Jared “sold high” McCain off the bench against the Lakers in game 1: 12 points, 4⁄7 FG, 4⁄5 3PT
OKC was already winning without him, but McCain let them pull away and gave them more of a comfortable cushion to help OKC seal game 1.
Isiah Joe and Jared Mcain both off the Sixers and now both valuable people to OKCs depth and roster. How ridiculous
Joecain
SOMEBODY SAID JOECAIN?! YOU SELLIN?! WHERE’S IT AT, MAN?!
Michael Cage you need to calm down
We just need a Vuh in there to make it Joevuhcain, which I need to numb me to help with the pain from losing my favorite player (McCain)
Julian Champagnie is a Sixers cast-off too if I’m not mistaken.
He got waived to have McClung represent them in the dunk contest š¤£
That’s dunk contest WINNER, G-League CHAMPION and MVP Mac McClung to you
SMH
Wellā¦ at least their scouting department is good
And we’re all very thankful for that. As is Julian.
Good thing the sixers have a very deep bench and can afford to give up such assets.
Don’t forget former Sixer Julian “Most made 3s in a Spurs season” Champagnie.
I wish Jared McCain was on the timberwolves. I wanted us to draft him so bad
i remember Finch saying on a podcast or something Connelly texted him at like midnight stoked on Dillingham youtube highlights
if only Connelly was on tiktok getting fed McCain highlights instead
He may be the only kid from Duke I have ever rooted for.
Him and Nolan Smith are the only ones ever for me lol
I mean y’all have Ant and DDV. Do you need more shooting guards? I would think your GM would watch the PG prospects
Rn they need every decent guard they can get
He probably did and just thought Mccain was some tiktok dancer
I wish he was on the Sixers :(
Aināt no way Ant would have been cool with thatĀ
Daryl Morey should be launched into an ocean
You know it was a bad trade when everyone on every social media platform criticised it
Yep, just like the Gobert trade. And the KAT trade. Knee jerk reactions were never wrong.
5 picks for gobert?? Youāll never make back to back conference finals with that!
High stakes trades have high swings in potential up and downside. Trading a promising 16th pick with 60 odd nba games under him for a pick in the 22-27 range is always dumb.
McCain was outplaying a regular pick 16 regardless of if you believed in his upside. Trading that for a pick 5-10 lower is never a good idea
Trading a promising 16th pick with 60 odd nba games under him for a pick in the 22-27 range is always dumb
The pick will be either 22 or 23, and you are neglecting to mention the 3 2nd round picks the Sixers got in addition to the Houston 1st
Woah, they could get 4 Jared McCains with those picks!
I apologise for my sass Iām just sad boi
Astute commentary
He drafted Maxey and VJ, we shall see what he does with the pick he got for McCain.
The second round pick?
no the first round pick
Top 4 protected rockets 2026 pick
he got 3 seconds and I think the rockets first
We getting these “sold high” posts until the jerk is over
in all seriousness bro couldn’t miss from 3 today lol
Morey is a dickhead. I think people should remind each other that every chance possible.
Canāt really shit on him until we see what Morey takes with the first, how he handles the cap space having removed himself from repeater taxes, and what McCain gets signed for when heās on the market in two years.
You can still shit on him for the comment regardless. 2nd year player, coming back from injury and struggling and you’re essentially saying this is the best he will be? Like he’ll only get worse from here?
McCains value has already gone up since the trade, so the comment is already confirmed wrong and always will be.
Has it really gone up? I donāt know that heād fetch a first in the offseason, especially since a team trading him again would create a bit of a āwhatās the issue hereā thought. Heās a small guard that isnāt a particularly good playmaker. Very good scorer, and in a perfect place in OKC, but flawed just due to his size.
I heard he was a liar
oh this horse is already dead and beaten and we’re barely 3 months in
helps that dudes only miss was a (somehow wide open??) heat check
I mean its a fair point when Morey was being an ass for no reason. Like, everyone knows the trade was save money because the pedo owner is cheap, but why shit on the guy?
erm akshuallyāļøš¤, not only could he miss, he in fact did, hence going 4⁄5 and not 5⁄5
Yeh but the comment was so unbelievably stupid and kind of a cunt move. Could’ve just been like “yeh he’s a good player but we had an excess of similar types of players”.
