Phoenix is your dream trading partner; desperate and valuing name recognition and salary pricetag over fit, stats, effort and performance history. I felt like PHL was trying harder than Phoenix and got a bit unlucky the way embiid went with injury and maturity.

Bradley Beal has talent and never was anywhere near showing he could play within a system other than talented player on a crap team, let alone a complex balance of sharing the ball with two of the most talented offensive players in the league…who also mostly share his main affliction of being a defensive liability. He’s a 90s-era ball hog star. Shocker he didn’t work out.

Building slowly and organically is the way to do it and enjoy it, if you get a lucky draft pick along the way it helps. Cleveland(recent), Memphis, Sacramento, OKC of old were all far more enjoyable, and mostly more successful than teams that just back up a dump truck of money with no strategy to someone who can score 30 a night; clippers, nets, Knicks, Etc.