The Sixers are trying to have their cake and eat it too with the hiring of Bryan Colangelo. Some of us aren't buying it.
Despite being turned into a black-and-white device in the era of Twitter, critique is best served alongside a helping of nuance. There is room to say Sam Hinkie could have done better at his job without painting him as a numbers-only nerd, for example, or to say that replacing him warranted a larger, more methodical search.
But forget nuance for a second, and let's make something clear: Jerry Colangelo and Joshua Harris are asking the public to accept half-truths, fabrications and/or impure intentions, and I'm not willing to acquiesce.