City of Pain

billy king’s going to get shit-canned today, and i couldn’t be happier. this team “plays hard” is “entertaining” and they’re all “nice guys.” which is a great way to describe an 8th grade basketball team, but not necessarily a storied nba franchise like the sixers. philadelphia could really use a plan for its basketball team, and i’m glad it’s not billy king who’s writing it.

look at the overpriced and/or under-talented slop he’s brought to or kept on this team since the glorious run to the finals:

Dikembe Mutombo – $68 million extension
Aaron McKie – $35.5 million
Eric Snow – $29 million
Greg Buckner – $18 million
Kenny Thomas – $40 million
Brian Skinner – $25 million
Kyle Korver – $25 million
Samuel Dalembert – $60 million

and he traded for other gm’s worst contracts like Keith Van Horn, Glenn Robinson, Kevin Ollie, and Chris Webber

and he’s had a mixed bag of drafts:

2007
Thaddeus Young
Jason Smith
Herbert Hill

2006
Rodney Carney
Bobby Jones

2005
Louis Williams

2004
Andre Iguodala

2003
Kyle Korver
Willie Green

2002
Jiri Welsch
Sam Clancy

2001
Samuel Dalembert
Damone Brown
Alvin Jones

2000
Speedy Claxton
Mark Karcher

1999
Todd MacCulloch
Jumaine Jones

1998
Larry Hughes
Nazr Mohammad
Casey Shaw

at the end of the day, they stunk before he arrived with larry brown, they were pretty good for a stretch there (5 straight trips to the playoffs) and now they stink again. they drafted some decent players but haven’t hit on anyone who’s changed the face of the franchise. at the end of the day, he’ll be the guy who traded allen iverson for andre miller, joe smith and jason smith and some cash. here’s hoping this guy, ed stefanski:
can spend the cap space that billy king has created in a creative way instead of boldly resigning all his own players that have been overvalued for the last ten years.

thank you ed snider. and thank you larry brown for not getting in the way of this. now let’s go lose some games and get a good draft pick! go team!