I bet they’re great at removing bloodstains.

Ah, Gawker Media. Where no joke goes without causing offense.

Which guard/wingman would you have taken in ‘14 and ‘15 instead of Embiid and Okafor?

Giannis is a hindsight selection, too. Like look at all the other “geniuses” that passed on him. He was far from a lock, just another unknown with alleged “upside.”

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Nonsense. LeBron coming back to Cleveland is the ultimate outlier when looking at team management. It is indicative and instructive of nothing. Getting the best player in the world to come back to his home town due to extreme personal regret and obligation isn’t “assembled through free agency.”

Ever since they traded Jrue he has been unable to stay healthy for a season. MCW was traded for the Lakers pick meanwhile MCW has completely flattened out in Milwaukee to the point Giannis is the starting PG. The last I’ve seen KJ he came off the bench to hack Drummond I believe it was 5 times in a row. Payton is not…

I think part of it is Philly is a very strange place when it comes to the Sixers, which is ironically the most historically successful of the big four pro teams. There’s virtually no difference in excitement/attendance from when the team was an 8th seed in the playoffs a few years ago to when they were in last place.

Well, what is the more efficient way? Compete for a late lottery and mid-teens pick and hope they can snag a Kawhi? The draft is a complete gamble as is free agency and trades and etc., but the top players in the NBA are usually high lottery picks which is why teams every year blatantly tank for them. And when Hinkie…

Except they have a couple of solid rotation guys. Noel, Covington, McConnell, and Hollis Thompson.

Bernanko keeps judging them by his standards (wins the last 3 years) even though that was clearly not what Hinkies was concerned about. He dismisses it as some kind of con because there are no tangible results to judge him by, but that’s the case for any long-term investment. It’s like mocking a co-worker for his…

Yeah, I’m sure Vlade Divac would have been a much better GM. Sacramento loves what he’s doing there and can’t wait to swap 1st round picks with the Sixers next year and send us their 2019 first round pick, all for that sweet sweet cap space used to sign Rajon Rondo. What’s Billy King up to these days? When Rob…

Is The Process complete know?

What were the opportunity costs? a 33 win team? Ben McLemores rookie year? Dante Exum and Elfrid Payton?

Did we know anything about Andrew Wiggins when he played on a team worse than the Sixers? Because whilst he was doing that, Nerlens Noel in his rookie year, was leading a ‘tire-fire’ team to a 13th ranked defence.

You’re taking 5 picks and assuming two of them are bad players without seeing them play. Taking one which Hinkie knew wasn’t that great and turned it into a very valuable pick. And Jahlil averaged 17/7 on extremely efficient numbers with no other shot creators. I don’t think he’s worthwhile to build around because of…

You’re also forgetting that Tristan Thompson was drafted #4. You are wrong, this team’s foundation is through the draft. Kyrie, Tristan, Love (Wiggins)

This article is similar to the puff piece about Hinkie that it criticizes, in that it provides little balance to its claims.

No, I don’t think that. But I also don’t think that if he were drafted by the Knicks or the Lakers he’d have spent one second in a Cavs uniform.

I’m in line with Deadspin ideologically on just about everything, but Hinkie is a major exception. I really do think that, in spite of how painful it was, he had the right idea for maximizing the team’s chance at an eventual championship. Obviously a #1 pick is never guaranteed, but most of the real impact players go…