With the NBA Lottery tonight and the Sixers holding a 1% chance of landing the #1 pick thanks to Sam Hinkie, there’s no better time to look back and learn about the Process, one of the most controversial and successful front office gambits in the League’s history.

And there’s no better way to learn about the process than to read, watch, and listen to the definitive articles, videos and podcasts of the Process. We’ll take you through a 8-lesson course (we had to round up from 7.6), quizzes and all, and by the end, you’ll know more about The Process than Bryan Colangelo (if you don’t know who that is, all the more reason to continue!).

This course will take 4–5 hours, which is much, much shorter than the Process itself.

And remember, when things get tough, Trust the Process.

Lesson 1: Wikipedia Page About the Process

Quiz 1:

Lesson 2: The 76ers Rebuild

Quiz 2:

Lesson 3: Mike Levin recaps the process in 90 seconds

Quiz 3: Surprise — no quiz! Just going to let you soak in that stream of consciousness and pick up some of the emotional flavor of the Process. Quiz load management.

Lesson 4: Who is Sam Hinkie?

Quiz 4:

Lesson 5: Sam Hinkie’s Resignation Letter, read by the Rights to Ricky Sanchez crew 😢

Quiz 5:

Bonus: The pdf of the letter

Lesson 6: The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo

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Lesson 7: Dario and Elton interviews on the Ricky

Quiz 7:

Only on the Dario Piece, starting at 1:15:00. GM Elton is Post-Process.

Lesson 8: The Process is Over by T.J. McConnell

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OK, that’s it. You’re now one of the only people in the world who can claim that you have an online degree in The Process. Put it on your LinkedIn, tweet about it, call your parents. You were the first. And if you’re not first… you might as well be last.

If you’ve completed this course, tweet me @packym with screenshots and I’ll send you a personalized Process Diploma.

Special thanks to Rights to Ricky Sanchez, Bill Simmons, The Ringer NBA Show, iNerdSome, The Players' Tribune, TJ McConnell, Sam Hinkie, Spike Eskin, Michael Levin, Dario Saric and all of the people who have put out so much great content on one NBA franchise’s rebuild plan.

Bonus Content: The Process lives on. If you want to keep exploring, we got your bonus content right here.

Definitive History of the Process

15 Players Who Defined the Process

Former 76ers Oral History of the Process

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