With yesterday’s report that the Sacramento Kings are pursuing Sam Hinkie as a front office executive fresh in my mind, I began thinking back to the circumstances that brought Hinkie to Philadelphia in the first place.
When the Sixers began their rebuilding process™ back in the summer of 2013, they were pretty depleted in terms of assets after the massive failure of the Andrew Bynum trade and the complete miscalculation of the Arnett Moultrie Draft Night deal in 2012, which gave the Miami Heat the team’s lottery-protected first rounder through 2015, at which point it could turn into two second rounders.