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AI weighs in on load management.
This man still giving us sound bites about practice in 2024. What a legend.
AI weighs in on load management.
I don’t know if he’s more “revered” but he’s more recent so a lot fans remember seeing him play.Is it just me(maybe my age also) but does it seem that AI is more revered than Doc was/is?
My head hurts...So unless I'm reading the tiebreaker scenarios and stuff wrong it looks to me like
If Sixers beat the Nets they could be either 5 seed, 6 seed, or 7 seed.
5 seed: Pacers lose to Hawks and Sixers win. It doesn't matter if Magic win or lose because if they are tied with the Sixers it goes head to head and Sixers won all 3 games against them.
6 seed: Pacers win, Sixers win, and Magic lose to Bucks. The Sixers and Pacers are in a tie-breaker with Pacers having the 2-1 series advantage.
7 seed: Pacers, Sixers, and Magic all win. The Sixers drop to 7th because in a tie-breaker between multiple teams the first criteria is if a team won their division. Which the Magic did. That gives them #5. The Pacers then beat the Sixers in the tie-breaker for #6 so the Sixers get #7.
There's a lot more scenarios if the Sixers lose to the Nets which could result in dropping to 8th seed. There's a chance the Sixers could still get 6th seed, but it would need to be a 4-way tie with Pacers, Sixers, Magic all losing and Heat winning. In that scenario the Heat win the division over the Magic and get the 5th seed.
Sixers would then be in a 3-way tiebreaker against Pacers and Magic. Sixers have a 4-2 record against them. Pacers 3-3. Magic 2-4.
With the NBA not re-seeding, the 5 seed (if they win) will play the #1 seed in the second round. 6 & 7 seeds wouldn't meet the #1 seed until the Conference Finals. The 8 seed plays them in the first round.
A little surprised it was that cheap tbh.
Sounds like it's pretty much league minimum, but guaranteed and changes this year to having been fully guaranteed which ends up giving him that extra money.
No-brainer for the Sixers since he's played well as a bench piece and in terms of cap space you have every 'empty' roster spot counts as a the 'league minimum' in the off-season anyway. (or cap holds for maintaining rights)
Didn't see its still non-guaranteed for next year so it's basically more or less just giving him a 'bonus' for this season with nothing guaranteed for the future, but his salary cap number basically being equivalent to a minimum cap hold.It's non-guaranteed for '24-25 and '25-26, then it's a Team Option for '26-27. So it's even more of a team friendly deal.
If the sixers did it they'd forfeit a draft pickCleveland is losing this game on purpose. This is no less obvious than Doug pulling Hurts in Week 17.
(I don't blame them. It's just hilariously obvious.)