Sam Hinkie is a polarizing figure in sports, but especially within the Philadelphia 76ers fan community. Plenty of fans love him, appreciated his vision for building the team, and stood by his unconventional ways.
Another significant group of people couldn’t stand him or fathom the years of losing he led the team into as he attempted to stockpile assets and look for diamonds in the rough via the draft and cheap trades in which other teams had given up on raw players a bit too early.
Hinkie’s draft strategy was too complex to boil down to just a sentence or paragraph, but one of the main guiding principles for his operation was stockpiling as many draft picks and young players as possible and putting the onus on them to excel.