Kelly Burchell

@BrysonAkinsNBA Philly needs a change and moving Embiid would move the needle. AD would fit well with the existing roster. Plus, it would be easier to build around AD. Also, AD and PG’s contracts expire the same year allowing Philly to go after younger top level talent to pair with Maxey and VJ.

@KelBurchell I get its a swap, but why would Philly do this if Washington gets the better pick, especially if Philly continues this trend of being a mediocre team fighting in the play in?

I have tried an AD trade with every team that could try to contend next year, and there are basically no realistic trades out there.

@BrysonAkinsNBA They are swaps, not actual firsts. Embiid’s contract is an albatross, and he is in worse condition than AD with one more year on the books. It would open up cap flexibility for Philly.

@KelBurchell No it is not. AD is also on the verge of retirement if his body keeps this up. There is no world where the Sixers give up Embiid AND two firsts.

@BrysonAkinsNBA Davis is healthier than Embiid. Philly could sign AD to a smaller extension compared to Embiid’s current extension. If Philly saves $5-10m, it’s worth giving up 1-2 swaps.

@KelBurchell I said realistic. Why would the sixers attach picks to trade an injured center for another injured center?

@brim006 @thebeardedancap That required an effort to fundraise on their part.

What radicalized you?   For me, it happened back in my freshman year of high school in the early 2000s. The head coach of our hockey team believed in getting the team home to our own beds after road games no matter what instead of staying in hotels. Hotels were a distraction. With no hotel costs, he wanted to use the money to upgrade our road meals. Nothing fancy, just basic meat and potatoes type places like Cracker Barrel or Perkins instead of cold Little Caesars on a dark January bus ride home across rural North Dakota. The athletic director and superintendent shut the idea down and basically just absorbed the savings from his no hotel policy into the athletics budget. So after that our coach, the other assistants, the parents, and us players started fundraising in the off‑season in hopes to get better meals on the road. The first year went great. We raised a ton and were easily able to have nicer sit down meals on every single trip. We all sat together at big tables, had actual food choices, ate healthier and built even more camaraderie. It was fantastic all around. But then other sports teams and parents caught wind. It was seen as unfair. The AD, principal, and superintendent demanded we stop, in order to keep things “equal” across all sports at our public school. They even tried to force our coach to hand over the privately raised money so it could be redistributed. Thankfully, our coach was an old‑school Canadian ex‑pro hockey player who didn’t take shit from anyone, and told them to F off, and we continued with our meatloaf road meals as planned. The principal and AD eventually backed off, but the superintendent had a vendetta against our team and probably mostly just our coach so he never stopped. He even went as low as instructing bus drivers not to take us to the restaurants we’d planned for on the road. Our coach always overrode it, once even driving the bus himself since he had the license from coaching cross‑country. Over the next few years we continued the fundraising for better meals. Some of the other teams, and other parents continued to badger the supt., our coach and even sometime us players about it instead of just joining us in fundraising. Watching peers and especially some of our own “leaders” work so hard to sabotage a positive thing for us was eye opening and really stuck with us. It gave us an early look at how petty and nefarious and systems and people can be, even at the local level. And honestly, in the end, all it did was radicalize about 30 teenage hockey players for the rest of their lives who walked away believing “equality” was the dirtiest word in the English language. 😂

@GuruTwoey @WizardsMuse1 @Johng_c Detroit needs a legit #2 creator. Duren is not that.

@WizardsMuse1 @Johng_c Anyone trading For Anthony Davis after that Draymond Green interview is fucking Fool Also Detroit would be stupid to not sign Duren

A recent Wizards article (Via @Johng_c) suggested a Jalen Duren for AD swap 👀 "If Davis were to want out.. a pivot to Jalen Duren would be the next-best thing" The 22 year old Duren is an upcoming free agent, and may be available after these playoffs Jalen Duren as a Wizard??

@BrysonAkinsNBA Agreed. He played in an NBA offensive system at BYU. Defensively, he will improve as BYU really didn't focus on defense. Plus, Dybantsa will be on the floor with good defenders and won't have to take the top matchups.

The answer IMO should be Dybantsa. Not only do I think he has the highest upside, but he was the best player in college, and he fits perfectly with the Wizards.

