Sam Hinkie gave up because of his own human instincts.
And that's appropriate, because the lesson from his Philadelphia 76ers reign is the overriding importance of treating people like people.
Hinkie's "Process" had been compromised since December—every insider in the NBA knew old-school, no-nonsense Jerry Colangelo's arrival in the Sixers' front office meant the purity of Hinkie's tanking effort for future gain was ending—and Hinkie resigned as 76ers president of basketball operations Wednesday, as the team announced.
He personally couldn't go on if he was going to be treated as just an analytical voice instead of the "CEO: Chief Executive Oppressor" of all present-day hope.
And that's the funny thing about it...
Hinkie gives up because he feels he isn't being treated like the person he deserves to be treated as.
There's the rub: Everyone has human instincts—the young players put in impossible situations where they are expected to grow amid no chance of real success or proper suppor ...
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