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Dwight Howard on the move again.

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Saw this trade, huge win in the trade for the Nets. Howard may be a bit of a personality but he's still a good player.
 

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He definitely lost something...HOF? Hard to say...I don't think he ever had a good face the basket game, or mid range shot, but he was so dominant in the paint he didn't need much of one.

Even with his current game, I thought he was wasted here in ATL. (one reason you saw a revival in Charlotte) You give me a big like him and I'm feeding him until he proves that I shouldn't.

He didn't have Shaq's size or weight but to me? Howard had the ability to be that dominant IMO. The issue was he never got to be the man where he got a lot of FGA's and then he hurt his back.
 

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The Nets raped the Hornets in this trade.
 

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Dwight will play for his 6th franchise this season, but that is just half of the leaders Joe Smith, Chucky Brown, Tony Massenburg and Jim Jackson.

Now a trivia question, all four of those guys have one team in common, who is that team that all four played for?

Whoops I included Dwight in that. Spurs?
 

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Well with that paragraph I was mostly thinking of The Process and Sixers which I know tlance likes and I do as well. But that was different imo because the Sixers had been good, realized they needed a change, and stripped everything down. But teams like the Magic and Kings have been bad what seems like forever. There's nothing to strip down. And because you've sucked for so long, fans and potential players just don't care about you. That's why there's value in getting to respectability for a couple of years instead of staying in the lottery for 10 years hoping something finally comes your way, which is what the Nets will be doing if they continue to stink. That run Philly had before The Process sowed enough goodwill among the fan base that let Hinkie sell "The Process". If they had stunk for 8 years prior, fans would have never bought into it and the team would have lost a lot of revenue from lack of ticket and merch sales as fans say "fuck this"

But, why have they sucked for so long?

They haven't been tanking. They have just made horrendously bad draft picks (Kings) and terrible trades giving away assets (Nets).

I said this earlier, but these teams shouldn't let their past rule their future. The Sixers were brilliant because their first few picks didn't hit and they waited patiently until they got a couple that did. You won't always land a Ben Simmons type player going that route, but trying and missing is better than building around 30 year old fringe allstars like Kemba Walker if you are the unlucky team to win the bidding war for him.

Past mistakes are sunk costs. No matter what moves you make, you can't change those failures. Trying to marginally improve a 30 win roster only gets you an express ticket to NBA purgatory.

Right now, the Nets finally have a chance to bottom out and really rebuild. They don't appear interested in doing that.
 

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What act does Howard do? Is it because he’s always smiling and having a good time? That just seems like his genuine personality.

Honestly he seems like a really nice person.
 

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I didn't even know he was still in the league
 

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But, why have they sucked for so long?

They haven't been tanking. They have just made horrendously bad draft picks (Kings) and terrible trades giving away assets (Nets).

I said this earlier, but these teams shouldn't let their past rule their future. The Sixers were brilliant because their first few picks didn't hit and they waited patiently until they got a couple that did. You won't always land a Ben Simmons type player going that route, but trying and missing is better than building around 30 year old fringe allstars like Kemba Walker if you are the unlucky team to win the bidding war for him.

Past mistakes are sunk costs. No matter what moves you make, you can't change those failures. Trying to marginally improve a 30 win roster only gets you an express ticket to NBA purgatory.

Right now, the Nets finally have a chance to bottom out and really rebuild. They don't appear interested in doing that.

In the case of the Nets, I think it was partially a business decision.

You're buying the team and moving it from a swamp in the suburbs where you can pay $60 to sit a few rows from the court to a new building in one of the hippest, most expensive parts of NYC.

They wanted to, not necessarily win it all, but be competitive, to sell tix and cull a fanbase. They figured a core of DWill, and and Joe Johnson would get it done.

Unfortunately, it all backfired in their face. And in the process, they alienated a lot of their previous fanbase.
 

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What act does Howard do? Is it because he’s always smiling and having a good time? That just seems like his genuine personality.

Honestly he seems like a really nice person.

Yep. Really nice people have 10 kids with 10 different women.

Totally normal, right?
 

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Yep. Really nice people have 10 kids with 10 different women.

Totally normal, right?
Okay then. You hate Dwight Howard.

I know very little about most celebrities personal lives. I read People magazine like once a year at the dentist.
 

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What act does Howard do? Is it because he’s always smiling and having a good time? That just seems like his genuine personality.

Honestly he seems like a really nice person.

Everywhere he's gone he's been disliked. At some point you have to point the finger at Dwight when all these teams want you gone and you're that talented.
 

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Nets could sign Kyrie and Butler next year
 

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Right now, the Nets finally have a chance to bottom out and really rebuild. They don't appear interested in doing that.

Bottom out and rebuilding doesn't always work. Just ask Kings, Magic, T-Wolves, and etc.

Bottoming out doesn't guarantee that 5 years from now, you'll be playing for the NBA title.
 

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Okay then. You hate Dwight Howard.

I know very little about most celebrities personal lives. I read People magazine like once a year at the dentist.

I hate Dwight Howard because I stated facts?
 

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It's crazy to think that you don't hear Howard's name in the NBA anymore, yet still manages to start in all but one game last season. Good move by the Nets to acquire him, as long if he still manages to start in a great deal of games like the past three seasons.
 
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