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"Congrats lil homies," Sixers great Allen Iverson tweeted. "Keep fighting and stay strong."
I will not be removing my comment.@bushwick_bill you are on notice. When they go 0-82, I expect you to go back and fix that rep.
Not shocked at all considering how amazingly poor Detroit has been. I suppose when you're already terrible, and then you lose to the terrible-est team there is, you get dropped to the last spot.Two wins in one week? WTF?
Did not expect to see them clime out of 30th spot here: http://espn.go.com/nba/powerrankings/_/week/6
# 28 Minnesota 4-15
Last Week: 25Losing at home to an 0-17 squad is bad enough. Losing at home to the previously winless Sixers when the visitors shoot a paltry 39 percent from the floor makes it tough for us to focus on the absences of Kevin Martin, Ricky Rubio and Nikola Pekovic as reason to pardon the Wolves.
# 29 Philadelphia 2-18
Last Week: 30The good news: Philly has to be your consensus Team of the Week after finding a way to win in both Minnesota and Detroit after that 0-17 start. The bad news: Each of the three previous teams in NBA history to start a season 0-17 earned no better than the No. 3 pick in the next draft.
#30 Detroit 3-18
Last Week: 29The Stan Van Gundy Pistons are suddenly (and stunningly) this season's Milwaukee. Which is to say they came in aspiring to compete for the No. 8 seed in the East -- just like last season's Bucks -- only to find themselves winning as often as a Philly team that's just trying to win the lottery.
bottoming out and tanking is the best path to a title for the vast majority of teams. doesn't mean it'll get you anywhere once the lottery balls have landed though. and it's certainly worth noting not all teams actually have title aspirations and are willing to make the sacrifices ($$, losing, whatever else) necessary to get there. of course nobody will ever admit it publicly, but lots are content with being on the treadmill if it'll get em a round in the playoffs and half decent attendance numbers. and that's obviously ok; they are the ones putting up hundreds of millions to buy a sports franchise. but, they aren't gonna actually win a title trying any sort of rebuild-on-the-fly nonsense.This is a good revival. I was just about to bring them up. It's time for people to really reevaluate whether or not bottoming out and tanking is always the best path to rebuild a team. The Sixers, more than any other team, has purposefully tried to be bad multiple years in a row. They haven't added a player worth a significant amount of money in a long time, nor have they tried. Seriously, who was the last player they signed via free agency worth more than 5 million a year? It's been a while.
At this point, and after watching the Cavs do it for four years, I'm not sure this should be the default route taken, and it's especially true for the Sixers who basically did everything they could with their picks so far. Is it worth staying off of the "treadmill of mediocrity" when you're THIS bad, year after year after year? I don't know if it is, especially from a financial standpoint. That arena is empty as hell.