Hinkie is starting things off great.

[iowaigglefan]

Slam dunk A draft.

Stud to clog the middle for year
And another lottery pick next yrs draft,when much better talent will be available

Then adding a very good point guard to replace Jrue. and drum the NBAs first Iranian player. Oh and an additional 2nd rounder next season.

Now Hinkie will go get his coach.

This is the beginning of a turnaround for the 76ers.

You all will be singing Hinkies praise a a few years.

[Ground_Meat]

Last night was a debacle. Jrue was awesome here last season...stupid move.

[common wealth]

How much better were they going to get building around Jrue? They were a 34 win team. Rebuilding was the way to go, if they can add a couple of lottery picks next year (and they will have a bunch of money to spend) they could be pretty good in a couple of years. That wasn't going to happen before the trade.

The future for the sixers is brighter than it has been since Iverson was drafted.

[weizer]

The 2 guys they get in the draft have absolutely no offensive games, Noel is all defense and carter-Williams(lips) is a pass first 6-6 point guard. Who is gonna score? That said, it was a decent trade as far as value goes and the future lottery pick but I guess I am just not a (lips) fan, would have rather had Burke or McCollum.

[Eagle In Ohio]

Next year is the draft where you want to have multiple picks

The talent will be unbelieveable

[Loki]

Yes, his leading the Sixers to the playoffs was an amazing

oh...wait....Jrue is a nice player. He's a piece on a very good team.

[ishimonster]

How can you blame Jrue for the complete shit around him? Lebron could have taken that team to the playoffs, but not many others. Jrue was drafted at 19 and he was just coming into his own. I hope it works out but IMO MCM will never be as good as Jrue is going to be.

[J_Cuz31]

Slam dunk A draft.

I hope this works out. It would make it even more sweet knowing that fraudulent punk Bill Simmons was crapping on the Sixers' draft all night.

It's expected that a shameless Celtics homer would eschew remarks like that every chance he gets but seeing all these clowns exhalt Simmons like he is some type of even-handed analyst is sickening.

[J_Cuz31]

I hope it works out but IMO MCM will never be as good as Jrue is going to be.

Nobody is blaming Holiday but he isn't Chris Paul, Deron Williams or Derrick Rose so there was no reason to keep him around when he was more valuable to a team with more pieces in place.

I think the idea is that the two players they add next season will have higher upsides than Holiday.

Carter-Williams might work out, he might not, but this rebuilding process isn't about him.

[ishimonster]

Did you see Simmons after they announced the Celts-Nets trade? Dude was practically crying. Karma

[iowaigglefan]

The 2 guys they get in the draft have absolutely no offensive games, Noel is all defense and carter-Williams(lips) is a pass first 6-6 point guard. Who is gonna score? That said, it was a decent trade as far as value goes and the future lottery pick but I guess I am just not a (lips) fan, would have rather had Burke or McCollum.

Interesting carter-wiliams is considered the best defensive guard in the draft - has a good handle and distributes the ball well. But coming out of high school in 2011 he was considered a shooter first. Here is a bit from Scout.com
"There aren't many guys in the class of 2011 that can score with Michael Carter-Williams. A 6-foot-5 wing prospect, Carter-Williams has deep range on his jump shot and is capable of going off the dribble and scoring at all levels. From mid-range jumpers to floaters, Carter-Williams has it. Going forward he needs to get stronger, but that should come when he gets in a college weight room."
I believe 76ers GM did the research -- Maybe the not so hot shooting had to do with the system he was playing in and the fact he was now a pt guard not a shooting guard in college.

As far as Nerlens Noel goes the kid is game changer. He has the chance to be one of the top defensive Bigs in the league and a defensive player of the year type of guy. His offense will come he is young.

to sum it up here is what Chad Ford had to say

"I think the Sixers came away with a great haul on draft night," writes ESPN's Chad Ford. "Clearly they are going in full rebuild mode and will try to get a high pick in next year's stellar draft. [Second-round pick Arsalan] Kazemi is another favorite of the analytics crowd. He has a nose for the ball, hustles and rebounds. He's not a great scorer, but he's one of those guys who just makes everyone around him better."
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/...66Mj0bL5GU7.99

[McCarthy12]

You're nuts dude. They essentially traded a guy who would be the second or third best player on a really good team for two lottery picks. Everyone likes Jrue, but it was a no brainer for a team in their position.

[Ground_Meat]

The talent will be unbelieveable

I won't doubt that.


http://dimemag.com/2013/06/the-top-1...ars-nba-draft/

[Snakebitten]

Hinkie is the best GM in town (OK, he's the tallest midget). While I'm not that high on MCW, the guy has a plan that makes sense. Bring on the ping pong balls. Who would have thought??

Ironically, next year's draft is very similar to this year's NHL draft. Very deep. While nothing is guaranteed, the Flyers played themselves out of the Seth Jones sweepstakes (who may drop to second overall) by winning plenty of worthless games down the stretch. They needed to bring up the young guys.

Hinkie gets it. He positioned himself with a fighter's chance in next year's deep draft. That's how it's done. Wiggins has the talent to be the guy who makes the Sixers relevant again. No doubt.

It's odd nobody mentions the Arnett Moultrie trade. The first-round pick obtained by the Heat is lottery protected in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Should the pick not come free in any of those years, the Heat would get a future pair of second-round picks.

[Sect 236]

Wiggins and Parker are franchise and NBA landscape changers IMO.

If the Sixers don't end up with one of those two, it's going to really suck.

Knowing Philadelphia sports luck like we all do, they'll end up with the Croatian.