Bonus Episode: A Rare Conversation with Former Philadelphia 76ers GM Sam Hinkie

ESPN Daily

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4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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When the Philadelphia 76ers announced this week 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. He joins Pablo Torre for an extremely rare, wide-ranging interview that covers his time with the Sixers, his exit from basketball, and his new life away from the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Three, two, one. So welcome to an emergency special bonus episode of ESPN Daily. 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
0:22.9	wanted to talk to on the record for a really, really, really, how many more reallyes can I
0:28.8	throw in here, Sam Hinkie? Really, really long time. Sam Hinky, welcome to ESPN Daily.
0:34.9	Hi, Pablo. Sam, let's be very clear about what's happening here. You don't really talk to
0:41.2	people in this way very often. You have reminded me for a long time as a mixture of like, and I say this
0:47.8	with all the complimentary nature to it, I hope you receive, but there's like a J.D. Salinger aspect. Maybe Greta Garbo is more
0:55.5	your speed. Wizard of Oz kind of thing. So why are you breaking said silence with me right now?
1:02.8	You're lifting expectations. I don't know if I can keep up, but I'll, I'll, I'll do my best. I do talk
1:09.6	every day. I just don't talk to you and your colleagues at ESPN. Uh, but I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'm
1:17.9	every day. Um, it's not every day, you get a chance to gas up one of your friends who just had something
1:21.5	awesome happen that, and in their life that happens to coalesce with a bunch of my life.
1:27.7	So that's why.
1:30.3	Yeah, well, let's get into it because Darrell Morey, your former boss, colleague, your friend,
1:36.9	just got hired this week to do your old job, which is president of basketball operations
1:41.6	at the Philadelphia 76ers. What was your reaction to that news?
1:48.4	I was stoked. I'm stoked now. I think it's great news. I think it's great news. He's not a good hire.
1:54.3	He's a great hire. It's a really big move for the franchise. For a franchise I care a lot about
1:59.1	with a bunch of people that I care a lot about. And I just think it portends really great things for the future for the Sixers,
2:06.7	which remains to this day, remains meaningful to me. And so I'm stoked. First of all,
2:13.3	did you know before I knew, which is to say, did you know before Woj tweeted about this on Wednesday afternoon?
2:20.5	Oh, Pablo, the nature of compounding trust with people over a long period of time is being
2:25.5	careful about what you say and what you know.
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