Saying you sold high when a young guy came off injury, not getting minutes and not able to get any rhythm is a dick move. “Yeh we know he’s struggling but also I think this is the best he will be and will only get worse from here”.
Sold high doesnāt mean the player is the best heāll ever be.. just that the trade return is. Do you honestly think McCain would fetch a first and 3 seconds this offseason? His 5mpg in the first round make me skeptical. So does the track record of 6ā2 zero defense shooting guards over the last decade.
Luke Kennard was traded for like a third of Mccains value at the deadline.. and heās objectively way better
It means his trade value is as high as it will ever be. For his trade value to not increase from what they got for him which was everyone considers cheap, it would mean he’s not going to improve.
He’s 22 and in his 2nd season, his trade value should increase moving into his peak.
Luke Kennard is 29 and in his 9th season. He’s objectively “way better” averaging under 10 points a game for his career? Lol ok.
His 5mpg in the first round make me skeptical.
Because he’s on a the defending champions, with a famously deep rotation.
6ā2 zero defense shooting guards
Watch the games, he’s playing passable defense
Ok so you think McCain can fetch more than a first and 3 2nds then? Good luck with that. Show me a player in that mold whoās literally ever fetched more in a trade.. unless you think Mccains gonna become Steph, then itās not happening.
I thought the sixers got a decent return, I think Presti only deserves criticism for his quote.
Yeah I mean gms should keep their mouths shut about players in general. That was needlessly stupid.
But a common take (among Philly fans as much as the rest of the league) is that it was a āstealā for the Thunder. I think itās almost certain that will be proven wrong with time
He definitely fits us well, being that our big weakness last year was secondary scoring / playmaking. Ajay Mitchell + Isaiah Joe’s leap + McCain makes that problem less prominent. With our coaching and development (and inevitable roster turnover), I think he’s going to continue to play his way into the rotation
But we paid a fair price, and the 6ers are in a great spot too. Hopefully it ends up win-win like the Caruso-Giddey deal
And we have ppl here defending Morey just few days ago by pointing out his FG%. He has a 42.5% FG regular season when he just came back from injury and his 4⁄5 (80%) 3PM today balances out his poor shooting vs. Suns. Ppl really try to defend a bad move by Morey just caz they can’t have him anymore.
Pretty easy to balance it out when he only saw 5mpg in the first round. Thatās not really a good thing for Jared lol
People defend Morey?? wtf š
I love him so much, he is the perfect fit on and off the court
He’s definitely a good piece to have this series if the Lakers are swarming SGA at halfcourt every play
OKC need shooters on the floor to counter that and McCain is the perfect player to use
I love him so much, and also I want him to work on his defense this offseason. He’s still a bit of a liability there
I think heās fine. He puts in effort. He just looks rough when he has a team of all star defenders heās being compared to. But he will definitely improve
Did think it was funny that they kept doubling him like, “someone else beat us” and literally everyone was like “aight bet”
Is this the same Jared McCain as TikTok star Jared McCain? Omg I didn’t know he played the basketball.
Former United States Senator John McCainās grandson
Edwin McCain wrote āIāll Beā about Jared
tuned into the game and immediately watched him hit the cleanest pull up 3 ive seen all year
Morey is an idiotĀ
I was told he would see no playing time in the playoffs because of a random regular season game where he shot poorly!! What is this madness?
Seriously though, how the fuck does Mark just seem to know which guy is the right one to play every game?
by playing all of them
Yeah he had Joe, Wiggins, and McCain all in the game at some point and he rode the hot hand. He can just keep doing that.
Felt like OKC was trying every lineup tonight just to see what works.
You spend 3 quarters using all your energy trying to survive SGA and Chet, and then they just casually unleash a sniper off the bench who goes 4⁄5 from deep to put you to sleep.
Presti has to have some Epstein-level dirt on Morey
Well…. There is the sixers owner….
More like Josh Harris.
Lakers wonāt be able to continue their defensive gameplan of double/triple whenever Shai touches the ball if McCain is on the floor
TikTok McCain š
Great bench scorer
That kind of efficient bench shooting is exactly what turns a close playoff game into a comfortable win without anyone really noticing at first.
Everyone complaining, the Thunder paid 1 FRP and 3 seconds for the sixth guard in their rotation.
Half y’alls teams don’t even HAVE that much to trade.
