The Local Media Makes Me Want to Bash My Head into a Bamboo Desk

I’m typically more moderate than most Sixers fans in my thoughts on Sam Hinkie. I completely understand and celebrate what he did, but also think moving on was best for the Sixers, seeing as though Hinkie had burned many bridges that will need to be crossed as the process is now firmly in phase 2.

But I can’t, for the motherfucking life of me, understand how so many in the local media simply can’t grasp that Hinkie was not running some sort of fraudulent Ponzi scheme on behalf of ownership to defraud Sixers fans and the league. Rather, he was intentionally losing, yes, in order to stockpile the sorts of assets and picks that now have people suddenly fawning over the Sixers. HOW DO YOU NOT GRASP THIS, NICK FIERRO of the Allentown Morning Call?

WTF?

Why would he do that? Why would Sam Hinkie, after three years of losing IN ORDER TO GET THE NUMBER ONE MOTHER F-ING PICK trade the NUMBER ONE MOTHER F-ING pick?!?!?! Why. Statement– not question. Rhetorically, why. What is wrong with you and the other countless doubters – smart, decent people otherwise – who simply can’t process (heh) why all of that wretched losing was actually a reasonable and even sound strategy to build a winner?

It’s this simple: If you like where the Sixers are at right now – with Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid, Jahlil Okafor, Nerlens Noel and Dario Saric – then you applaud what Sam Hinkie did. Full stop. His losing literally did this. Just look:

This was the Process, you inexplicable stuffed cheesesteaks.

Fierro’s Tweet implies – or at least I think it does – that Hinkie never wanted to win and would simply prolong the losing until he got himself fired. Why, on the Earth, would someone whose career apex is NBA GM intentionally and indefinetely sabotage an entire franchise? He wouldn’t. To imply that the Sixers never want to win and simply want to cut costs while team value increases, all in order to sell at a huge profit in a few years, is a critique (and not a totally far-fetched one) of ownership, not the GM. This seems obvious to me. But who knows, maybe I’m the fatty sandwich, with wiz.

But assuming that Fierro approves of Bryan Colangelo drafting Ben Simmons and the US-ian existence of Dario Saric (never mind the fact that two years ago, when Hinkie acquired Saric on draft, Saric said he would come over this year), which I think Fierro does, then the perpetual-losing accusation falls flat. It falls to simply having a problem with Hinkie, who would’ve had no incentive to spike an NBA franchise for no reason, and who is responsible for all of the top-flight assets the Sixers currently possess. It falls to some sort of inferiority complex among neanderthal local media members who can’t comprehend that the best path forward isn’t always to put your head down and plow ahead like a retarded woolly mammoth.

Sometimes it’s OK to pause, wait for society to advance, and then build a fucking plane to fly to your destination. Yesterday, the plane landed – FUCKING LITERALLY – and that, you simpletons, is what we call progress.