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Photo Credit: Brace Hemmelgarn-USA TODAY Sports

When your plan is to lose, there are some things you have to worry about: developing a losing culture, losing the interest of fans, and breaking team chemistry because everyone is expendable. While the Sixers have been swapping and moving and dumping players at a brisk pace since Sam Hinkie took over, it’s the latest move that has given head coach and human Brett Brown pause.

Brandon Davies is now a Brooklyn Net, and Brett’s pretty bummed about it.

Anyone who has watched the Sixers’ games this year has seen Davies grow as a player. Some of that growth has been on the talent side, but he’s been diving and running all over the floor, making up for his shortcomings in talent with exceptional effort. That’s the kind of guy, at least according to Brett Brown, you like to keep around.

“He always played with that reckless abandon,” Brown told reporters. “He is one of those low-maintenance guys that teams look for who want to have high-character, solid people at the 15, 14, 13 roster spots. I think his better days are ahead of him because he improved with us.”

Brown knows it is the nature of the league, however. From CSN Philly:

“When you start losing people that you are very fond of and have tremendous respect for … there is a human side of it that bothers me because you are trying to grow chemistry, you are trying to grow a culture. That takes a hit when teammates lose teammates. There is a respect, effort-wise, of how they go about their business. There is a reality to our job that is just business in the NBA, but it doesn’t mean it has to feel right … Stability is not a word that comes to mind very often with where we are at with the Philadelphia 76ers.”

It’s actually nice to see Brown show some emotion about losing players that he had a relationship with. It shows that the team, while it may change, has some chemistry right now. But really, he’s going to probably have to get used to this. Hinkie treats players like chips at a charity auction. Just drop a few here, a few more over here… and maybe one of them will help me get something I really want.