The Process Was Built On Failure: Chapter 1.

Hinkie built the Process to Fail.

What Initialized  As An Unassuming Thought, Study, And Venture InTo  Why the Sixers Failed To Make The Finals This Season, Suddenly transubstantiated Into The Sordid Epoch of The Franchise, Known To Most As The Much Malaise  “The Process.”  Here Is Some of the Views and Assumption  Of Its History,  Where Its Stands Within The World Of  Basketball Philosophy, The City Of Philly, The NBA  As A Business And Us, the  Fans, Today--Also the Corona Virus Made A Guest Appearance; Forgive Me.

 Sam Hinkie Obsessed Over The Calculation For The Optimal Factors And Limits that equated to Unparalleled  Success. When The Thrity Something-Year-Old Former Business  Student Emerged From His calculus cave In Houston  He The Reigns And barriers for Sixers  Front Office Seeking To bridge A Tenuous transition, into The Data deluge Take Hold Of The League.  Their Quick Start To the future Would require Drastic Steps Backs. Hinkie Philosophy, through the Process, Is Where The Success Will Be found. But Hinkie  Never Define The Rails For  Success Within the Process, And Subsequently, His Experiment was Designed To fail.

It’s About the Culture. Losing Is A Habit.

“Philadelphia has to be cautious in making wholesale changes.”

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In 2021’ An, NBA Space-time Odyssey, We Have the  Philadelphia 76ers, The Association Greatest Catalyst for Change. The Sixers, Joel Embiid, Sam Hinkie And “The Process,” the Decisive Calculated Tear Down Of The  Franchise, Which Began Nearly A decade Ago, And Was Pronounced Dead, Prematurely In 2017, There Has Been No few Delta’s, And Change In Model Varied Greatly From Anything The League Had Proposed BeforenIt.

 Along  The Way – And Now, as Of 2021—The Process has Claimed  Both Hinkie and The franchise As Victims, Sacrifices, In The  Marching Towards  Fulfillment, Completion, towards Perfection, Towards Change.

 The Virus,--in A Morbid Sense--The Catalyst Of Change had To Invoke More Change. In Responds’ The Mass Of Studies and Legislative Implementation design To deter It, Instead Influenced Its Mutations.

The Process Has To Take On this Same agenda; Changes Are needed Because it Has To Grow. Hinkie concocted the Process In A Lab, Inn The Minds Number Crunchers sought To expedite the “Process,” The “changes” required To Build An NBA contender. Had There Been A formula for constructing  A contender That Existed Before  The Process Had Unveiled Itself, The Formula Certainly wasn’t A Universal Applicable One.

For a decade, The Model for An NBA Champion Was Issued As Followed, Own A Team In The Big Market, Strike Big On Transcendental Talent On the Draft night, and Fortify your Draft Exceptionalism With Any Number Of Peripheral Draft Night Prospects And Late Round “steals.”

When The Undertaking Is marked, Stage 2, assemble An Assortment Of cast Away free Agents; They Too could Have been Heralded First Rounders who failed to Fulfill The Brilliant Acclaim. Now the Veteran Has found His way Aboard Your Team hoping For Endure, The wheels That Control the Turns Of The NBA Life Span.  They  Miraculously revive  Their Career Ans Become the Pivotal Part Of the Trun To championship Glory; Think 2004 Pistons.

The Final championship Build Mold, Is  “debatable. And So The Process Became And  Grew Out Of its Detestable formula Into The Prevailing  Development  Model For Improvement. Then The ignoble Inspiration,  for Other Major Sports Franchise  To  Frame Their Course Towards Success--Presuppositional-ly.

The Process Took the “only Thing” That Matter In Sports And Made It, weel, Nothing.  It Flips winning On Its Head And Made It The Tail-end Of Their responsibilities. In 2012-2013, The Sixers Were A descending Frtom the Equidistant Competitive Middle of The Road Eastern Conference Team. They were Young, And Exciting. Lead By rising Talents Thad Young  And Jrue  Holiday. The  Year Prior, Heatles Had  Formed In Miami; The Bulls were Still Holding On To Their competitive Value, Carmelo And The Knicks Could  And Paul George Pacers all Near The Peak Of Their Powers  It Became Clear For The Sixers, That If The Team was Not to Be Colored In Playoff Losses, It Would Have To “Reframe Things” – Primarily, the Losing.

