Casual Friday Sixers Links wants to go to the soccer game with Joel Embiid

Welcome to another edition of Casual Friday Sixers Links!

Housekeeping:

• His trade was always going to be a necessary inevitability, but man it's going to be sad watching the Sixers this season without Thad Young. All the best to him in Minnesota.

• Missing you, Thad Young :'(

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BEST OF LIBERTY BALLERS:

Goodbye Thad Young posts: Goodbye, Thaddeus Young: Former Sixer and Golden Boy of a Bland Era (Jake Fischer), The Thaddeus Young Trade Was An OK But Sobering Exchange (Derek Bodner), Why The Thaddeus Young Trade Was A Good Move (Matt Carey)
Tradeus Young

76ers' Sunday Morning Shootaround: What Did The Fox Say - Roy Burton
What does the Phanatic say?

Reflecting on the Anthony Bennett Sixers Era - Michael Levin
We'll always have "what if?"

Remember This Guy: Hasheem Thabeet - Dave Rueter
We'll always have those 10 seconds. 10 Seconds of Summer. That should be a band name.

Explaining My Thing For European Players - Michael Baumann
Baumann's Basketball Bible

SIXERS AND OTHER BASKETBALL-RELATED LINKS:

Joel Embiid needs to be Union's permanent honorary captain - The 700 Level
All "what if Joel Embiid played soccer posts" I have brainstormed in the past week have become an endless line of Peter Crouch jokes.

Sixers GM wants Joel Embiid to take over his Twitter account - USA Today
I want Joel Embiid to take over my Twitter.

How the Sixers did - and didn't - turn a profit last year - NBA.DerekBodner.com
And an explanation of the Hasheem Thabeet trade and what the Sixers got out of it.

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Now, discuss! Happy Friday!