Nov 12, 2025, 01:49 PM ET<\/p>\n
Three words: “Trust the Process.”<\/p>\n
It was the strategy implemented by former Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> general manager Sam Hinkie before the start of the 2013-14 season. Former Sixers guard Tony Wroten<\/a> birthed the three-word mantra in a story<\/a> that appeared in ESPN The Magazine’s Analytics Issue on March 2, 2015.<\/p>\n The Process was Hinkie’s plan to turn around the franchise. Hinkle’s strategy was simple: Trade away key players, stockpile draft picks and use those picks to build a winner. The strategy led to the organization drafting eventual NBA MVP Joel Embiid<\/a> with the third pick in 2014. It also resulted in the team trudging through two of the worst seasons in league history.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Philadelphia lost its first 17 games during the 2014-15 season en route to finishing with an 18-64 record. The Sixers followed that with an 18-game losing streak at the start of the 2015-16 campaign and a 10-72 finish.<\/p>\n Hinkie<\/a> resigned in April 2016.<\/p>\n Here is a look at the most consecutive losses to start a season in NBA history:<\/p>\n 18 – 2015-16 Philadelphia 76ers (final record: 10-72)<\/p>\n 18 – 2009-10 New Jersey Nets (12-70)<\/p>\n 17 – 2014-15 Philadelphia 76ers (18-64)<\/p>\n 17 – 1999-00 Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> (9-41)<\/p>\n 17 – 1988-89 Miami Heat<\/a> (15-67)<\/p>\n 16 – 1994-95 Los Angeles Clippers (17-65)<\/p>\n 15 – 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers (9-73)<\/p>\n 15 – 1970-71 Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (15-67)<\/p>\n 15 – 1949-50 Denver Nuggets<\/a> (11-51)<\/p>\n Check out the ESPN NBA hub page<\/a> for the latest news<\/a>, analysis<\/a>, scores<\/a>, stats<\/a>, schedules<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 12, 2025, 01:49 PM ET Three words: “Trust the Process.” It was the strategy implemented by former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-280409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}