Sam Hinkie is a graduate from the Mike Price School of Business at the University of Oklahoma. He’s from a small Oklahoma town named Marlow. After graduating from OU he went on to get his MBA from Stanford. My son graduated from OU as well and heard Hinkie speak at some function at the OU School of Business. He said he seemed like a fairly smart guy. But maybe not some guy you hire to run your entire basketball operations for the next seven years.
As this yarn has played out in Philadelphia–I’ll say this, Sam Hinkie may be a guy you hire as someone to head your analytical department of your team, but not someone to be ultimately making basketball decisions on his own. Consequently–the blame for most of this goes to the people who endorsed Sam Hinkie’s ascension to the job in the first place.
Here’s the actual 13-page manifesto resignation ‘letter’ he wrote and beneath a critique of the entire situation in Philadelphia as of now.