Date: February 8th, 2019 1:27 PM Author: pale fanboi institution
HE didn't draft Fultz though. Filthy wop Colangello did and got bent over by Boston in the process. Brand did cut bait with Fultz though. Will see if that ends up being a mistake (probably not)
Date: February 8th, 2019 1:35 PM Author: self-centered thriller yarmulke
From: Elton Tyron Brand
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 1999 8:05 PM
To: Taylor, Jennifer
Subject: Re: Leaving Duke
Thank you very much, for reminding me of the reason why I left Duke. People like you can not and will not ever understand my situation. I'm sure daddy worked very hard to send your rich self to college. While real people struggle. I would also like to extend an invitation for you not to waste your or my time ever agin. Never being considered a part of your posh group of yuppies really hurts me to the heart. Yeah, right. Because I don't care about you or your alumni.
Date: February 8th, 2019 4:16 PM Author: Exhilarant crackhouse
From: Taylor, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 2:55 PM
To: Brand, Elton
Subject: Leaving Duke
I graduated from Duke last May and just wanted to express my disgust for your decision to leave the Duke program after only two years. As an alum, not only do I hold the school in high regard, but the basketball program as well, especially since both have deservedly garnered such a great deal of respect for their accomplishments.
As part of our basketball program, you represent Duke as a whole. We are first and foremost an academic school, you clearly did not belong at Duke in the first place if this was the extent of your commitment to Duke and a college education in general. You have not only insulted the current students who are putting in four years at a school they love, but also the thousands of alumni who have realized the value of a Duke education and what an honor and privilege it was to be there for four years.
If you do not realize the opportunity you has infront of you to play for Coach K and at the same time attain a Duke diploma, then that is certainly your loss. I just wish that you has spared us the notion that you were continuing in the tradition of being a Duke student-athlete, in emphasizing excellence in both academics and athletics. You will not be considered part of the Duke family, in my mind as well as many others. You have by no means proved yourself worthy of that title.
Date: February 8th, 2019 1:18 PM Author: zombie-like indirect expression
it didn't even make sense to draft him in the first place. didn't his college team go below .500 with him, improved the next year without him, and consider that basketball is the one sport where one player can make the most difference in W/L.
Date: February 8th, 2019 1:52 PM Author: Exhilarant crackhouse
I've seen him play up close in high school and watched him in college. He easily would be an all star. All the skills were there. He got hurt.
Even now with absolutely no jumpshot due to the injury...in sure if he gets his head together he can turn himself into a 6th man spark off the bench. If he ever gets his shoulder 100% he will be really good
Date: February 8th, 2019 1:58 PM Author: buck-toothed chad really tough guy
In the NBA, an example is LaRue Martin, drafted 1st overall in the 1972 NBA Draft ahead of Bob McAdoo and Julius Erving. McAdoo and Erving went on to be elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and are both usually mentioned as all-time greats, whereas Martin only played four NBA seasons for a career average of just over 5 points per game before retiring as arguably the biggest NBA draft bust ever. Other NBA draft busts include Sam Bowie (1984, who had a modestly productive though injury-prone career, but is particularly infamous for having been drafted one spot ahead of Michael Jordan), Ed O'Bannon (1995), Michael Olowokandi (1998), Kwame Brown (2001), Darko Miličić (2003), Adam Morrison (2006), Greg Oden (2007), Hasheem Thabeet (2009), Jonny Flynn (2009, who was famously taken one spot before Stephen Curry) and Anthony Bennett (2013).
Date: February 8th, 2019 2:01 PM Author: Gold Half-breed
There were two major red flags on Fultz:
1) He chose to hide away for one year in complete anonymity in Washington, instead of going to play for a real program. Seriously, who grows up in the heart of ACC/Big East country and chooses to play at UW (not even Arizona or UCLA)?
2) Not only was he unable to elevate UW to relevancy, but they suffered their second worse season in the program's 100+ year history.
So, I figured he would disappoint, but not to this extent obviously. I thought he might be like a Stephon Marbury. Guy who puts up numbers, but isn't a real leader and never wins anything.
Date: February 8th, 2019 2:40 PM Author: mauve therapy
Amazed Elton could get anything for Fultz, much less a guy who helps fill out the bench (J. Simmons), a 1st round pick (albeit top 20 protected) and a 2nd rounder. It's a solid B trade for the Sixers. The Fultz pick/trade was obviously an F but that was Colangelo the nepotist (at least the Kings' pick won't convey all that high). No sugarcoating that. But they've moved on and if Fultz had been successful they likely wouldn't have needed Butler/Tobias, so they'll be just fine regardless.
Date: February 8th, 2019 3:04 PM Author: Massive corner cuck
You stupid fucks. Josh Harris runs the sixers out of Apollo. Elton Brand is a mere figurehead. You think he’s the one that comes up with complex pick swaps and pick protections on 2022 draft picks lol
Date: February 8th, 2019 3:38 PM Author: Massive corner cuck
I’m black I would love to say it’s just Elton brand. But it’s not and that’s why they had to hire internally to begin with - no other gm candidate would accept having that little control over the team. the ownership is full of hedge fund/PE guys that think nba managers are basically retarded (maybe correct) and so they run everything themselves for the most part
Date: February 8th, 2019 5:31 PM Author: disrespectful rehab
you can't just "bar" injury. injury and injury potential is part of a player's overall set of characteristics. a player who gets drafted at #1 is making an implicit guarantee of his own capacity to stay healthy. if he can't do that, then he's a bust.
He still outplayed Bennett in his short time in the NBA. Not saying he isn't a bust, but it's not as bad as just completely sucking so badly you're out of the league due to being a below replacement-level player.