BREAKING: 76ers GM Sam Hinkie steps down

[Nick Young]

The greatest Tank Commander there ever was.

This is true. Other teams will be bidding for his services.

[T_L_P]

Sources: Bryan Colangelo to succeed Sam Hinkie as 76ers general manager

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources...012928256.html



I now legit feel bad for the 76ers.

Honestly, it's not even so much that Bryan is bad (he did play a large role in building this Raptors team), it's just that they spent years going all-in on a rebuild plan and now they are just going to overpay mid-tier Free Agents and compete for the 9th seed like the other teams who don't have the balls to shamelessly tank do...all because the dinosaur in Arizona wants it that way.

[Fire Colangelo]

Sources: Bryan Colangelo to succeed Sam Hinkie as 76ers general manager

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources...012928256.html



I now legit feel bad for the 76ers.

this gonna make my day haha

[Legends66NBA7]

To think, it was 10 years ago when he got hired by the Raptors. History going to repeat itself or with his dad around going to be like his Phoenix Suns days ?

[SwishSquared]

It says he quit. I think they had recently given him an extension, right?

Or are we assuming it was a quit or get fired scenario?

They extended the coach, not Hinkie. They wanted him to be OK having Jerry Colangelo be involved with all major decisions through this year and OK with his son, Brian, effectively being co-GM in the future.

Not to mention this same ownership group pushed him to draft Okafor over defying Porzingis' agent's wishes of steering him from Philly.

I've been both critical and complimentary of this rebuild and found it fascinating back in 2013 when it commenced. Said that they needed a real PG this year- even overpaying Corey Joseph would have been smart.

My biggest issue is with owners blinking a little too early with this plan. Philly was about to have 3+ first rounders, $50M in cap space, and a decent chance to add both Saric and Embiid this summer. The fact that they didn't wait until like December 2016 to let Hinkie actually be active in free agency isn't fair to him, but that doesn't matter since that's their right. And that they claimed they expected for him to be cool with having a father/son combo have the same executive power shows major naivety.

[MP.Trey]

Trust the process.

[PejaNowitzki]

It was only a matter of time once Jerry was brought in. Colangelo wasn't trying to hear about a ten year long rebuild process.

[PejaNowitzki]

Honestly, it's not even so much that Bryan is bad (he did play a large role in building this Raptors team), it's just that they spent years going all-in on a rebuild plan and now they are just going to overpay mid-tier Free Agents and compete for the 9th seed like the other teams who don't have the balls to shamelessly tank do...all because the dinosaur in Arizona wants it that way.

They've been tanking for years. Jerry Colangelo was brought in because the other owners had enough of the bullshit. Its one thing to tank a season to try and snare a top prospect, its another to do it year after year with seemingly no plan to compete anytime soon.

[AintNoSunshine]

Wow how can a man be so irresponsible? After creating all this mess he conveniently quit on the organization.