A Rare Conversation with Former Philadelphia 76ers GM Sam Hinkie (Re-Air)

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🗓️ 27 November 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

When the Philadelphia 76ers announced they were hiring Daryl Morey to be their president of basketball operations, it turned heads across the NBA. Not just because of Morey's track record with the Houston Rockets, but because of his close relationship with former 76ers GM Sam Hinkie. Hinkie's tenure with the 76ers was polarizing. With some accusing him of tanking and turning the team into a laughingstock, and others admiring his long-term vision for the team's success...a vision that has come to be embodied by the now ubiquitous phrase "Trust the Process." Hinkie, who was ousted from the franchise in 2016, now works not in basketball but in business, and has founded a venture capital firm called Eighty-Seven Capital. In a re-spin of an ESPN Daily bonus episode, Hinkie joins Pablo Torre for a rare, wide-ranging interview that covers his time with the Sixers, his exit from basketball, and his perspective on life away from the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Pablo, and we at ESPN Daily are hoping that you're all enjoying the holiday weekend with your loved ones in the safest way possible.
0:09.5	Today, amid the madness of NBA Free Agency, I wanted to bring you a bonus episode that originally ran on October 30th.
0:17.0	It's a long conversation I had with Sam Hinky, the former president NGM of the Philadelphia 76ers.
0:23.5	And I really think it's worth your time, whether you care at all about basketball or not.
0:31.9	Three, two, one. So welcome to an emergency, special bonus episode of ESPN Daily.
0:39.9	We're about to break format here, or we'll try to at least, because you're going to hear a conversation with a person I consider one of the most unique minds in sports, someone who I wanted to talk to on the record for a really, really, really,
0:56.3	how many more reallys can I throw in here, Sam Hinkie?
0:58.6	Really, really long time.
1:00.0	Sam Hinky, welcome to ESPN Daily.
1:03.4	Hi, Pablo.
1:04.9	Sam, let's be very clear about what's happening here.
1:08.0	You don't really talk to people in this way very often. You have
1:12.3	reminded me for a long time as a mixture of like, and I say this with all the complimentary nature to
1:19.4	it, I hope you receive, but there's like a J.D. Salinger aspect. Maybe Greta Garbo is more your speed,
1:24.9	Wizard of Oz kind of thing. So why are you breaking said
1:29.0	silence with me right now? You're lifting expectations. I don't know if I can keep up,
1:35.3	but I'll I'll do my best. I do talk every day. I just don't talk to you and your colleagues at ESPN
1:43.1	on television every day.
1:46.4	It's not every day you get a chance to gas up one of your friends who just had something
1:50.3	awesome happen in their life that happens to coalesce with a bunch of my life.
1:56.4	So that's why.
1:59.0	Yeah, well, let's get into it because Darry, your former boss, colleague, your friend,
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