crzymdups wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

crzymdups wrote:Where the Hinkie lovers at?

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Interesting development.
I don't think there have ever been any Hinkie lovers here though.

Oh?

Bonn1997 wrote:

crzymdups wrote:Where the Hinkie lovers at?

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Interesting development.
I don't think there have ever been any Hinkie lovers here though.

really??? Rainman where are you???

Really? The 10-68 Sixers aren't an attractive place for FA's? That's not what I've read on some threads in here. The Sixers are the wave of the future!

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jrodmc wrote:That's brilliant. Due to changes in the organization, HE can't make good decisions anymore.
Can't wait to see where he lands next. Destroy franchise, deploy blueprint with 15 year "zig". Leave.

Really? The 10-68 Sixers aren't an attractive place for FA's? That's not what I've read on some threads in here. The Sixers are the wave of the future!

He did good stockpiling picks, that wasn't the problem. He just never cashed in those picks for players. He always did the opposite and traded away his young talent for more picks instead of trading his abundance of lottery picks for top free agents.

While amassing a never ending plethora of tanking seasons that would have gotten him life in front of the firing squad in NYC.

I blame the ownership, not just Hinkie. Bringing in Jerry COlangelo to fix ownership. I think ownership was fair to not fire him as they are culpable in the process. Perhaps they will pay the rest of his contract and let him leave with his dignity. That's fair.

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Behind the scenes of Sam Hinkie's exit
by Keith Pompey, STAFF WRITER Twitter icon @PompeyOnSixers

No one within the 76ers organization will deny that Sam Hinkie was about to lose his power within the organization. However, the 38-year-old's abrupt resignation as general manager and president of basketball operations shocked the Sixers, according to a league source.

"The way it went down was strange," the source said. "But actually him not wanting to have a partner or a boss, that part like the very end, how this was going to end up, that has been at least a month in regards to hard core conversations.

"But the way it went down just [was] an indication of his maturity."

Hinkie was with the team and members of the organization for three hours Wednesday. It was a part of the team photo. Then he met with managing owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer for an hour and a half.

Sources said that Hinkie appeared to be in good spirits and even joked with someone before taking the team picture. But that evening, he sent a 13-page resignation letter to the Sixers' equity partners.

"I think he did some great stuff for sure to position a franchise in a time when it took a lot of strength to do so," a league source said.

But the Sixers were trying to get him some help, somebody to come in as a partner with Hinkie on a leadership end and to build a culture for players.

The organization wanted to be able to attract free agents and have better relationships with opposing general managers, agents and the media.

The Sixers felt that Hinkie did well, maybe even great, with the core jobs of analytics and dealing with the salary cap. However, they felt he was "not so great" with everything else that comes with being a president and general manager in the NBA.

So the Sixers met with Hinkie over the past three to four months about giving up some of his responsibilities and to work on his shortcomings. The conversations started to heat up in the last two weeks.

At first, they asked Hinkie to cooperate. Then they told him that this is how things were going to be done.

The source pointed out that Hinkie is still young and this is the first team that he has run.

But it's also a critical time for the Sixers. They have three first-round picks this summer, possibly four if they get the Los Angeles Lakers' conditional pick. In addition to that, the Sixers will have an abundance of salary cap space the next two seasons.

And Hinkie is known for excelling in those situations.

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Published: April 7, 2016 — 10:31 AM EDT | Updated: April 7, 2016 — 11:44 AM EDT
The Philadelphia Inquirer

WaltLongmire wrote:From the Hinkie letter...

Salary cap position

Our salary cap position going forward is easily the NBA's best. The most room, the most flexibility,
providing the widest available set of options in free agency or trade of any club. This stockpile can be used all at once or strategically over the ensuing years to acquire players that fit your team, improve in your development program, and help you move up the standings.

During this phase of acquiring players and picks to really invest in our future and climb higher than we have in over 30 years, we spent a bit over $135M on payroll across the three seasons, while the NBA median spend was over $200M. That won’t last, as over time a climb up the standings will see spend rise precipitously as well.

These advantages over our competitors are material, but well short of deterministic. From here a whole host of solid decisions are necessary to play our hand out of this stacked deck.

