Anyone who has followed my sports cartoons knows how skeptical I've been of Sam Hinkie’s tanking strategy over the past two seasons. Here's a sampling:
It’s not the idea of a rebuilding process that rankled me, but the way he’s gone about it - putting together teams intended to lose to maximize the odds of a high lottery pick, all while acquiring “assets” that will somehow come together at some undetermined future date.
Well, for the first time since missing out on drafting Andrew Wiggins, I have a bit of optimism about the Sixers’ future, thanks to two recent moves the Sixers have made.