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Best thing about payton being traded is not having to hear you talk about hating his floppy hair anymore

It’s funny. With the EP trade, some see a sunset. Others, including me, see a sunrise. The next six months are going to be wild!

Yuck. I see that happening definitely.

Dude just stop! We all know your feelings about ep. It has been on an never ending loop. Guess you never photographed Little Richard huh?

I am excited to see our new acquisition C Room. we might do wonders with him. Lets see how management utilize him. Getting him with the second rounder for Payton surely doesnt look that bad at all now.

So I'm significantly more optimistic that we can keep Mario than i was previously based on: 1. Figuring out we can offer him more than 1 year 2. Seeing Lou Williams extension, i might have completely misjudged the upcoming market 3. Or really 2b. Seeing teams struggle to move mid level contracts this trade deadline. More signs of market issues. 4. "He can make more money overseas". No. No he can't. Alexey Shved is the highest paid player outside of the nba and he's paid 3 years 10.2 million. Andre Blatche is making 2.5 million per year in China. Rudy Fernandez is making around 3 million euros per year. 5.2 million dollars is 4.2ish million euros. Mario would need to be the highest paid European player by quite a bit to get more money than we can offer.

Yep. Skiles was right that Gordon was better than Tobias. Tobias needed to be traded, as he and Gordon weren't working on the floor together. Pretty sure it was Rob Hennigan who was the GM who got nothing for him. We can all cry conspiracy that Skiles 'wanted his guys and forced a trade', but I really doubt Skiles demanded this specific trade. (also, Ilyasova has been really solid since we traded him; he's not Tobias, but he's not making $17 million a year, either) The Tobias trade was a win-now move, trying to get players in needed positions with some familiarity who could help right away. Jennings was a borderline All-Star before the injury, and we took a chance that he had recovered. If he had, we would have had a PG who wasn't garbage on D, and who didn't wilt at the end of games. He didn't recover. It's a shame, but really - and I can't stress this enough - the only problem with the trade was Hennigan not getting a pick or a prospect thrown in. By all accounts, he didn't even ask. Not that any of that is relevant to what I was saying. Skiles was right that Elfrid Payton was not going to improve in the areas we needed him to, at least not fast enough for the team to make the playoffs the next season or the next, which was what management wanted (see the subsequent spending spree). I never implied Skiles was right about everything. I only lamented that PFTW was refusing to give Skiles credit for wanting to upgrade the position years ago.

I wish Elfrid luck, but I agree with a lot of people that it was time to move on from him.

That Sixers first rounder wouldn't have even conveyed yet. Its likely going to be the 16th pick in this draft. But if Philly fell out of the playoffs it would still be protected in 2019. You're telling me you wouldn't trade our 2023 top 8 protected pick to move up a few spots in this draft? You do that EVERY time.

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The Skiles thing scarred Payton. Payton sucks because of Skiles. Payton is a Millennial snowflake. Millennials require tender love and affection, and Skiles gave none of it. In fact, the reason we suck so much is because of what Skiles did to the team. He sucked the life out of this team. In truth, we can blame Skiles for Nick Anderson missing those free throws against Houston in 1995. Nick was living under Skiles’ shadow and the pressure was too much.

EP's hair would be fabulous for a musician! We actually strive to catch shots of musicians with their hair in the air. It doesn't affect their performance at all and it makes for awesome photos :D

The Skiles thing scarred Payton. Payton sucks because of Skiles. Payton is a Millennial snowflake. Millennials require tender love and affection, and Skiles gave none of it. In fact, the reason we suck so much is because of what Skiles did to the team. He sucked the life out of this team. In truth, we can blame Skiles for Nick Anderson missing those free throws against Houston in 1995. Nick was living under Skiles’ shadow and the pressure was too much.

Goodbye EP! One great thing you accomplished is showing us that ANYTHING can be an inspiration for a hairstyle!