Draymond GreenForward, Golden State Warriors

76ers are “the Desperate Housewives of basketball” 🤣 #nba #sixers #joelembiid #draymondgreen

15 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief YouTube clip, Draymond Green and a co‑host discuss the Philadelphia 76ers' current situation. Green argues that when the media takes over a team's narrative, it creates a distracting environment that hampers success. The co‑host likens the 76ers to the TV drama Desperate Housewives, pointing to a cascade of injuries—Tyrese Maxey, Paul George, and Joel Embiid—and the constant media scrutiny of Embiid’s comments about back‑to‑backs and trolling. Green adds that he experienced a similar chaotic narrative the previous season, concluding that a focus on drama rather than basketball makes winning virtually impossible.

It's over for Philly before it even starts. When the public take over the narrative of your team, it's hard. Everything Joel do, everything he say is gonna be picked apart. You know what they are?
They are the Desperate Housewives of basketball. They ain't got so much drama going on. It's like, goddamn, you got Tyrese Maxey, he's out. Paul George in and out, hurt. Embiid in and out, hurt. They got so many injuries. It ain't even that, 'cause it's the energy. Of the media, of what's going on with Joel, "I don't play back-to-backs," "Oh, I'm just trolling." All that shit is just unfocused energy. It's like, "Okay, we gonna turn the Philadelphia 76ers into this year's Desperate Housewives. This is where all the drama is gonna exist." We not talking about hooping.
That's a great point you make. I went through that last year. It was about all the other shit. It's impossible to win that way.