Tom, new subscriber here. Congrats on two years of success, and I'm looking forward to reading you in 2022. About that Cavs - Raps game, I think it's embarrassing for the league to have played that game. Virtually every Toronto rotation player is on the shelf. At what point do games get postponed if not then? The new look Cavs (who were minus three starters themselves) took them behind the woodshed and did what every fan with half a brain knew would happen. Before tipoff I told my wife that the Cavs would probably win this by 25, and I was really light on that guess. I don't understand. Heck maybe nobody does.
Tom, I have been a subscriber since becoming one first became an option , and I look forward to GMIB each morning. Your enthusiasm for pro basketball , and your well considered and researched opinions are much appreciated. Congrats on your success and a toast to greater impact going forward. That said, I'm baffled by your support of Ben Simmons in his unprincipled hold-out from the Sixers. I've been a 40 year season ticket holder who suffered through 4 years of paying premium prices for a G league product to garner "assets" like Ben Simmons, and then watched him sit out an entire year without adding anything to his skills and then play 4 years without ever attempting to incorporate an essential element , shooting, into his game, despite the obvious deleterious effect that absence had on his own and his teams chances of success. Finally when his stubborn refusal to expand his prodigious athletic skills led to the sad regression we all witnessed in the play-offs last year, he responded , not by committing to improve, and break out of the obviously toxic track he was on but rather by imploding the team from within. Additionally, bringing mental health care, and painting himself as a victim in some way ,only heightens the proof of his complete selfishness, and lack of concern for anyone other t Ben Simmons. He is an affront to the NBA , not an All-Star, and I can't figure out what the "joke" is with your suggesting a vote for him. Please explain.
I think Simmons is totally out of pocket with this holdout, but I also think it'd be extremely chaotic and silly if Simmons' first game of the season was All-Star. It's clearly not going to happen, though.
Tom, new subscriber here. Congrats on two years of success, and I'm looking forward to reading you in 2022. About that Cavs - Raps game, I think it's embarrassing for the league to have played that game. Virtually every Toronto rotation player is on the shelf. At what point do games get postponed if not then? The new look Cavs (who were minus three starters themselves) took them behind the woodshed and did what every fan with half a brain knew would happen. Before tipoff I told my wife that the Cavs would probably win this by 25, and I was really light on that guess. I don't understand. Heck maybe nobody does.
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Tom, I have been a subscriber since becoming one first became an option , and I look forward to GMIB each morning. Your enthusiasm for pro basketball , and your well considered and researched opinions are much appreciated. Congrats on your success and a toast to greater impact going forward. That said, I'm baffled by your support of Ben Simmons in his unprincipled hold-out from the Sixers. I've been a 40 year season ticket holder who suffered through 4 years of paying premium prices for a G league product to garner "assets" like Ben Simmons, and then watched him sit out an entire year without adding anything to his skills and then play 4 years without ever attempting to incorporate an essential element , shooting, into his game, despite the obvious deleterious effect that absence had on his own and his teams chances of success. Finally when his stubborn refusal to expand his prodigious athletic skills led to the sad regression we all witnessed in the play-offs last year, he responded , not by committing to improve, and break out of the obviously toxic track he was on but rather by imploding the team from within. Additionally, bringing mental health care, and painting himself as a victim in some way ,only heightens the proof of his complete selfishness, and lack of concern for anyone other t Ben Simmons. He is an affront to the NBA , not an All-Star, and I can't figure out what the "joke" is with your suggesting a vote for him. Please explain.
I think Simmons is totally out of pocket with this holdout, but I also think it'd be extremely chaotic and silly if Simmons' first game of the season was All-Star. It's clearly not going to happen, though.
Thank you for another great year of NBA coverage (it’s a highlight of my mornings) and I am happy to be along for the next one