In theory, The the Concept, Work s. The NBA Rewarded Team For Failure, Gifting the team With the Best record The Highest percentage Of Chane To Eran The best Player Prospect entering the League—a 25% Odds. Of course, this has Not Always Worked, And Maybe That is why the Process started.

In 2008 The Heat, The Comics(thunder), And Timberwolves Held The Best Odds To Win the NBA Lottery, 25%, 19%, and 13%, respectively. Ultimately,  The Odds of Fortune Would Favor The Bulls Who Rose Form 1.7% Secured Derrick Rose And with Him Immediate Blossomed  Into The Playoff Picture And Shortly After  Finals Contention. Derrick Rose And The Bulls Could Be Though of AS Sone The Reagents  For The Process.

 The Bulls Made A East-West-Latitude-ness Transformation With Derrick Rose on the Roster. Rose Immediately Inspire Awe. Derrick Rose could Only compare his Presence to What Ones Carmelo Anthony And Dwayne Wade Gave the Nuggets And Heat some years Earlier. In Rose, the Sixers Got A Glimpse of Lottery Capital When Used To Great Exception Cloud Yield.

In 2012, The Sixers, Who Had Then Gain Their Very Own  Lead Guard In Allstars Jrue holiday. Came Face-to-face, With the Fixture of Their Future and A Near Early Playoff Exit. When Derrick Rose, Lottery Turn Luxury, Now The League’s Youngest MVP Lead the Bulls into The eastern conference Playoffs. The Best team And the NBA's Number One Seed in the East, Facing the Sixers, Who Were Only 4 games Over.500 In A Lockout Season.

The Bulls Handled The Sixers Decisively in Game 1. The Sixers Were Not Going T Hav with Luxury Of Allane Iverson walking through The Halls To Score 40. This Young Squad Would Have To fend for Themselves Against The MVP. Game Two,  A Win For The Sixers That Ultimately  Shifted The Tide And Define The Series, And The Careers Of All Involved. With The Lead In Hand,  Decidedly the Bulls Were  Down Double figures The Clock Racing Towards 0:00. The Bulls coaching Staff should Have Been Preparing For Game 3, With the Sixers Holding A Double Digit Lead Late in the Forth, 2 Mins To Go, But They Weren’t. The MVP, The Franchise Luxury, Was Still On The court Running The Offense. Suddenly, In A moment, Notice The Basketball World Collectively  Got Tense And Froze In Time For A Moment. Derrick Rose, And His Seemingly Indomitable Genetics, Stardom and Momentum came Crashing Down, along with the Bulls Hopes Of A Championship. That Night In 2012, Derrick Rose Torn His ACL, Shelving Him inactions And His Stardom In Limbo For The Better Part of 4-5 Years.

The Sixers Recovered And Won the Series In Six. Philly Moved On To The Second Round and A Matchup With Their transgenerational Rivals, The  Celtics. This Series  Was A competitive One That Would Mark the End Preprocess Sixers. In 7 Games, The Series And Celtics   Waged War. The Series  Would Serve As The Sixers last Playoff Series Under That Regime, Under That Head Coach, Under Winning.

 From Here, The Sixers Wouldn’t See The Playoffs Again Until 2018. The Sixers Would Hire Sam Hinkie As Gm, And Spurs’ Assistant Brett brown As a coach. Then The Entered The Process.

The Sixers and Hinkie Didn’t Brandish Their Intentions, At Least Not Immediately.  Under the Guise Of rebuild And Initiative, The Process Began With Some enthusiasm. Hinkie Was Thought Of As A Revolutionary, A forerunner For The Coming Ananlystic Apocalypse Destine Sweepm Across The NBA.

The Sixers Welcomed Sam Hinkie.

Sam Hinkie Is  The Second Most famous face Of The Process, And No matter that Joel Embiid Is the Most famous Face, There Would Be No Process Without The Brain trust Who Conceptualized and Codified The Principles.

Hinkie, Now The Former Sixers’ President, Took An Unconventional Avenue into His foray into Basketball. The Stanford Business school Grad began his career in private equity and venture capital. Portrayed As an “angel investor and adviser,” Hinkie Held responsibility for Several startups As part Of. A team At Bain And. Company Management. Along The Way, His interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence Ballooned Into A Near Obsession. This Obsession Would Form the Basis To The Analytical Approach Hinkie Would Bring  To  Sports.

