No, there are never any guarantees, but Hinkie is increasing his odds of acquiring those kinds of players. For the cost of two of the Sixers' second-round picks this year and $26.7 million in salary between veterans Carl Landry and Jason Thompson, Hinkie got a big shooting guard who had been a lottery pick last year in Nik Stauskas, a 2018 first-round pick, and the right to exchange first-round picks with Sacramento in both 2016 and 2017. Based on trades Hinkie has made and his strategy of breaking the roster down to reconstruct it from rubble, the Sixers could have four first-round picks in the 2016 draft - with the option to flip their pick for the Kings'. Opportunity is there, loads of it, and anyone dying for the Sixers to accelerate their rebuilding plan will just have to wait one more year.