Hinkie was like a guy who chose to live with his parents in order to save money so he could get the perfect house and find his perfect wife when the time was right. He chose to live in a way which limited his life and his personal associations with the belief that the future would be so much better... After 20 years he had still not moved out, though, and was always afraid to take that next step.

Hinkie makes it seem that he was about to turn everything around with this draft, but as it turns out, the 2016 seems to be far from a franchise changer.

Seems like his biggest "concrete" achievement was only spending $45M/yr on his players...saving the team at least $65M more than the median NBA team.

This is also humorous...

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I've read many things about him being disliked by agents, and from what we've been seeing, FAs are not coming to teams with records like the Sixers.

I think he did leave the team with some "assets" a smart GM can use to build a successful team, but there is no way Hinkie was going to take them to the promised land.

That is a great analogy for him. His cycle of trading for draft picks, young players he drafted for draft picks, etc just meant he was afraid to actually take that next step that he had promised as part of his process.

- courageous smart dude who tried to help his team thru the draft. fine but he never drafted well
- in doing so he made a mockery of the NBA and a great bball city by tanking
- probably deserved to finish what he started BUT who was to say that this wouldnt go on forever
- i have no problem building thru the draft, my beef is him being cheap by not spending on players
- im not mad he is leaving but its concerning that hes being replaced by colangelo's son - i hate nepotism

Overall = he did his job by putting them in a great position to win. by taking an extreme approach he put his rep (and coach brown's rep) on the line and he paid for it. unfortunately, someone else will enjoy the fruits of his labor

PS = this should scare the HELL out of the knicks. not only have the sixers accumulated good young, cheap talent but they also have over $70 in cap space. they can outbid anyone we go after (i.e jennings, bazemore etc). Free agents always go where the money is. now the stigman of losing is GONE once hinkie left

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How the 76ers unraveled Sam Hinkie, turned the franchise over to the Colangelos
By Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical 3 hours ago

Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie began to believe that this burgeoning front-office arrangement would never work for him, that chairman Jerry Colangelo had persuaded ownership to marginalize Hinkie’s influence and strip his authority.

Over weeks, Hinkie had considered the possibility of his future and finally decided to resign on Wednesday. He often explained himself to ownership in letters and reports, especially because that’s how it liked to be informed of his plans of action.

So, Hinkie emailed his resignation letter in the afternoon to Sixers ownership, including 12 majority and minority owners, and Jerry Colangelo. He expected ownership to respond to him and work toward a joint public announcement on Thursday, sources said. Within two hours of sending the email, the letter had been leaked – Jerry Colangelo was Hinkie’s strong suspicion, sources said – to a media outlet.

Hinkie was mortified to see his words in the public arena, never expecting that a private correspondence to his superiors would become public and turn into something of a mocked manifesto. He wanted to tell his staff of his decision on late Wednesday or Thursday morning, once he talked with ownership about how his departure would be made public.

Hinkie never had the chance. The news was out, and Hinkie had lost control of his departure. His staff learned of his resignation in the news.

From the moment Colangelo arrived on the job in December, Hinkie was doomed – no matter how hard Hinkie tried to work with Colangelo, no matter how hard he tried to accept and implement his advice. Around Hinkie, people were surprised at how optimistic he had been about finding a way to coexist with Colangelo, about working together. Others were far more cynical about how this would end – and turned out to be right.

In the end, Colangelo wanted two things: to turn Hinkie into a glorified director of analytics; or run him out completely, sources said. In several parts of the Sixers’ ownership group that wasn’t well-received. Even today, Hinkie still holds strong support with several members of the Sixers’ ownership group. They believed his plan could have harvested results this summer, sources said, and that he should’ve been afforded more time on this grand experiment.

Ownership resisted on completely abandoning Hinkie, sources said. It kept finding ways to make this work long term with Colangelo and Hinkie. Colangelo signed a deal – three years in length, sources said – to oversee the franchise from afar in Phoenix. From the start, Colangelo felt that Hinkie didn’t have the necessary people skills to run an NBA organization, that he was too buried in numbers and pie graphs and PowerPoint presentations. Jerry Colangelo constantly lamented the absence of what he termed “real basketball people” in the organization. Colangelo has strong respect for Hinkie’s No. 2 man, Brandon Williams, who played in the NBA, and even signed off on Williams’ promotion to chief of staff.

