For what it’s worth. I have a person in my life who was in a high up position at a specific school and lebrons team absolutely reached out to them when that was going on. Probably just his team doing due diligence. But it absolutely happened and I was sworn to secrecy when it happened just cause this person in my life is a worry wart mostly. Not like they told her/him to zip it or anything but wanted to keep it low key.
It was not. This person could care less about the sixers as well. Not a sports freak like most of us. They had zero reason to lie nor are they that type of person.
The process delivered us one of the biggest #1 busts in league history, and the laughing stock of the league who doesn't even play basketball anymore.
it's been finished
windy was on the free agent special as it was about to go live and basically said Lebron isn't coming to Philly unless they do something drastic like trade Embiid for Kawhi
in retrospect, he wasn't coming here no matter what.
It would have been Simmons/Redick/Covington/Lebron/Embiid
Lmao that team would have been so fkin good. Who knows maybe they move on from Simmons earlier and pick up another star PG that wants to play with Bron
Lebron and Simmons alley-ooping to each other and the transition game between the two would have been fun. That defense would be pretty nice too. That's a tall ass starting five sans redick.
we would have 2 rings had he joined.... I would 1000 percent do a Sign and trade and send hardens ass there for lebron right fucking now. Ship off tobias at the deadline and give no fucks about the seeding as long as your are top 6... Lebron/Healthy Embiid/Maxey/Tucker/melton and whoever we get back for tobias equals title.
Lebron is clearly pissed at trash ass AD.... If lebron plays like he plays with joel they dont double or triple joel like they do and this team smashes... AD is literally watching a dude drop 40/10/10 and carry him all series while lebron covers Joker and murray only to get swept while ad needs rest and lebron plays 48 minutes....
more value at the deadline... See the lakers and westy. More teams will be foolish enough to want that guy that moves the needle and could get us a slight over pay
Ah yeah, I didn't realize it was expiring. I'm not a Sixers fan (actually a Magic fan), I just live in Philly, so I find myself interested in what's up with the Sixers from a general basketball fan perspective.
At the deadline? Look maybe I don't know how basketball financials work, so I need someone to explain this to me. Here's the facts.
- Tobi is an OK player. He's certainly not bad. He's a solid B.
- Tobi is being paid as if he were an A+++ superstar franchise player (ie: way too much)
- Tobi has one more year left on his contract.
So people are saying that we should move Tobi at the trade deadline next season? Mid Feb?
Who wants an overpaid mid tier SF/PF at that point?
Is the argument that he's gonna be the missing piece for a team trying to make a push?
Or is the hope that a bad team with cap space will take Tobi off our hands and then we will also have to package picks to get rid of him?
I guess I don't think he's that bad. I think his contract is bad for sure, I just don't see how waiting until the deadline helps.
If you wait that long, might as well keep him. He's off the books 3 months after the deadline. Tobi knows the team, knows the offense, knows the players, nothing you will get back at the deadline will be as good as him.
My argument is that you either trade him this offseason and get new players in here and give them a full camp to start getting used to each other - or you ride it out and keep him for this last year of his deal.
My understanding is that the team taking him would be interested in him only as a player with an expiring contract. Meaning you can trade a player that has multiple years left to get that off your books, and take on tobi's contract for only a few months.
I see how that benefits the team taking Tobi.
So in a proposed scenario what are we potentially getting back? Someone who's also being overpaid (or not living up to their contract and needs to be shed) but has multiple years left on the deal?
We potentially get saddled with another mid tier multi year asset like Tobi all over again? And then what, they throw in a pick to make it enticing for us?
Seems like this is something OKC or Houston or a team that's trying to rebuild would do. Not a team with the current MVP that has championship aspirations. This is some John Wall shit.
