Okay, so nothing new, but I'm just letting you guys all know that Billy King is sleeping, yet again. The guy has signed no free agents so far besides our rookies. I have heard no reasonable players that we may be able to sign. Jefferies didn't sign with us, and you'd better be crazy if you think Drew Gooden is going to sign with us. Jay Williams is said he wanted to be a Sixer, but is still looking at his choices. Meanwhile, Billy King is spending tons of energy trying to move our only All Star in AI. But, I think we all know, deep down, AI will still most likely remain a Sixer next year. So bottom line is, I don't expect our team to change at all next season, our only new players being our rookies. I also don't know why Billy King isn't starting to negotiate more with free agents, because we all know he doesn't want to give away AI until he sees a deal that is "good" for our team. What deal is that? A deal that lands us a new superstar? Billy King has got to stop dreaming and get with the program. Stop wasting so much time trying to trade AI. The best deals are already on the table, and if you don't like them, chances are, nothing new will come up. What Billy King should be doing is making a splash in free agency and doing what he said he would do after the season ended. Acquiring more defensive minded players. Because the clock is ticking. More and more free agents are being picked up from the market. By the time Billy King finally says it's time for some free agents, nobody will be left.
King isn’t asleep, he’s in a coma. As AI said in an article today how can trading him be the answer to reconstructing the franchise? How can our best player be the piece we need to trade to make the team better? Chris Webber is in the news again whining, King who said “things where going to change” after AI/Webber didn’t show up for fan appreciation night on time is not doing anything about it.
King is obviously all talk. However, I do think that both Webber and AI need a change of scenery. The team that we have right now is a perenial high-lottery team. We need to trade the older pieces away and try to get some young budding stars and draft picks. If not, we will hover around mediocrity until Webber and AI retire. Billy King needs to wake up and make a splash this offseason.
Please someone wake him up before the off-season is over. His job for the past four years has been to surround players around Iverson as he did in the title run and he has FAILED. All he has done is hand out ridiculous contracts to Eric Snow, Mutombo, and Aaron McKie. Bill Simmons said it the best, if it weren't for Isiah Thomas in New York then Billy King and the Sixers would be the laughing stock of the league.
I don't know why you guys are surprised at all this. Also, by the way, Billy King has said he is not going to use the MLE this offseason, so we are not signing ANY free agents other than POSSIBLY Jay Williams.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting BigMo763:</div><div class="quote_post">I don't know why you guys are surprised at all this. Also, by the way, Billy King has said he is not going to use the MLE this offseason, so we are not signing ANY free agents other than POSSIBLY Jay Williams.</div> Yes! Boy is Billy King one smart man or what!
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting TheFreshPrince:</div><div class="quote_post">Is there any benefit in not using your mle besides not getting a player?</div> The only other benefit is saving money. But it's not like that matters to the Sixers at all since we are millions of dollars over the cap and will be for the next 2 or 3 years. Basicaly, Billy King is a failure.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting TheFreshPrince:</div><div class="quote_post">Is there any benefit in not using your mle besides not getting a player?</div> Well for the Sixers there aren't really any benefits. It would make sense if a team was right at the salary cap and they were going to be under it next season because of a playing coming off and they wanted to save it for next year. The Sixers are so far over the cap (second behind the Knicks) that it would just be like an elephant losing a pound if King decides to not use it.
If we use the MLE, we'll be over the luxury tax threshold, according to King and Snider, and thus they don't want to use it...
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting BigMo763:</div><div class="quote_post">If we use the MLE, we'll be over the luxury tax threshold, according to King and Snider, and thus they don't want to use it...</div> Well if that's the case then this is a cheap move by Ed Snyder and the management because this team is simply bad. There are other ways to avoid the luxury tax threshold by for example TRADING SAMMY DALEMBERT OR ALLEN IVERSON TO A TEAM UNDER THE CAP. Not using the MLE isn't going to solve anything because if Billy King honestly wanted to get under the luxury tax we could deal Sam or Allen to a team like the Hawks, it wouldn't be that hard. If Training Camp comes and they have the SAME roster from last season, with the exception of adding Rodney Carney and Bobby Jones, then I hope less then 2,000 people show up for the games. It's ridiculous. Billy King came out and said at the end of the season last year that major changes need to me made, and the funny part is THERE ARE NO MAJOR CHANGES YET. All Billy King has done is re-sign two bench players in Shav and Willie, then he deals John Salmons for a second round pick. If someone is trying to tell me those moves will get this team to the playoffs then get real... We should not only feel bad for us, the fans, but for Mo Cheeks who looks like he'll be coaching a sub-par roster this year. We should feel bad for Allen Iverson, who gives 110% every night. We should feel bad for Kevin Ollie, who has been on every team in the NBA and still hasn't won anything. The one reason Billy King had going for him was that he made great decisions on draft night and even that is in question at this point. Passing up guys like Ronnie Brewer, Cedric Simmons, and Marcus Williams to land Rodney Carney raised some question marks in people's minds. He also, for the second time in three years has failed to trade up and land the local product. In 2004 he failed to trade up and get Jameer Nelson, who would have done wonders for this team playing the point, and this year he failed to get up and get Randy Foye, whom fans would greatly appreciate. But there's no reason to worry, Billy King has called and asked about the avaiibility of Jeff Foster and Drew Gooden .
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting C.K.:</div><div class="quote_post">Well if that's the case then this is a cheap move by Ed Snyder and the management because this team is simply bad. There are other ways to avoid the luxury tax threshold by for example TRADING SAMMY DALEMBERT OR ALLEN IVERSON TO A TEAM UNDER THE CAP. Not using the MLE isn't going to solve anything because if Billy King honestly wanted to get under the luxury tax we could deal Sam or Allen to a team like the Hawks, it wouldn't be that hard. If Training Camp comes and they have the SAME roster from last season, with the exception of adding Rodney Carney and Bobby Jones, then I hope less then 2,000 people show up for the games. It's ridiculous. Billy King came out and said at the end of the season last year that major changes need to me made, and the funny part is THERE ARE NO MAJOR CHANGES YET. All Billy King has done is re-sign two bench players in Shav and Willie, then he deals John Salmons for a second round pick. If someone is trying to tell me those moves will get this team to the playoffs then get real... We should not only feel bad for us, the fans, but for Mo Cheeks who looks like he'll be coaching a sub-par roster this year. We should feel bad for Allen Iverson, who gives 110% every night. We should feel bad for Kevin Ollie, who has been on every team in the NBA and still hasn't won anything. The one reason Billy King had going for him was that he made great decisions on draft night and even that is in question at this point. Passing up guys like Ronnie Brewer, Cedric Simmons, and Marcus Williams to land Rodney Carney raised some question marks in people's minds. He also, for the second time in three years has failed to trade up and land the local product. In 2004 he failed to trade up and get Jameer Nelson, who would have done wonders for this team playing the point, and this year he failed to get up and get Randy Foye, whom fans would greatly appreciate. But there's no reason to worry, Billy King has called and asked about the avaiibility of Jeff Foster and Drew Gooden .</div> To sum it all up, we are screwed because nobody in the front office really cares about this team. Their goal is to simply just be a .500 team. Why? Because that means we are mediocre, and apparently being mediocre is good enough for them. Seriously. Are we fans going to settle for this crap? If the front office doesn't give a damn about the team, and if they think that being mediocre is good enough, then why should we as fans care at all?
We should all storm the Sixers' team offices and lock Billy King in a room and beat the **** out of him... maybe then he'll learn, or maybe he'll just enjoy it.
