Why does Sam Hinkie still have a job?

[The Fire]

Trading MCW was just an awful, awful move. That's when he officially lost me. He has further continued to lose me by stockpiling big men who really don't have much of a trade value. He's an awful GM ... couldn't have success in 2K Dynasty mode.

Lmao

 

[jdashmaj]

I also did that same shyt as a 13 year old on NBA 2K. Trading away any decent player on your team for 2nd round picks so you can tank even more isn't a stroke of genius.

All that crakkka did is what people do in video games. Or at least what I always do in video games when I trying to rebuild a franchise. I trade away every decent player on the team for draft picks. Then I lose intentionally to secure the top draft pick. Then I draft the top rated players. Then after 2-3 years of this charade, I have the best team in the league.

This works in video games because no one is actually paying money to watch my games when I've intentionally gutted the roster for 2-3 years with the express purpose of losing. Also its a video game so I can simulate through this horrible part.

What Philly did to the NBA from 2013-2016 was an ABOMINATION to competitive sports. Its not something anyone who actually enjoys basketball should be happy about.

Do you morons not even remember what they had to do to get here?

Most of the other people in sports actually have the decency not to subject their fans and the league to INTENTIONAL LOSING for that long. From 2013-2016 the Sixers were intentionally losing in a way we've never seen before in competitive sports.

Do you really want a league where teams actually try to copy that shyt? If you do, then you don't care about the NBA.

No. At the end of the day, the intentional losing was an abomination to competitive sports.

Also the NBA is right now at an all-time low point when it comes to talent. A garbage ass Toronto squad is 1st in the East. These records don't matter when the whole league sucks.

And you wonder why the NBA is garbage. If 10-12 teams are tanking every year like the Sixers to try and get high draft picks, think about what happens to the game?

That's all I was saying in my criticism of Hinkie and the Sixers. I was looking at it from a league-wide perspective rather than an individual team. If I ran the Sixers or any NBA team, I would do the same thing. Cause from the self-interest point of view, its the smart thing to do. But sometimes the smart thing to do from a selfish perspective isn't the best thing to do for society as a whole. That is what tanking did. It was bad for the NBA as a whole even if it was good for the Sixers.

 

[Left.A1]

Some of the worst quality posting I’ve seen by far in that first page




Got damn .... dudes just bathing in stupidity .... and so proud of it too





nikkas gotta stick to 2k bruh .... please stop polluting the boards with this trash

 

[Swagnificent]

what's the difference between intentional and unintentional losing at the end of the day?

Intent matters in everything. There's a reason murder requires intent as a part of the legal definition. If you kill someone by accident it isn't murder. Its manslaughter.

What philly did was damaging to the NBA because it went against the spirit of competition which is critical to sports.

 

[AntoineWalkerShimmy]

The craziest thing about Hinkie and his drafting was that he wanted Porzingis at 3 but KP and his team wouldn’t release medicals for him/steered him to NY. Embiid + KP + Simmons

 

[phillycavsfan]

The craziest thing about Hinkie and his drafting was that he wanted Porzingis at 3 but KP and his team wouldn’t release medicals for him/steered him to NY. Embiid + KP + Simmons

They wouldn't have Simmons if they drafted KP. And if that's the case I'd rather have Simmons than KP.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Intent matters in everything. There's a reason murder requires intent as a part of the legal definition. If you kill someone by accident it isn't murder. Its manslaughter.

What philly did was damaging to the NBA because it went against the spirit of competition which is critical to sports.

The end result is the same though. Someone’s dead. In basketball it’s a results oriented business. They reached a point where they were done trying to win as much as possible only to lose in the playoffs or just miss the playoffs because they lacked the talent. We’re seeing this now in other sports too. More teams have the “if you’re not first you’re last” mentality. Especially Philly, they ain’t respecting those who don’t win.


How do you change that mentality without considering you a loser?

 

[NatiboyB]

Do you recall they had made the playoffs the season before the rebuild began? With Iggy and Thad Young they risked it all for Bynum and he said fukk the NBA...It would of been foolish to trend on the NBA treadmill in their market.

Do you morons not even remember what they had to do to get here?

Most of the other people in sports actually have the decency not to subject their fans and the league to INTENTIONAL LOSING for that long. From 2013-2016 the Sixers were intentionally losing in a way we've never seen before in competitive sports.

Do you really want a league where teams actually try to copy that shyt? If you do, then you don't care about the NBA.