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Message: [QUOTE="Walker11, post: 2072967, member: 380"] Chris Mannix on the current state of the 76ers. [URL='http://sports.yahoo.com/news/why-the-76ers-should-be-thanking-sam-hinkie-145925655.html']LINK[/URL] I couldn't have said it any better. I match his opinion to a T, even the bit about doing a full 180. [I]That[/I] Hinkie. I’ve done a 180-degree turn on Hinkie. For years I joined the chorus hammering the former general manager and president of basketball operations of the 76ers for showing no interest in winning. I traveled to Philadelphia and sat through midseason games where at times the media came laughably close to outnumbering the fans in the building. I watched Hinkie roll out rosters headlined by Hollis Thompson, Jerami Grant and Tony Wroten, and wondered how the NBA could let Hinkie get away with it. Nearly four years after Hinkie was hired and you wonder: Does anyone in Philadelphia regret the era? Three straight sub-20 win seasons were painful, and watching Hinkie trade away established talent (Evan Turner, Michael Carter-Williams, etc.) for draft picks was worse. But here are the Sixers, exactly where Hinkie hoped they would be, loaded with elite young talent and primed to be the heir to a post-LeBron James conference throne. [/QUOTE]