Sam Hinkie Understood Joel Embiid Held Team Future

Selecting injured Joel Embiid required conviction and confidence, but Sam Hinkie understood that Joel Embiid’s fractured foot, and the Philadelphia 76ers future, could be changed for the better.

From the moment the Philadelphia 76ers president Sam Hinkie drafted injured, but potential franchise player Joel Embiid, at the third pick of the 2014 NBA Draft, the court of public opinion had been quite harsh in judging the move as fool’s gold.

In fact, it may have cost former president Sam Hinkie his job.

Now that Joel Embiid has begun to excite the NBA, I have begun to see evidence of inputs marginalizing the risk assumed by Sam Hinkie in drafting Joel Embiid. For those who do not recall, Joel…