing and we got the most inarguable result you could imagine out of it. I guess general fans and/or the media/league didn't care about it as much because it wasn't trending yet and it was a star player in a "small" market team (Toronto Raptors are the 4th largest market behind NYC, LA, and Chicago). It came up here and there in the mainstream discussion, but as a fan watching Kawhi for the first time it made me disappointed to not see him in games in the regular season, and I wondered how the guys on the team felt about a sort of "favouritism" for their replacement star. But everyone acknowledges that he would not have been able to deliver one of the greatest playoff performances of all time and a championship if we hadn't done that, let alone be available for all the games. He was even labouring thru alot of the games thru out the run, if he had to do that same labouring thru out the season, he may not have made it to the playoffs for real. I argue that the Raptors laid the model down for how to do it without completely destroying the product because we went all in on getting that championship with Kawhi and there was no way we were gonna mess that up. Maybe Nick Nurse is in the best position to handle that trajectory once again in Philly. Keep in mind, I don't care for Embiid or Philly, but that just might be the best example.

[@kwykwyk8447]

Just cap the percentage of games available in the playoffs to the regular ... If you're only available for 50% of the games during the regular season for health reasons, then you're capped at 50% of playoff games

[@HoopsAficionado]

The Sixers have put together a very good team with Embiid, PG and Maxey leading the way. Complementary players like Martin, Oubre, Drummond and Lowry are also valuable. They'll need to do all they can to stay fit for the play-offs.

[@finnianfanning3136]

There’s two solutions I can think of but neither are very good. 1. Make it an actual league 82 games most points wins i.e no playoffs but every game matters. Thats obviously not good but yeah. 2. Halve the amount of play off teams to top 4 from each conference. Means you can’t come 10th and still win the championship in theory. Again, not very good but stuff like that to make it less rewarding to essentially sit players. You could also make the bottom teams better somehow.

[@lucaCPT]

What if a new rule said that unless a player played at least X regular season matches, he couldn’t play in the playoffs? (With exceptions due to specific situations) Would that be silly?

[@KingKai992]

What about adding a first round bye for the top two seeds in each conference?

[@jondoe4624]

Player salary should be tied to number of games played. They got lazy

[@ViVoUpTop]

Another banger from my boy Tucker

[@jkain1977]

I think the league should eliminate the play in

[@Mad_Mace06]

Genuine question, is he an mvp candidate if he’s not going to be eligible for mvp?

[@SkylarColtenen]

Se "Netflix and Chill" non implica un dibattito su quale programma guardare per primo, siete almeno usciti insieme💖

[@brushylake4606]

Is the Paul George free agent signing the first free agent signing where both teams involved are worse off than before?

[@shinriko4334]

Instead of fines take draft picks.

[@shaazandrade5069]

If all else fails ngl build around Tyrese in a couple years

[@amazingsil]

wonder if synergy will be a concern

[@HoopEnthusiasts]

I think they should load manage tbh. Nobody cares if Embiid and PG are playing November games or not, if they don’t make the playoffs healthy what’s the point of all the new acquisitions

[@jonnygalante3623]

Load managing Kawhi and PG and Embiid and other players is what is ruining the NBA. If we are g9nna load manage the stars, might as well skip the regular season and just have the playoffs

[@victorhsluiz]

@@jonnygalante3623 or maybe they should just change the schedule, because 82 games is absolutely crazy and every single year at least half of the teams in playoffs have injury problems. Makes no sense to me to play 4 times against 10 teams in a season.

[@ididntaskverified3663]

Nobody also cares if they don't make it past the second round

[@jonhoge153]

​@@victorhsluizpersonally, I'm absolutely ok with a season length that makes durability an important ability to have as a star.

[@HoopEnthusiasts]

@@jonhoge153dumbass logic, if the NBA season was 60 games maybe guys like drose and Kawhi would have an extended career

[@SoliGloria1]

Simple fix, tie play to salary.

