Paul Hudrick has been covering the Sixers as a writer, reporter, podcaster, on-camera personality and analyst since 2016. He is the Editor-in-Chief at Liberty Ballers.
Sam Hinkie was right. The Process was the correct strategy for a long-suffering franchise in NBA purgatory.
If Adam Silver and the league hadn’t shut down the most brazen tanking in professional sports history, maybe Hinkie would be revered in the same way Oklahoma City’s Sam Presti is with his Thunder atop the Western Conference and an embarrassment of riches in draft capital.
Alas, what’s done is done. Despite the disastrous Bryan Colangelo and collaborative front office eras, the Sixers have been on their most successful run since Allen Iverson.