Wiggins will be a star. This thread was premature and foolish.
I've been lurking this forum before signing up. I have no dog in the hunt for this topic, but aren't you the guy who said Embiid would be okay and the Nets would win 35-40 games? You are calling this thread premature and foolish? I think the idea of Embiid coming back this year and that the Nets can win a decent amount of games some of the worst time wasting ideas I've ever come across.
This is nothing personal and I wish you the best. But do you have any other ideas that are foolish? Not you of course. As in I am sure you aren't calling the person who started this "foolish thread" foolish.
We saw enough of Wiggins last season to show the kid has all the makings of a future star in this league. There are few prospects with as much potential and his rookie numbers were fantastic. His shooting percentages were better than a lot of guys at the same point like Durant and Lebron. Sure, there are no guarantees he will reach his potential, but the reason this thread was premature and foolish was because it was created after 4 games where Wiggins (playing injured) struggled. 4 bad games does not negate everything we already knew about him. He followed up those 4 games with two excellent games. The wolves are actually looking pretty good. Between Wiggins and towns, it's hard to beat that team's future.
That said, I'm wrong about things all the time. For example, I wasn't ready to fully give up on Anthony Bennett and he looks dreadful so far this year. Maybe it's time to give up on him.
As for Embiid, I merely was relaying what was coming from the team. Everyone was just speculating. I was relaying the fact that embiid felt fine, was walking without a boot, running around and dunking and telling everyone around him he was ok. Turns out, I was right. Months later all this info was confirmed. What I didn't know, and what nobody here guessed, was that the team was flat out lying about his condition, potentially lying about whether or not he rebroke it (months later and there is still no confirmation) and that embiid was running around and dunking without a boot in spite of his team. This is something that nobody predicted. There isn't a single person outside of philly who had a read on what was actually happening. So whatever. For all we know, he still has a productive career.
As for Brooklyn, I'm as giddy as everyone else that they started 1-7, but it was only a couple years ago that they started something like 2-17 and finished the season above .500. I'm not holding by breathe. The eastern conference is garbage and that team is still plenty capable of going on a run.
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