You don't think it honestly had more to do with the fact that their tanking was so blatant that their attendance dropped to 13,000 for years , their revenue tanked, any team they went to visit also lost money on tickets and revenue because no one wanted to watch a bunch of bums play who didn't belong in the nba , they had the third worst record of all time
and it was clear that even after 3 years of this - that Hinkie had NO plans to try and do anything except tank more and get more picks....
The NBA didn't step in until all the other owners and the fans of the league were so disgusted by how blatant the tanking was that they had no choice....
For a perspective of how bad and blatant 2015-2016 was the 76ers before the NBA stepped in
their Minute Per Game leader was Ish Smith, who not counting of his two short stints in Philadelphia was a bit player/role player who averaged about 5ppg the rest of his career
Nerlens and Okafor at least were young players - they were bad but it makes sense to play them minutes, so a pass here
Isaiah Canaan who like Ish, was a fringe bench player who somehow played 26 minutes a game in Philly despite being awful
JaKarr_Sampson a D League scrub who played more 300% more games in his 1.5 seasons with Philly than he did the rest of his entire fucking career
Hollis Thompson another D league scrub who outside of the "process" playing as a scrub getting 28 minutes a game in Philly being awful --- played a total of 9 other games before being cut and vanishing
Like it wasn't like the 76ers were just not a good team - they intentionally sent out a roster of fucking bums that had no business being in the league
I read all of this and I find it very compelling.
thots?