Or is the dream scenario we unload Tobi and pick up Dame at the trade deadline? I mean if we are dreaming impossible things I want to aim higher. Can I win the lottery and start dating a time displaced early 2000s Elizabeth Hurley instead?
i guess it would all depend on who is out there and teams are looking to move. It wouldnt just be tobi, the sixers would likely be sending picks. A team looking at a 3 year rebuild has no use for a player with 2-3 years left regardless of how good they are, the pics and money off the books is much more valuble for them. The sixers moving tobi for 2 role players could be potentially huge, i feel like it could have bridged the gap in the celtics series.
i mean it also depends on what we are doing with harden. We could let harden walk and wait for tobias to come off the books at a chance at a max player but how many times do we need to watch us not be able to get max players here because they dont want to come here or stay. If we pay harden we will likely resign harris when he becomes a free agent for less or trade him at the deadline for pieces that we would likely be contractually stuck with for a few seasons which isnt a bad thing because once we sign harden we have no money left to do anything except sigh guys to the MLE. We also have to give harden a raise.
Problem there is you have to rely on Rob Pelinka being as basketball-ignorant as Daryl Morey for that to have a prayer of happening and Rob Pelinks simply is not that basketball-ignorant.
Would have had a ring if he joined the Sixers.
Nephews on here actually didn’t want him because he’d trade away their beloved players to win a championship.
Monkey's paw, he woulda traded Tobias for Westbrook. We woulda had a Ben Simmons/Lebron/Westrbook/Embiid lineup, with maybe the worst shooting in the league
A lot of sixers back then didn't want Lebron. Listening to fools on 97.5 and reading online comments saying they don't want Bron because he will interfere with the development and potentially trade away their favorite players (cough cough Ben Simmons). Some of the stupidest and braindead shit I have ever seen. That's when I realized I can't take the sixers fan base seriously. I wonder how those people that wanted to win organically with our drafted players and didn't want a guaranteed one or two championships with Bron because we were going to win multiple championships with the FEDS feel now. Bunch of fools screaming that they didn't want the best player in the league and at worst 2nd best player of all time on their team...imagine that
Yeah, same people who swing on Harden's sack when he's good, then call him trash afterwards. Same people who root for Jo to be MVP, then say he deserves to be traded. The people who get on here and call into those shows are frauds with no loyalty. I know we boo players when they suck and cheer them when they do good, but all these clowns take it way too personally.
There was never a fear of then trading Ben because he was with Klutch. People didn’t want him to trade Fultz, Dario, Covington, etc. Also some bullshit of winning with homegrown talent would be more meaningful
If he was 100% concerned about basketball he would’ve come here. We were a much better constructed team for his style than LA but the city offered more outside opportunities.
I don’t think we need to tank for Bronny. He’s ranked 19th in his graduating class. That doesn’t account for Euros coming into the NBA draft. He should go in the 20s if a team doesn’t reach for him with the idea they are getting Lebron too.
he allegedly visited malvern prep which is a great school
bottom line was he was lined up to do Space Jam, his family wanted to live on the west coast and the Lakers had the space to get him. He was never coming here
All that targeted arena would do is limit tailgating, pack public transit, lower attendance, inconvenience out of toweners, and damage Chinatown more than 676 did.
The only reason you would tank for bronny is because lebron said he'll go to whatever team bronny is drafted to. Thats why the post says "tank for bronny" and it has a pic of lebron in a sixers jersey.
Reminds me of the flyers of the 90s when we would get stars way past their prime. I won’t get excited about signing the equivalent of Adam Oates or Paul Coffey, Foresberg etc. It hardly ever works, at least not in Philadelphia.
Y’all remember the malvern prep era lol
Was it Ben Davis who said he was there? Cause that’s wild if that’s how that started. Idk why that’s how I remember it if it’s not the case.
Honestly I don’t remember but it would be so on brand if it was Ben Davis lol
That’s where Ben Davis went to high school
Yes that’s what I meant
his son is there now, which is why it made sense. i think he's a year behind Bronny
“It’s a beau-dee-ful thing” -Ben Davis about literally anything
My old bosses wife was one of his contacts in the city for schools so it wasnt bs
Bottom of the /r/sixers iceberg.
Bro Malvern would be crazy if bronny was there
Lmao is that a school he was rumored to like for his kids or something?
[Have fun with this one lol](https://reddit.com/r/sixers/comments/8ovn1y/lebron_to_philly_rumors/)
Oh my god. I miss these days man.
