Sam Hinkie Resigns as 76ers GM: Takeaways from Former Exec’s Resignation Letter

April 6th, 2016 by Alec Nathan Leave a reply »

Sam Hinkie stepped down as general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers Wednesday evening, according to an official statement from the team, and the sprawling 13-page resignation letter he sent to the club's investors became public shortly thereafter. 

The letter—which exceeds 7,000 words in total and was made public by ESPN.com—explores the path the team charted since he was hired in May 2013, but it does so in a wholly unique way. 

Over the course of the letter, Hinkie cites the likes of Abraham Lincoln, billionaire Warren Buffett, Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk, physicist James Clerk Maxwell and baseball writer Bill James, as he seemingly found a way to connect basketball to every component of a college curriculum, according to The Vertical's Chris Mannix: 



However, USA Today's Sam Amick noted Hinkie's jargon-filled manifesto wasn't exactly out of the ordinary: 



In a section of the letter titled A Reverence for Disruption, Hinkie's unconventional line of thinking became clear when he used several non-basketball analogies to explain how innovati ...

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