Upon his unanticipated return to the N.B.A., Jerry Colangelo especially enjoyed one Philadelphia news media report noting how the 76ers had not so coincidently hired a 76-year-old to restore their credibility.
“It then said not to think this is a 76-year-old who doesn’t have the energy that’s necessary for the job,” he said.
Age is a number, Colangelo contends, and in the case of the historically bad 76ers, the higher the better. Sam Hinkie, Philadelphia’s 38-year-old general manager, had turned the team into a competitive eyesore and desperately needed a father figure. With encouragement from an exasperated N.