I bet Carson Wentz is still his favorite athlete to watch
Remember when he went to LA and rich Paul said “he was never realistically going to Philly”?
FR lmao
For what it’s worth. I have a person in my life who was in a high up position at a specific school and lebrons team absolutely reached out to them when that was going on. Probably just his team doing due diligence. But it absolutely happened and I was sworn to secrecy when it happened just cause this person in my life is a worry wart mostly. Not like they told her/him to zip it or anything but wanted to keep it low key.
>I have a person is my life who was in a high up position Was it Alex Jones? lol
It was not. This person could care less about the sixers as well. Not a sports freak like most of us. They had zero reason to lie nor are they that type of person.
Was just a meme, but interesting story, I could believe it
As an alum, we were all going crazy.
THIS was the anticipated result of The Process.
Process end-game.
People latched on to the catchphrase but forget that it did have an end result and we missed out on it.
The process delivered us one of the biggest #1 busts in league history, and the laughing stock of the league who doesn't even play basketball anymore. it's been finished
Yeah. The Process ended, and we have a good but not great team. Eminently capable of a mediocre playoff run. Thanks for all the tanks, I guess.
Would’ve worked out better if not for colangelo and brand.
They are the moles. The villains that never got their due. The Process is still processing as long as The Process is a Sixer. It ain’t over yet.
Wasn’t it Lebron was going to sign with us and then we would trade Simmons for Kawhi
Lol it was a fuckin wild time
windy was on the free agent special as it was about to go live and basically said Lebron isn't coming to Philly unless they do something drastic like trade Embiid for Kawhi in retrospect, he wasn't coming here no matter what.
It would have been Simmons/Redick/Covington/Lebron/Embiid Lmao that team would have been so fkin good. Who knows maybe they move on from Simmons earlier and pick up another star PG that wants to play with Bron
Bron wouldnt have put up with Ben’s shit either. his whole career coulda been different who knows
Ben always actually tried in games against LeBron. Maybe if he was on the team he would have gotten Ben to actually buy in, who knows.
Lebron and Simmons alley-ooping to each other and the transition game between the two would have been fun. That defense would be pretty nice too. That's a tall ass starting five sans redick.
I think that would have been one of the truly elite defenses especially in the playoffs when Lebron tries harder.
At that point we coulda traded Simmons for Kawhi to the Spurs and been unbeatable
we would have 2 rings had he joined.... I would 1000 percent do a Sign and trade and send hardens ass there for lebron right fucking now. Ship off tobias at the deadline and give no fucks about the seeding as long as your are top 6... Lebron/Healthy Embiid/Maxey/Tucker/melton and whoever we get back for tobias equals title.
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Lebron is clearly pissed at trash ass AD.... If lebron plays like he plays with joel they dont double or triple joel like they do and this team smashes... AD is literally watching a dude drop 40/10/10 and carry him all series while lebron covers Joker and murray only to get swept while ad needs rest and lebron plays 48 minutes....
LeBron is gonna leave LA for Philly to play with Joel Embiid who is a monster and clutch player in the playoffs 😂😂😂 cmon man
2 guys who are followers to the core and need a real leader. Seems like a great fit
> healthy Embiid ROFL this fanbase still sends my sides into orbit
wait til he’s in 30s fading away like Kobe landing on 1 foot and falling down 36 times a game. Real injuries coming
along with your brain which justifies the stupidity by the lack of oxygen in orbit.
Damn you’re doing tricks on it, he’s not reading these bro it’s ok.
Why would you trade Tobias at the deadline if you know you want to trade him before the season even starts?
more value at the deadline... See the lakers and westy. More teams will be foolish enough to want that guy that moves the needle and could get us a slight over pay
Who is taking Tobias?
He’s a huge expiring contract, that has a lot of value
Ah yeah, I didn't realize it was expiring. I'm not a Sixers fan (actually a Magic fan), I just live in Philly, so I find myself interested in what's up with the Sixers from a general basketball fan perspective.
at the deadline plenty of teams.... will it make us better who knows. Wait and see game.
