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Tanking to the Top: The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports
By Weitzman, Yaron
- ISBN
- 9781538749722
- Publisher
- Grand Central
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Reviewed on March 1, 2020 | Spring Sports Picks
Tanking, wherein a bad professional sports team seeks to improve by first getting worse, is nothing new, but its poster children are the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers of 2013–16. Coming off a 2012–13 season of 34 victories in 82 games, the Sixers hired a relatively unknown general manager, Sam Hinkie, who proceeded to jettison the team's better players in order to save money to obtain second-tier personnel ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