For several weeks and months, Sixers ownership, Colangelo and Hinkie discussed different scenarios of front-office partnerships, sources said. Colangelo had convinced ownership that it needed a more basketball-savvy executive with better interpersonal skills to join Hinkie; or even simply to overtake him.

Within the past month, ownership had Hinkie meet with former Atlanta and Cleveland general manager Danny Ferry to discuss him joining Hinkie in the front office, sources said. Owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer indeed wanted Hinkie to share power with a new basketball executive, but people they canvassed for advice warned them that scenario would never work. Nevertheless, they had given Colangelo authority to make changes to basketball operations, and Colangelo was pushing for change.

Recently, Sixers ownership insisted that Colangelo had been, in the word they were using, “recused” from the hiring process of the new basketball executive. Colangelo let ownership and president Scott O’Neil conduct interviews and meetings – and stayed out of it, sources said.

Hinkie was dubious of the process, sources said, and believed that Jerry planned to find a way to turn the power over to his son, Bryan Colangelo. Make no mistake: Jerry wanted Bryan, but would’ve accepted Ferry had ownership recommended his hiring, sources said. The Sixers offered Ferry the general manager job in 2012 before he accepted Atlanta’s offer.

What’s unfair to Bryan Colangelo is this: He’s no charity case, but the cries of nepotism are unavoidable. He’s been NBA Executive of the Year twice, constructing playoff teams in Phoenix and Toronto. Every NBA executive has hits and misses, but Bryan Colangelo has had significant successes – there’s no denying it.

If Jerry Colangelo forever wanted to hire his son, Bryan was beyond reluctant to accept a job there, sources said. From the moment the Sixers hired Jerry, Bryan kept pursuing available NBA opportunities. He believed he had a great chance to get the Brooklyn Nets’ job, but was crestfallen when Sean Marks was chosen over him. Colangelo fought his way through the nepotism charges with the Suns, where he was ultimately responsible for signing Steve Nash, drafting Amar’e Stoudemire and assembling the cast of coach Mike D’Antoni’s Seven Seconds or Less contender. In Toronto, Bryan Colangelo’s body of work looked stronger with distance: drafting and re-signing DeMar DeRozan; trading for Kyle Lowry; and hiring Dwane Casey as coach.

If Bryan Colangelo had a brash disposition that could turn people off, people have seen him humbled. Even rival executives who don’t consider him a friend have great respect for Bryan’s ability to evaluate talent, make deals and a run an organization. He’s a worker, and the profession respects workers. Truth be told, Colangelo never wanted the 76ers job. Never. He wanted no part of his father’s shadow again or the cries that he needed his father to give him a GM job.

Yet 76ers ownership, including O’Neil, convinced Bryan Colangelo that it believed he was the best candidate on the market. This will be a tough sell to the public, yes, because everyone knows that Jerry wanted to see Bryan hired. Ownership and O’Neil insist that Bryan Colangelo was the best candidate to turn the Sixers’ two potential lottery picks and salary-cap space into a playoff team sooner than later.

Bryan Colangelo would’ve preferred a Nets job that had far fewer assets, a less-clear path to winning. Only, the Nets didn’t hire him. The 76ers wanted him, and Bryan Colangelo is trying to finalize contract terms with O’Neil and ownership Thursday, sources said. It won’t be long until Colangelo is reshaping the front office, with Washington Wizards executive Marc Eversley expected to eventually join him in Philadelphia, sources said.

“The Process” is over in Philadelphia, a brash and bold new-age experiment overrun by the NBA’s first family of front offices. In the end, there’s just one judge: winning. This franchise has endured great pain, but there are possibilities awaiting it with high draft picks, young talent and the uncertainty of Joel Embiid’s foot. No one in modern NBA history has learned to use power like Jerry Colangelo, and he’s done it again. That’s just how it goes in the NBA, that’s just the system.

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