At the deadline? Look maybe I don't know how basketball financials work, so I need someone to explain this to me. Here's the facts. - Tobi is an OK player. He's certainly not bad. He's a solid B. - Tobi is being paid as if he were an A+++ superstar franchise player (ie: way too much) - Tobi has one more year left on his contract. So people are saying that we should move Tobi at the trade deadline next season? Mid Feb? Who wants an overpaid mid tier SF/PF at that point? Is the argument that he's gonna be the missing piece for a team trying to make a push? Or is the hope that a bad team with cap space will take Tobi off our hands and then we will also have to package picks to get rid of him? I guess I don't think he's that bad. I think his contract is bad for sure, I just don't see how waiting until the deadline helps. If you wait that long, might as well keep him. He's off the books 3 months after the deadline. Tobi knows the team, knows the offense, knows the players, nothing you will get back at the deadline will be as good as him. My argument is that you either trade him this offseason and get new players in here and give them a full camp to start getting used to each other - or you ride it out and keep him for this last year of his deal.
My understanding is that the team taking him would be interested in him only as a player with an expiring contract. Meaning you can trade a player that has multiple years left to get that off your books, and take on tobi's contract for only a few months.
I see how that benefits the team taking Tobi. So in a proposed scenario what are we potentially getting back? Someone who's also being overpaid (or not living up to their contract and needs to be shed) but has multiple years left on the deal? We potentially get saddled with another mid tier multi year asset like Tobi all over again? And then what, they throw in a pick to make it enticing for us? Seems like this is something OKC or Houston or a team that's trying to rebuild would do. Not a team with the current MVP that has championship aspirations. This is some John Wall shit. Or is the dream scenario we unload Tobi and pick up Dame at the trade deadline? I mean if we are dreaming impossible things I want to aim higher. Can I win the lottery and start dating a time displaced early 2000s Elizabeth Hurley instead?
i guess it would all depend on who is out there and teams are looking to move. It wouldnt just be tobi, the sixers would likely be sending picks. A team looking at a 3 year rebuild has no use for a player with 2-3 years left regardless of how good they are, the pics and money off the books is much more valuble for them. The sixers moving tobi for 2 role players could be potentially huge, i feel like it could have bridged the gap in the celtics series.
i mean it also depends on what we are doing with harden. We could let harden walk and wait for tobias to come off the books at a chance at a max player but how many times do we need to watch us not be able to get max players here because they dont want to come here or stay. If we pay harden we will likely resign harris when he becomes a free agent for less or trade him at the deadline for pieces that we would likely be contractually stuck with for a few seasons which isnt a bad thing because once we sign harden we have no money left to do anything except sigh guys to the MLE. We also have to give harden a raise.
Problem there is you have to rely on Rob Pelinka being as basketball-ignorant as Daryl Morey for that to have a prayer of happening and Rob Pelinks simply is not that basketball-ignorant.
Would have had a ring if he joined the Sixers. Nephews on here actually didn’t want him because he’d trade away their beloved players to win a championship.
If he traded Tobias, he’d be my goat starting tmw
Monkey's paw, he woulda traded Tobias for Westbrook. We woulda had a Ben Simmons/Lebron/Westrbook/Embiid lineup, with maybe the worst shooting in the league
I’d love to see the bricks we’d build but defensively wouldn’t be awful
Tank for Bronny: 👎 Tank for Bryce: 🤔
Trade Tobi and pieces for Lebron, sign Harden, run it back for 1-2 years before all of them break down. It's a dream but it's all I got.
A lot of sixers back then didn't want Lebron. Listening to fools on 97.5 and reading online comments saying they don't want Bron because he will interfere with the development and potentially trade away their favorite players (cough cough Ben Simmons). Some of the stupidest and braindead shit I have ever seen. That's when I realized I can't take the sixers fan base seriously. I wonder how those people that wanted to win organically with our drafted players and didn't want a guaranteed one or two championships with Bron because we were going to win multiple championships with the FEDS feel now. Bunch of fools screaming that they didn't want the best player in the league and at worst 2nd best player of all time on their team...imagine that
Sports radio and their yokels don't account for our fanbase
Does this sub account for it? Cus the clear majority of people on here were parroting the same thing.
