5 reasons the Sacramento Kings need to hire Sam Hinkie

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Oct 8, 2015; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie (R) talks with chief executive officer Scott O’Neil (L) before a preseason game against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Wells Fargo Center. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports /

2. Let the experts do their jobs

Everyone has specialties, and matching specialties and responsibilities is good practice in an HR sense. Don’t ask the IT guy to draft a profit-loss statement and don’t ask the accountant to fix the network servers.

Hypothetically, the Kings front office has some specialties. Vivek Ranadive brings general business acumen and experience from his time in Silicon Valley. Vlade Divac has experience with players, evaluating talent and potential, and connecting with them as colleagues. Obviously they aren’t the only two members of the Kings front office, but they are the most powerful and the most visible, and their venn diagram of specialties has GM responsibilities that aren’t covered.

As we alluded to in the previous slide, Hinkie is an expert in asset management. You can quibble with his draft selections and the way in which his particular brand of asset management may have alienated some of the human beings on his basketball team, but that’s what the Kings have the lovable Divac for. Let Vivek come up with the creative ideas. Let Hinkie pare them down to what’s reasonable and design a plan of action. Let Divac sell it with a big smile.