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Kirk Goldsberry

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7256 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

If they did stuff I liked, I'd say it.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

So you knew there was going to be a fall guy after a pretty embarrassing sweep to the Knicks where you had 70, 80% Knicks fans in the last two games.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

And there's a couple of different things you could probably point to.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

The Embiid extension.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

The McCain trade seemed for some reason to be the catalyst for people to really turn on him.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

And a good example of like,

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

Sam Presti has it right by never saying anything.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

Daryl talks, you know, sometimes to his own detriment and made the sell high comment with McCain.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

The irony is,

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

He traded McCain cause they, they clearly told him to get into the luxury tax.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

Right.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

So there's a couple moves you can make, maybe trade Grimes.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

I don't know if Grimes had any value to trade Grimes without taking a contract back, which is hard.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

And in the McCain case, they got picks and other stuff.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

And McCain was kind of buried behind two guards, but that became the catalyst.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

So, um, when I look at the job that he did in Philly, which was really up and down, like some, some really big hits and some, some misses too.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

I guess my question are they in a better or worse place than when he took over because he was able to get them out of the Ben Simmons thing he was able to trade Harden and get some pretty decent picks from the Clippers back I mean I think one of them is unprotected and

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

in 28 or 29.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

VJ Edgecombe, they pulled that off where they now have Maxie and Edgecombe as like the centerpiece of what they're doing.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Wemby Gets Revenge, Morey’s Out, and a Trade-Fueled Mega-Mailbag With Kirk Goldsberry and David Jacoby

So to me, this isn't like, oh my God, this guy fucked our team up.