With OKC winning a NBA title, Presti is going to complete what Hinkie wasn't allowed to

[mksp]

A lot of revisionist history here!

From Philly's board:

OKC is The Process with good decision making all the way through. What could have been had Silver not interfered with us...

OKC is The Process that started with Paul George and Russell Westbrook instead of Jrue.

Hinkie -> joined a treadmill organization with Jrue Holiday, Thad Young and Spencer Hawes as his three best players, after overseeing 2.5 seasons worth of games (before Jerry Colangelo snaked his way into the org), created a foundation of:

1. Embiid on a rookie contract
2. The rights to the #1 pick in the draft (Simmons) on a rookie contract
3. Room for max contract #1
4. Room for max contract #2
5. Robert Covington on a Hinkie special
6. Dario Saric about to come over on a rookie deal
7. Jerami Grant on a Hinkie special
8. Richaun Holmes on a Hinkie special
9. TJ McConnell on a Hinkie special
10. Lakers top 3 (later top 5) protected
11. Kings unprotected
12. 2 Kings pick swaps
13. 2 extra first round picks in 2016
14. Okafor in talks to go to Boston for the Jaylen Brown Nets pick
15. Noel is still being talked about as a near max guy
14. Innumerable 2nd round picks

He turned water into wine.

verdict: Negative reputation.

Sam Presti -> Revered as some sort of archetypal revolutionary for throwing a temper tantrum and blowing up a roster because he couldn't build a winner around Kevin Durant or James Harden, and then sent Paul George away for 10 first round picks.

[djsunyc]

hinkie also destroyed team culture

[mksp]

hinkie also destroyed team culture

what a winning argument!

[Capn'O]

Sam Presti started this recent rebuild from much higher, thanks to the great team building done by Sam Presti.

This was his second Process after the one he did to gut the team prior to moving from Seattle. He's just been quiet and professional about it instead of writing manifestos and running around like the Wizard of Oz and claiming he invented gluten. I actually don't think Hinkie was bad but that's why he got blackballed.

3. Hinkie didn't have the experience of Presti. Presti has been doing this a long time Hinkie was just starting. Presti made many more mistakes early on in his career people like to forget like keeping Perkins over Harden and many draft misses. I expect Presti would not have made that decision again.

This is an interesting point that I hadn't considered. I just was looking at Presti's return for Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis. Jeff Green's remarkable longevity notwithstanding, it was... not good. But then he did some pretty pretty good drafting to make up for it soon afterwards

[FarBeyondDriven]

it's pointless bringing up Hinkie since he wasn't allowed to complete the process.

[MrTribbiani]

If OKC wins, I'll give Presti the credit that he had been getting undeservedly in previous years.

In previous years, some folks acted like Presti was Krause 2.0 even though he had previously only assembled one roster that went to the Finals (2012). For years many folks kept heaping praise onto him just for accumulating draft picks like a drunk orangutan.

[JR Hawks]

LOL that Hinkie and their fans created a name for it and talked about it publicly. Morons.