Should the Sixers Make the Playoffs Next Season?
The Sixers should not make the playoffs next season. Not that they will need to try hard to avoid it. They are still developing and lack the necessary talent to enter the NBA playoffs as bona fide competitors.
What is more, the concept of tanking is somewhat obsolete with the introduction of the lottery concept. Hinkie is a basketball guy, not a showbiz manipulator like in years past of the NBA.
Sam Hinkie is rebuilding the team well enough to the extent that their capability to miss the playoffs is without purposeful losing or forceful engineering.