Sixers offseason

[ice grillin you]

thats true but i stopped not because of the wildness of the rumor but because the guy wrote out 76'ers

[Rome]

As far as rumors go, that one was at least creative.

I mean, come on...

8 Teams, 19 players = awesome.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I'm waiting for the first 30-team-89-player deal.

[SD_Eagle5]

I had a dream lastnight Webber was traded. I can't remember where to or for who but in my dreams some team was dumb enough to take him.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I had a dream lastnight Webber was traded. I can't remember where to or for who but in my dreams some team was dumb enough to take him.

The Raptors want that Salmons-Webber 1-2 punch.

[Dillen]

The trade of Salmons to Toronto for a 2nd rounder was just made official. Honestly, why the hell do they need him. At SG they have Morris Peterson (who is wildly inconsistent but very good) and PJ Tucker. At SF there is Joey Graham and PJ Tucker too (and Bargnani might play SF every once and awhile.)

[ice grillin you]

salmons isnt a shooting guard....he will compete for pg play

they just lost mike james and are hurting at that position

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

So, he'll get in there and compete, and we'll see how things go there?

[Dillen]

salmons isnt a shooting guard....he will compete for pg play

they just lost mike james and are hurting at that position

I dont think "hurting" is the word, but unproven. TJ Ford is the starter there undoubtedly but he has an injury history, and Jose Calderon is pretty good.

[ice grillin you]

well im not saying hes an answer at any position...just that when he does play it almost exclusively will be at the one...he will give them nice size there coming off the bench

[SunMo]

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/sports/15035927.htm

can someone copy and paste the text to this article?  i can't see the site.

[Dillen]

Webber still feels unappreciated over flap at final home game
By PHIL JASNER
jasnerp@phillynews.com

Nearly 3 months after the fact, it turns out that Chris Webber appreciated the 76ers' Fan Appreciation Night even less than the fans did.

That was the night of the Sixers' final regular-season home game. Webber and Allen Iverson arrived at the Wachovia Center just as the ball was going up against the New Jersey Nets. Neither Webber nor Iverson made an appearance, either to sit on the bench or acknowledge the crowd.

They didn't play the following night in Charlotte, either, in the last game of the season.

"It's over, but if you want the truth, I was made to be a scapegoat," Webber said in an interview on Comcast SportsNet's "Daily News Live."

Webber was speaking from Lake Tahoe, Nev., and will be in Las Vegas from July 28-30 for his "Bada Bling" charity event, designed to raise funds for his foundation.

"I was there the whole game," Webber said. "If you wanted me to come out, I could've come out. I'm a professional if anything, and No. 1, I appreciate my fans more than anything... If I was there the whole game and if I was asked to do something, I very well could have done it.

"The last 5 years, I've probably been hurt two Fan Appreciation Nights, and in Sacramento there's never been a problem. To make it look like I didn't do that for the fans, that ticked me off."

Reached last night, Sixers president and general manager Billy King said in an e-mail response: "Chris was not made a scapegoat. It is unfortunate he feels that way. As an organization, we all have a responsibility to our fans."

Webber said the Sixers knew that neither he nor Iverson would play the final two games, because the team had already been eliminated from qualifying for the playoffs.

Webber, saying he wasn't up to date on the swirling Iverson trade rumors and what the organization was attempting to do, said, as a generalization, "When I was in that situation, that I felt that I had given everything above and beyond what I was called to do [for] an organization... when you hear rumors, any player, you really don't like that.

"So I can just imagine, being all that [Iverson] has done for the city of Philadelphia and the organization, for him to hear the rumors, I'm sure, feels like a slight."

Iverson has scheduled a 4 p.m. news conference today in Washington to promote his charity weekend in that area, including a celebrity softball game tomorrow night, but has indicated he also will address issues with the Sixers.

Webber said Iverson is the reason he agreed to be traded to the Sixers from the Kings a season-and-a-half ago.

"He's the one that called," Webber said. "He's the one that made the trade. I had a [no-]trade clause. I had to accept the trade; people really have to remember that. If I would have said no, the trade wouldn't have happened. He called me later and said his mother was going to cook for me...

"It was because of him, and him only. I'm loyal to a fault, as my mother would say. He's a great player; he brought me there, and hopefully he doesn't have to go."

Whatever might come next, Webber, 33, said: "I plan on playing 4 more years, and I don't have time to rebuild, I don't want to rebuild, I don't want to teach anybody, I don't want to bring anybody up. I want to win a championship. That's what I want to do. I want to win a championship."

[SunMo]

thanks

[rjs246]

Webber is a bitch. I wish Bill Lambeer would come out of retirement to headbutt everyone to death.

[ice grillin you]

Webber is a bitch

i remember on the WU i tried telling everyone that the day they traded for him...that it was an awful move and he was one of the most bitchmade athletes ever...but no one listened to the gawd