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Sixers fans celebrate Sam Hinkie by raising banner at draft lottery party

Sixers fans are the best.

by Whitney Medworth

Our friends over at Liberty Ballers Blog host a draft party each year, and once again it appears to be the strangest and best thing that has ever happened. Ahead of the 2017 NBA Draft Lottery, fans raised a Sam Hinkie banner to wild applause:

Yes, the video starts with someone mic’d up saying “SAM F***KING HINKIE.” Hinkie was “effectively fired” in late 2015 but the “Trust the Process” still lives on to this day.

The banner isn’t the only exciting thing that happened at the party. Someone else got engaged! She said, yes:

Sixers fans are fantastic. Here are the chances they have tonight at the lottery.

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