[@warwolf88]

it should be random who u play in the playoffs then your seeding doesnt matter😊

[@lenshandcraftedwoodsigns6033]

So NOBODY CARES if they don't play 65 or so games. But The owners care, because they would loose revenue, that is why they don't want to shorten the season. The league cares, because they are promoting the brand. The fans care, because we want to see them play, especially when we pay to go to the games . They should care, because they should be eligible for bigger contracts. And if we all careless about what happens, the NBA will be the next MLB, with fewer and fewer watching and caring. But hey, NOBODY CARES.

[@sleeping3158]

Take draft picks away or push them all the way to back of draft

[@taleweaver34]

Also thanks from all the people who scrape to be able to watch 1 game live in the arena only to not see load managing star player

[@Miximized]

They know they gotta make the playoffs right?

[@one2many1030]

Lol, regular season wins and seeding is ALWAYS important in the NBA. If you're NOT a Top 3 seed in your respective conference, then it's 97% certain you WON'T win the championship. The only 4-seed to win a championship was the 1969 Celtics, the 5-seed never won it all, the only 6-seed was the 1995 Rockets, and both the 7-seed or the 8-seed never won it all. If you're not at least Top 3 in your conference, then you have NO SHOT at the NBA title

[@Nightlingbolt]

I mean, the Heat made the Finals as an 8-seed a couple years back. That’s likely the model the Sixers want to emulate, though they have to actually WIN enough games to be an 8-seed, not to mention survive the Play-In.

[@michaelpaullang4401]

It’s different times now

[@one2many1030]

@@Nightlingbolt And what happened, the Heat lost in 5 games and it wasn't even that close tbh; so just making the Finals is the goal now lmao

[@one2many1030]

@@michaelpaullang4401 how is it different now when in the last 29 years, only teams that were a Top 3 seed has won a championship?????

[@michaelpaullang4401]

@@one2many1030 we are in the time of parody, Celtics really went last year because there team is one of best built teams in history, if they nuggest don’t run into the top mabee wolves first and face mavs in conference finals Denver probably in the finals, high seeding doesn’t guarantee you a championship anymore especially with the play in added, when u gotta okay Lebron James as a 8th seed, sac was better seed then the warriors but what happened same shit starting to bro come different

[@bigo4229]

Most vanishing player

[@yoCBOOGiE]

Philly the new Clippers

[@taleweaver34]

So this is what the best in modern sports medicine gets you eh? (Also looking at kawhi)

[@JigsawBell]

Sixers are the Clippers. Neither team is going anywhere.

[@errolpatterson8406]

Process 2.0

[@jamyiss723]

did the sixers win against the kincks

[@robr4562]

Embiid's knees are cooked. He will never be 100%, no matter how much rest he has. Let alone be able to play back to backs. Could philly be honest about it? Sure... if ownership want to lose ticket sales. This is at least partly about money, IMO

[@garyinternet5436]

This comment is the truth. Embiid's knees are the elephant in the room. Nobody wants to just come out and say it. "Our title hopes revolve around whether Joel Embiid's knees can survive the regular season." That's all there is to it.

[@symeoncarter8144]

This the first time in a long time I've had to dislike a video from you. Did he just say he is in favor of lowering the games to 70 ?

[@future62]

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[@w00t777]

if the league gives sixers a hard time, they can just play Embiid for 30 seconds and sub him out for th rest of the game 😅😅

[@TheRealTruth533]

Why do NBA teams continue to invest and pay large scale contracts to players who sit out ganes, are always on load Management , have injury history and spend more time yapping on podcast than actually playing games. I have no respect for a lot of today's players i stioped watching the NBA I can't support these cowards.

[@shawnweddle3002]

As a longtime truster of the process and Embiid fan, him not playing the opener is ridiculous. They need chemistry if they want to win a playoff series this year, let alone a championship.

[@victorhsluiz]

Yeah, now they only have 81 more games to find chemistry, it's over.

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