Apollo Global Management’s finest. The guy is a professional at asset stripping and tax dodging.

The day he sells the team, there will be parties in the streets of Philly

Yeah unfortunately this is what happens when nuance goes out the window. He was actively avoiding Epstien but he was in the files so hes evil.

Epstein was a starfucker who was constantly begging for attention from rich and famous people.

If you read them, it’s a bit more than that, but not a ton more than that.

However, his bestie and business partner Leon Black used Epstein for his financial services - haven’t looked into how closely linked those payments and relationships are connected to Apollo. But Black is badly implicated in a number of allegations

Hit the TrueAnon tip line (actually don’t if it’s made up)

I hate whatever this thing is that Redditors do

I think we sold too low, I don’t agree with the move. All I’m saying is this was obviously not a tax duck.

If VJ isn’t as good as he is we probably don’t do this, I think FO realizes that we aren’t going to be able to make a future perimeter lineup of maxey VJ mccain work and he probably won’t rehab his value much this year because he’s our fourth guard, so we might as well get real value back for him now. We also don’t have our own FRP this year so at least now we are picking this year even if it’s in the 20s.

I mean the 2024 draft was considered super weak (looks kinda better in hindsight but very hit and miss) and he went 16 still, he wasn’t a crazy prospect. I can see the argument both ways for that. It’s just them eating that pick at a loss and trying to get something instead rather than a guy on the end of the bench out of the rotation like McCain has been

Undersized guard who’s having a bad season due to injury vs a 2026 late pick where you could draft a tall wing to complement your backcourt.

Is it the right decision? Idk but if he’s not going to play, might as well get value now

No the man shooting 34% from the field in the g league is the 2nd coming of Christ and was definitely going to get a lot of playing time with Maxey, Edgecombe, and Grimes on the roster.

How Joel has made it this far while never asking for a trade is beyond me.

Yeah, it sorts of feels like the Belichick HoF snub. A situation so starkly obvious that even the haters have to take note.

I’ve probably hated on Embiid more than any other NBA player, and even I’m very happy he’s back to performing well! Shitty owners are the worst :(

That’s then why didn’t  one of the other teams trade their slightly better pick for him?

apparently not. dude lost his minutes to VJ. getting the ~25th pic and 3 seconds is a solid return for a guy coming off two major injuries 

Maybe if this was rookie year McCain. But second year McCain hasn’t been the same player. I think a lot of Sixers fans here are overreacting, McCain was never signing a second contract and he would’ve been at best the 9th guy in a playoff rotation.

Dude has been absolutely horrendous

i mean once grimes left in FA i dont see y not

unless theyre gonna sign grimes to a contract extension…which is almost guaranteed to be twice wat mccain was making on the rookie scale

He was a roty fav until his injury and is in his second year, they gave up on him…actually they just used his injury as an excuse to dump him

Grimes is going to leave and the only other guard is now Lowry, so yes he very easily could’ve gotten run. Maxey is #1 in minutes and VJ is #6, it’s fairly likely that one or both of them will miss time at some point and it would’ve been nice to not trot out a corpse

Not the point. We are not a serious organization, this is a circus and it is run by clowns. The amount of seemingly impossible fumbles given the resources at their disposal over the past decade+ aside…..

The main objective of the front office should be to enable the team taking the court to have the best possible chance to win now and carry that form forward.

If it’s instead motivated by finances - fine. But make those moves in the context of enabling the team taking the court to maximize their chances to win now and carry that form forward.

Once the PG bullshit popped up, the hidden silver lining there was that it gave the organization a few different possible ways to duck the tax that wouldn’t involve shipping off McCain for nothing. But that’s still what they did, so honestly, like, what the fuck.

I’m mostly speaking to trading Lonzo to the Jazz where we gave two 2nd round picks for them to absorb his contract.

That move did nothing to help the team. We could have waived him and save the draft capital.

There are.

But let’s be honest here. None of these owners are losing money.

Trading Lonzo did nothing to help with that since he’s an expiring contract. Only reduces the tax bill and we gave up draft capital to do so.

No. Still over.

It’s the entertainment industry. The Cavs only make money from fans like this guy buying tickets and jerseys. And usually the local tax payers foot the bill for the stadiums they play in.

We’re not entitled to their money, but we’re passionate and we wish the billionaire owners gave a shit about the team that millions of fans are invested in.

Crazy how people defend billionaires.

The brainwashing is crazy

Crazy how much some nincompoops on Reddit enjoy the taste of Billionaire boots.

But it’s provocative

Why?

So much of what’s in there is “Epstein emailed person X” and that’s the end of the story. That’s what happened with Porzingis.

There are over 3 million documents and only a small percentage relate to actual crimes or even real relationships with Epstein.

Joel Embiid and Demarcus Cousins are essentially the same person.