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May 20 2013

You’re a star, you’re a star, you’re a bright shining star

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The 76ers need a superstar. How do they get one?

boogie-nightsOstensibly, the biggest question facing Sam Hinkie at the moment is whether the Sixers should tank in 2013-14. By Hinkie’s own admission though, this isn’t precisely the right question. The right question is this: how do the Sixers land a superstar?

“Superstar” is a well-worn buzzword these days, used to the point of cliche. (The same can be said of “buzzword” actually. Cliche too. Sorry. Like most people who watch a lot of television, my vocabulary is limited.) You need a superstar to compete. You can’t win without a superstar, … Read the rest

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May 20 2013

5-on-5: Lottery lucky charms

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1. ___ should represent the Sixers at the lottery.

Eric Goldwein: The big guy on the right.big guy at sixers game

Tom Sunnergren: Doug Collins. He did more than anyone in the organization to position the Sixers to draft outside the top ten. He deserves the credit for this. All of it.

Charles Baron: Sam Hinkie. Put the new face of the franchise front and center. He won’t have the moral conundrum that most GMs/Presidents have about smiling at the lottery, as he isn’t culpable for the team’s current condition.

Wesley Share: Jrue Holiday. He represented the Sixers at the Draft Lottery in 2010 … Read the rest

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May 19 2013

Sixers are too good to reset

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It’s easy to say the Sixers should hit the reset button. Lose 50+ games and get in prime position to land a star in the stacked 2014 draft. 

Pulling off the reset, though, is a lot more complicated than it sounds. Unless new general manager Sam Hinkie is willing to fully blow up the core – that means trading Jrue Holiday and/or Thaddeus Young – the Sixers will have a hard time getting in the Andrew Wiggins sweepstakes.

It’s worth noting that this year’s team almost made the playoffs despite everything that went wrong. They were bad, sure. Pathetic at times. Yet … Read the rest

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May 18 2013

We have the technology…but we don’t want to spend a lot of money

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Three great reads to kick off the second Saturday of the Sam Hinkie era.

sixmilliondollarmanThe Hinkie effect is already being felt. Over at TrueHoop, Brad Stenger writes about a conversation he had with 76ers’ strength coach Jesse Wright at the NBA combine, during which Wright confessed that his new boss has increased his technology budget. Specifically, the increase was from “no technology budget” to “you now have a technology budget.” But how to spend it? Stenger went on to outline some of the most cutting-edge sports tech that’s at the combine trade show this year. 

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May 13 2013

Sam Hinkie loves scouts

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Sam-Hinkie_headshot_rdStats guys don’t care about scouting, and don’t even watch games, and probably don’t even realize the game is played on a court with a round ball because facts like that–the kind of facts you can only learn with your guts and your eyeballs, and maybe a little thing called heart–don’t show up in fancy spreadsheets.

I take this as axiomatic. So I thought it was interesting that, when I stumbled across some obscure internet sports journal called “Grantland,” I found noted stat geek Sam Hinkie lauding the importance of scouting. What?

(Cue record screeching to a stop. Actually, … Read the rest

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May 10 2013

BREAKING: Sixers do something smart

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The team has reportedly signed Rockets assistant general manager Sam Hinkie to serve as president and general manager.

This afternoon, I was preparing an article savaging Sixers brass for shopping for a head coach before they hired a general manager–arguing that it pointed to a general backwardness in the organization. And then they went and did this.

It’s hard to overstate how consequential this is. Hinkie is, by many indications, one of the smartest … Read the rest

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