Have the Sixers reached the end of the road with Embiid, George?
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I'll just go ahead and say it.
I think they need to move on from the Paul George uh timeline and just go with the kids.
I think, I think it has come to that point, but the problem is, no matter how much they would like to move on from this and say we need to go full youth movement, it isn't really up to them.
It's up to other teams who are really like looking at these contracts with Paul George and Joel Embiid.
And determining whether those are plus value assets and what it would take for them to take on Joel Embiid's contract, which will pay him.
A ton of money going forward, and as long as Joel Embiid and Paul George are on this team, and with all those question marks around their knees and their health questions and their ability to gel together, we don't even know if they can play well together, in that chemistry.
They paid that big three $136 million last season.
They played 15 games together, which if you do the math, carry the two.
That's $9 million per game that those big three played together.
So over the next three seasons, we're looking at a situation in which this coming year, they got $145 million on the books dedicated to those three, 153 in 2026, 2027, and if Paul George picks up that player option, that fourth year of his player option, that will be $163 million that are allocated to those three players.
Yeah, like well over 90% of the salary cap for each of the next three years.
I mean, this was, this was the bet they made, right?
They are stuck, they are stuck in this in-between of we've made our firm commitment to this build.
And also, we are backfilling, because again, if you're paying more than 90% of your cap to three guys, you've got to find the other talent somewhere else, and you've got like the kids have to be all right.
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