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Why Hinkie Got Executive of the Year Votes (Forget the Draft for Just a Second)

Folks are so focused on the draft, that we're not taking free agency seriously. $60M in cap space? Forget the draft for a second. Forget the top free agents.

With $60M, we can take Derrick Rose ($22M), maxx out Evan Fournier ($21.5M), and bring Dion Waiters home ($16.5M). Three competent to above average NBA guards--two young ones with upside, and one an expiring contract. I know you don't like Rose and Waiters. But who else are we going to give that type of money?

Don't get freaked out about "maxxing" Fournier. He's not getting the $30M that Dwight Howard is eligible for. Or even the $26M that Kevin Durant's getting. Fournier's "rookie" max of $21.5 is only 60% of what Chris Paul will get next year when the "veteran" max will be $35M. Waiters $16.5M will be less than half of what Paul's making.

Derrick Rose will still be the highest paid member of the team.

Did we mortgage the future? IN 2017 WE'D STILL HAVE $50M IN CAP SPACE!!!!!!! The cap goes from $92M to $108, while the Sixers shed Rose ($22M), Landry ($7M), and Stauskas ($6M).

That's how dope we are set up! We have five first round picks over the next two years. So, no matter how the draft goes this year or next year we're ADDING Simmons, Ingram, Murray and/or Dunn to:

Derrick Rose, Evan Fournier, Robert Covington, Jahlil Okafor, Joel Embiid

Dion Waiters, Nik Stauskas, Jerami Grant, Dario Saric, Nerlens Noel

No need to pick for fit! BPA.

Look! We don't even have room for on the third unit for TJ, Landry, Hollis, Richaun, PHI, LA, OKC, MIA!

We need to trade into the 2017 draft, so we HAVE to give Chicago TJ and Richaun, to clear roster space and to guarantee that the Bulls give us their rights to SAC17 along with Derrick Rose.

Tell me why we can't pull this off? I know you don't want Derrick Rose or Dion Waiters. But tell me why we can't get them? We can drop our demands for Chicago's rights to SAC17. We can even offer Orlando a first round pick(s) to let go of Evan Fournier.

If Hinkie were here, I'd be confident that next summer we'd be sitting on:

$50M+ cap space, PHI16, LA16/17, MIA16, OKC16, PHI17, SAC17, SAC19 Dion Waiters, Evan Fournier, Robert Covington, Jerami Grant, Dario Saric, Jahlil Okafor, Nerlens Noel & Joel Embiid.

Free agency? Draft? Trade? Whatever!!!! Summer 2017 is hot for point guards, in free agency and the draft. We have the ammo!

Hinkie gets a second and two third place votes because this is how good it can get in a year's time if we get two guys nobody here wants and also way overspend on someone folks kind of like! Forget the stars, forget unreasonable expectations, if Bryan Colangelo can't even get us Dion Waiters and Evan Fournier, why is he here????

Imagine if BC is even better than Hinkie...

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