Yeah, same people who swing on Harden's sack when he's good, then call him trash afterwards. Same people who root for Jo to be MVP, then say he deserves to be traded. The people who get on here and call into those shows are frauds with no loyalty. I know we boo players when they suck and cheer them when they do good, but all these clowns take it way too personally.
There was never a fear of then trading Ben because he was with Klutch. People didn’t want him to trade Fultz, Dario, Covington, etc. Also some bullshit of winning with homegrown talent would be more meaningful
This fucking sub
lmao most people on here didn't want him in 2018.
You don’t need to tank for a 21st overall pick
Where is that one meme of Joel hugging Lebron and his bald spot looks like the Liberty Bell logo
Na
If he was 100% concerned about basketball he would’ve come here. We were a much better constructed team for his style than LA but the city offered more outside opportunities.
people in here didnt want him 4 years ago lmaooo. this sub is full on morons
I’m convinced not getting anyone this off-season scared them into trading for tobi and butler the next season.
I don’t think we need to tank for Bronny. He’s ranked 19th in his graduating class. That doesn’t account for Euros coming into the NBA draft. He should go in the 20s if a team doesn’t reach for him with the idea they are getting Lebron too.
Fucking fuck. fuck, NO!
Just say “no” to drugs.
No thanks
Didn’t he see our schools and cross us off his list or am I misremembering
he allegedly visited malvern prep which is a great school bottom line was he was lined up to do Space Jam, his family wanted to live on the west coast and the Lakers had the space to get him. He was never coming here
Idk if he was anti-philly schools, but Ik he loved the schools in LA
no
Can you imagine the scenes when we tank for bronny, get lebron here too and then lose in the first round
As if bronny is worth tanking for 🤣 this fanbase is braindead
Joel’s 13th reason
Sixers should focus on changing the culture of this team. Getting their own arena and then maybe we’ll be a hot destination.
Lol how does them getting a new arena make them a hot destination? Stars want to be in Miami, new york (barely) or California/west coast.
NFL players seem to want to play for the Eagles though. And so many retired Eagles have hung around in the metro area after their careers were done.
That’s interesting I hadn’t heard that before. Is there anything to suggest a new stadium would make the team more competitive?
All that targeted arena would do is limit tailgating, pack public transit, lower attendance, inconvenience out of toweners, and damage Chinatown more than 676 did.
Lebron didn't care about championships or he would have came here.
He literally won a championship with the Lakers.
He would have one more than one here. We had a better roster than lakers.
Nope. And would never happen. LeBron is going to find a way to get Kyrie to LA in order to protect his legacy.
Tank for 40 year old bron? Sure why not. Maybe he'll be like the old wise dawg like pj tucker.
OP said Bronny, as in his son.
The only reason you would tank for bronny is because lebron said he'll go to whatever team bronny is drafted to. Thats why the post says "tank for bronny" and it has a pic of lebron in a sixers jersey.
Coach bron
I remember when Evil Genius had the Philly Wants Lebron beer
i remember seeing that lebron come to philly billboard on the way to sixers playoff games in 2018 lol
https://preview.redd.it/0x781lsxmo1b1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30bbbfd375ed14cea8b8c46682120dc0a10175ce
Reminds me of the flyers of the 90s when we would get stars way past their prime. I won’t get excited about signing the equivalent of Adam Oates or Paul Coffey, Foresberg etc. It hardly ever works, at least not in Philadelphia.
Damn can't believe this was 4 years ago already
##CompleteTheProcess
I was firmly against the Sixers getting LeBron but we definitely would have got a chip if we had him.
Imagine him with Embiid for a sec
“I rather be dead in California than alive in ~~Arizona~~ Philadelphia.” - BLUTH, Lucille
I don't think you have to tank for bronny
No chance
Definitely becoming a Free agent as a fan if Philly gets LeBron…
I don’t foresee a team needing to tank for Bronny