Kristaps Porzingis and his agent, Andy Miller, pretty much went out of their way to make sure KP didn’t wind up in Philly, with the habitual losers in the Sixers. No young player really wants to go into an environment where they want you to lose but each year, someone has to be picked by Philly. Porzingis was not going to allow it to happen.
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Miller did all he could to prevent the Sixers and their general manager Sam Hinkie from getting any solid info on KP. Even when Philly tried to get around Miller it didn’t work.
Miller didn’t make it easy for Philadelphia to draft Porzingis at No. 3. The Sixers wouldn’t be afforded Porzingis’ physical, nor get a private workout, nor even a face-to-face meeting. After most of the pro day executives cleared out of the gym in Vegas in mid-June, 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie lingered to meet with Miller. Hinkie stopped him in the lobby area and asked Miller about a chance to sit down and visit with Porzingis.
“You said that I would get a meeting with him here,” Hinkie told Miller.
“I said, ‘I’d try,’ and it’s not going to work out, Sam,” Miller responded.”
The Sixers eventually passed and decided on Jahlil Okafor which wasn’t a bad pick in its own right. Still, somewhere Knicks fans are reading this with a smile.