@sparkyredrocket @Rainmaker1973

@KelBurchell @Rainmaker1973 Reagan was President 40 fycking years ago, times were bad then, that was coming off the great farm recession. Their balance sheets are quite different now.

This company apparently now has an estimated net worth of $100 million

@sparkyredrocket @Rainmaker1973 Ronald Reagan would disagree with you. reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speec…

@Rainmaker1973 Farmers are fucking rich, if you had any idea how much their land was worth you would shit. They spend more per acre to plant than most people can imagine. They can afford 12 dollars after they write out their check for 400,000 on seed and chemicals.

@Wiz_Weekly While I generally agree, two of those examples were PGs that could take advantage of size mismatches.

I'm not the biggest analytics guy but I found this interesting. Tall freshmen that can score with a baseline level of efficiency and really pass the ball are probably going to be awesome in the NBA. Cam Boozer and AJ Dybantsa (the top 2 players on my board) both fit this query.

@BrettSiegelNBA A healthy FVV would have made a major difference.

Maybe I’m crazy, but trading Jalen Green was a mistake. It’s hard to find dynamic guards who can score on or off the ball and create scoring opportunities. It’s much easier to mix rotations up and find frontcourt production.

@les_boulez Embiid plus a pick for AD?

The truth is that there is no market for AD at his salary. Who is giving us picks lol.

@FiliusGrok @hissgoescobra

@hissgoescobra ? ? ? Discovery means all the accusers have to testify under oath way before they get a mic on Kash Patel. How do you not know this?

If I am The Atlantic, I do not file motion to dismiss. I go straight to discovery and wait for summary judgment. Get Kash Patel on the record under oath. A lot of great content there by the way. Set a precedent that you will fight and you will seek to punish.

@Tjonesonthenba I get that. I see Yaxel as more of a play now kind of guy and see him more as a rotational piece at CHA. Plus CHA would still have issues at Center.

Nah you can just add another really good player to the good players you already have

@Tjonesonthenba Trade Bridges then or rotate them? I just can’t see both of them on the floor without taking off other more critical pieces or going with a small ball line up.

Yes he’s a much better player than Quaintence

@Tjonesonthenba Better than Quaintence? He will be 19 in July and has a higher ceiling. Rotate Quaintence with Kalbrener to give him time to develop. Yaxel is only ~4 years younger than Bridges and needs to play now. Putting Yaxel on the floor means taking Bridges, Miller, or Kon off.

Man yaxel would be perfect for them

@PAKA_FLOCKA After the top 4, there is a lot of talent with injury/maturity/size concerns followed by quality older guys with lower ceilings. CHI, if Donovan stays, would be ideal. I could also see MEM, DAL, GSW, and PHX being a fit. If he is taken at least 15th, that is ~$4m in year 1.

I think someone *will* draft Nate Ament in the lottery. It usually takes a drastically disappointing freshman year for a T5-10 RSCI guy to not be taken lottery. If you're relatively productive -- which for his flaws as a prospect, he was -- then a team in the late lottery will swing. Teams I can see: Miami, Milwaukee, Chicago, Charlotte

@SamQuinnCBS rocketswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/n… And only last year Udoka said Eason resembled Kawhi.

Jabari attempted 49 iso shots this year (7th percentile efficiency) and 51 P&R ball-handler shots this year (34th percentile efficiency. In Year 4, Kawhi was at 146 (79th percentile efficiency) and 179 (97th percentile efficiency).

@BrysonAkinsNBA @ravenwizardd Ruined relationship, yes. Its not the first time a player has ruined a relationship with an organization but stayed there to keep getting paid. DLo controls that option. He will not walk away unless he knows he can find another contract.

@KelBurchell @ravenwizardd Yes he will… why part of him not reporting to the team and ruining that relationship did you not understand?

Honestly, I’m talking myself into the Wizards signing John Collins and I don’t know why I like it so much…

@BrysonAkinsNBA @ravenwizardd DLo won't opt out to sign a smaller 1 year deal. There are 7 teams - CHI, BKN, DAL, SAS, ATL, MIL - that have the cap and roster space to sign DLo. Most of those teams will re-sign their own players first. The market isn't there for him and he knows it.

@KelBurchell @ravenwizardd Dlo is on a player option and it’s known he will decline it since he refused to even show up after he was traded.