‘Ol Vax Ass is up to his old tricks again. Today he sharted out one of his opinion pieces and threw it at the wall. He writes that if the Sixers don’t meet expectations this summer, Joel Embiid will force a trade, James Harden will opt out, and Doc Rivers will be canned. This is a great Big J trick by Hayes. He cherry picks two easy arguments, but leads with something so asinine you have to click on it. He’s been pulling this grift forever. But not before he starts every anti-Sixers post, by skewering The Process:

Ten years ago, Josh Harris hired Sam Hinkie to clean up the Andrew Bynum mess and begin The Process. Hinkie failed in both transaction and culture, but reset the salary cap and asset cache, which he handed to Bryan Colangelo, who failed at everything except retaining coach Brett Brown and drafting Ben Simmons, who eventually begat James Harden. Brown went when he needed to go, and Doc Rivers filled his seat, followed by president Daryl Morey.

Hayes is part of the dinosaur cloth of sports media shit stains in this city that hated The Process since day one. A guy who is more content with Doug Collins leading the team to a 7th seed than tearing it down and trying something new because they played the right way. He finally stops fellating himself to some revenge porn fantasy to get to his point about Embiid forcing a trade out of Philly:

Embiid, who adopted “The Process” as a nickname — fittingly, too, since, like The Process, he took ages to develop and remains incomplete — will surely force a trade to a franchise that actually understands basketball. He’s never played with a true point guard. It’s a nine-year crime.

If being a consensus MVP frontrunner, multiple All-NBA and All-Defensive player by 28 is someone who “remains incomplete” my mom must be so disappointed in me. Don’t worry though, Hayes strengthens his argument with examples of why Embiid will force a trade. Using this tweet:

And this quote from a Yahoo! Sports article by Jake Fischer:

“I don’t know,” Embiid said, shrugging. “Sixers fans, they want to trade me.” The 28-year-old grinned wide, his breathy laugh filling the space.

Compare that quote to how Hayes writes it in his column:


He then told Yahoo Sports in December, “Sixers fans, they want to trade me. … I do believe that. They want to trade me.”

Two examples. One an innocuous observation of a basketball game and another that he conveniently leaves the context out of. These examples would only fool a guy who forgets the porn tweets he favorites on Twitter are public. But this is the Marcus Hayes playbook. Feign outrage. He’s the guy who once compared Rory McIlroy getting hurt playing soccer to Plaxico Burress shooting himself.

Joel Embiid isn’t requesting a trade this summer, or ever. The guy adopted the nickname “The Process,” he cares about his image and legacy, and he saw how fast this city can turn on you firsthand with Ben Simmons. Most of all, he enjoys being comfortable. Which, funny enough, his comfort level might be the only thing holding him back from ever lifting the Larry O.

P.S. Can we finally put ChatGPT to good use? Enough of the incels trying to make it angry and turn it against us. Lets get rid of all the lazy sportswriters with an axe to grind who continue to spout their agendas and disguise them as opinions because Sam Hinkie didn’t talk to the media when he was here. Tenure is a real bitch.