"This is difficult, emotionally and intellectually," Hinkie wrote two years ago as he left the Sixers to his successors. "It's much more comfortable to have people generally agreeing with you. By definition, those opportunities in a constrained environment winnow away with each person that agrees with you, though."
On this item, Hinkie was correct in spirit but perhaps not in practice. It turned out that plenty of people agreed: an idealistic head coach and his staff, a franchise player, a rabid segment of the fan base that made him a martyr and a host of imitators in front offices around the NBA. All the while, very little is winnowing away for the
Philadelphia 76ers.
"The Process is never going to end," Embiid said.