The McCain circlejerk posts are never going to end omg. Donāt get confused when someone post one of those stupid āMcCain just scored 0 points in 5min in game 2ā lolol
Nothing makes me happier than seeing hit his shots tho!
Embiid, Maxey, Edgecomb, and McCain would be electric.
50⁄50 tbh. It was a great closing out lineup against offensive team with mediocre defence, but it was horrible against really tall teams.
Missed the flood of McCain posts during the first round.. when he average 3 pts and 5 mins of garbage time basketball.
Crickets when he got straight DNP’d towards the end of the season because he was playing so ass.
I didn’t even like the trade at the time but the absolute hysteria around this guy who can barely crack a rotation has changed me into a much more hateful person. Brainrot McCain brings all the shrunken brains out if he manages to score 10.
Maryl Dorey
Hold Sigh
Heās fine but why is this still a topic? Heās barely in the OKC rotation and would be off the bench in Philly and they got a couple picks for him
They got the 22nd pick and a couple of second rounders for him. Hes young and already contributing in a playoff game.
I mean getting a first rounder and a couple seconds is pretty good value. Not saying heās a bad player but people acting like heās already an all star when heās literally an 11th man on OKC (a very deep team albeit) but letās be real here
For context, Philly originally took him as a 16th pick. And traded him for a 22nd and a couple of 2nd rounders. It was to get Philly under the salary cap.
Because you are underestimating how many TikTok fans he has.
I think this has to be it because I feel like Iām missing something about what seems to be an incredibly inconsequential trade
I am with you. Now we could have used him when Maxey was hurt but when Maxey was healthy Nurse never played him. I mean his absolute ceiling in my opinion is Peyton Pritchard. Which if he go to would be tremendous
There are a bunch of quotes talking about how he didnāt really understand defense until he got to OKC. Thatās what should scare people. Heās going to get big minutes next year
Thereās already a lot of promise there and he was leading the ROY race before he went down
22 Prbly gets us Evans, Morez and/or Jefferson. Iāll always take that deal.
Half our rotation (more than half?) are second rounders, I don’t get dude’s point
Or why were there no posts about his stats for any of the games in your series?
No nuance allowed here
sure lets just give okc a cost controlled deadeye shooter as theyre about to lose out on role players cuz they need new contract. y not?
I wish he didnāt miss that 3 but 4-5 is alright too ig
There should be an under the table agreement to not trade ever with the previous team champions unless your getting like their starters.
Would probably hurt Sixers fans more if they didn’t also make the second round
I feel like this is kind of like Jrue Holiday going from the Bucks to the Celtics at a much lesser scale. Bucks didn’t think Jrue was valuable as the third piece of a title contending team anymore, they were partially right. But he thrived in a lesser role that was afforded by being on a Celtics team where he could have off nights and it wouldn’t be as magnified.
Jared averaging 9 points on the Thunder is a lot different from Jared averging 9 points on the Sixers. This seems like a much better role coming back from injury.
At this point unless we get a rigged the number one pick like the mavs and we might get swept by the trash ass Knicks, hopefully morey trades vj or maxey to the thunder.
If we canāt win I hope nobody else does either
VJ Edgecombe to the Thunder??? š©šš¦
LIGHTNING MCCAIN
KACHOW
Nah these minutes don’t even count because OKC is obviously not a serious championship team.
I will hate Morey til I die.
The sold high posts whenever he has a good game will never not be funny to me. Thank you clippers and Sixers!
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he’s in year 2, insane talent, on a stacked roster, contributing efficiently in the playoffs. yes, i wonder why it’s still a topic also.
Insane talent? Contributing efficiently in a single playoff game. Letās just pump the brakes a bit
He sold high not because of his basketball skills but other obvious reasons that would affect any locker room except OKC since they already had that type of energy š
If McCain wins a championship with us, would that be definite proof Morey was wrong about selling McCain high?
no, believe it or not trades can be win win
Oh of course! But I mean, thereās no way McCain was sold high and anywhere near his potential.
Morey is wrong, but McCain winning a ring with you guys doesnāt support that.
Thunder were the favorites already.
I was super concerned about him going to the Thunder and how things would be for him off the court considering OKC is probably one of the least friendly states for LGBT. Good to see that the his teammates make up for that aspect and he’s thriving.
OKC is not a state. The rest of your post is even more ridiculous.
I am happy to see he is playing well in the playoffs. Why is that so ridiculous
Lmao quality bait