During Sam Hinkie’s tenure as general manager, each season contained a couple of absolute certainties: multiple second round draft picks, ten-day contracts and cap space trades. The last of these, cap space trades, have proven to be the most beneficial transactions for the future of the franchise.
For the uninitiated, cap space trades involving one team taking on another team’s bad contracts to free up that team’s salary obligations. Tied to the bad salary contracts are usually draft picks or a underutilized development player. The Markelle Fultz euphoria induced has been induced by one of these trades during the Hinkie era.