Hinkie, “hoped Using formulas, statistical models and data-centric philosophies that will reduce risk” Leading Ultimately To shrewder decisions That Are Proposed To Help Build a team from the ground up. As His Hike Patroned The Vacant Sits In wells Fargo Center, he Studied The Floor, the Bottom, and Saw The Future.

“he’s trying to make decisions that make sense today but might pay bigger dividends down the road.”

When He Secure The Job As Sixer’s chief Executive, Hinkie  Was Portrayed More As A Villian To The basketball Orthodoxy And The “Anti Analytics Mob.” AsNHinkie fame Rose, His personal  Mystique Deepened.  He was the Cold Calculated numbers. Guy And Nothing More.

One Of the First  Fruits Of tHe Daryl Morley School of Basketball Academia First Homed In Houston. The Data Revolution Emerge and Enveloped Within The NBA As Teams Sought More Innovative Ways To “ improve their chances of success.” Hinkie Spent * seasons in Houston Before The Allure Of Leading the Charge Of His Own. Hinkie Got A Blank Slate.

In Houston,  The Rockets Were testing, replacing, and pushing All basketball Conventions to the Extremes. Hinkie Served Under the Rockets Executive As A Lieutenant And Understudy. The Rockets Balatsed The Established Stratas  Of the Conventional Center Position, isolation and Spacing play AN d There Point Shooting, Sending The Latter Two As weel As Offensive Efficiency Into Galaxy unexplored, and The former Into Oblivion.  The Approach Pushed Houston To the Brink Of Finals contention. Hinkie’s extremes Would Soon Push the Sixers Asynclitism.   In His Tenure with Sixer’s Hinkie Become famed, Reproached, And one of the most talked-about and debated figures in modern NBA history.

For All The Data Discourse, It’s Quite Possible Hinkie  Himself Hadn’t In Earnest Comprehend What He Had Engineered. Hinkie watched over the games and judged every action based on probabilities—Obsessoning Over The Shared Value Of A Missed And A Converted 2 point field Goal. Once The Process Began Its Roll Out, Hinkie regularly Patroned The  Stands In Wells Fargo. Seemingly  More Of An  Observer Than An Orchestrated.

 Then Came The Perception. The Process Was  An Undertaking With Peculiarities like no Other. “There Is Nothing New Under The Sun” The Saying Goes. Teams Have ‘Thrown” Games To Avoid unfavorable earlier Playoff Matchups, As The Clippers Were Accused of This Season,  Or Just Being Bad, Like The Clippers Of The Early to mid-2000s who Exhausted Draft capital Before fielding A Contender. But The Process, Was Different, It Was  An Undertaking Meant Self Sabotage Rather Than Simple Being Incapable. The NBA Was Designed To Help the Raise team Into contention, And for The most Part, it had been A Success. The Sixer Reversed This And Used The Draft As Reason To Remain In poor Standing.

The Sixers Traded Holiday, summer 2013, One Of The First And Some Infamous Moves Made Throughout The Course Of The process. The Numbers Would run To Around 27 trade Transacted That would Come To Define Philly During This Period. The Sixers Secured The Rights To Nerlens Noel, A Promising Big Man Battling  Injuries  Coming  Out Of Kentucky. Along With Noel, The first-round Pick in 2014 From The Pelicans.  Fro Here Hinkie And The Sixers Set off To Sey What Was  To That Then A Venture for The Accolades For The Global Standards In failure.

The Teams Lost 26 Games In A Row in 2013 Tying The NBA’s All-Time Mark For Losing. Surprisingly Enough, The Sixers Didn’t earn The Worse Record In the Wins Lost Column That Year; The Bucks  Lost sixteen And The Best Odds in the Lottery.

During The Build-Up Of, inTo And The Lines Of the Course that ran Through’, The Process. Sixers’ Brass Appeared Equable About The Criticism and  Rebuke  That Began To Spring Up Fan Most =ly media Officaiacl Hell Bent on Framing The Process As A Cynical Apaorcah To the Eebs And flows that Run Through NBA Title Hopefuls, Rather than A Innovative If Ill-conceived Initiative That Could Remodel The League; Which It Did.

  The Process Was believed to Be Organizational and Structural  Competetive Malpractice.  A Completely  Legal “method Of Operation” But Panned by Near Everybody Outside And Philly ANd Some Within.