Philadelphia 76ers: 4 takeaways from Elton Brand’s press conference

In the aftermath of Philadelphia 76ers head coach Brett Brown’s firing, general manager Elton Brand held a press conference to discuss the future.

It’s a new world for the Philadelphia 76ers. Their blowout sweep at the hands of the Boston Celtics marked a dismal end for The Process, undertaken by Sam Hinkie in 2013. While The Process has been litigated and re-litigated a million times by now, we can rest assured in the knowledge that it is no longer in effect and that a new vision must be enacted in Philadelphia.

The first step the Sixers took was to fire head coach Brett Brown less than 24 hours after Game 4’s final buzzer. It seemed like that would be just the first step and that general manager Elton Brand would be the next to follow, but if there’s anything we’ve learned about the Sixers, it’s that you can’t trust their ownership to do the smart and necessary things.

Maybe Josh Harris and friends are a little too kind and gentle with their employees, preferring to rarely fire them and instead make them uncomfortable and marginalize them to the point where their continued presence in the organization becomes untenable (that’s what they did with Sam Hinkie).

But that can’t be true, because the billionaire was set to cut wages for employees to save a few hundred thousand dollars during a pandemic until several dozen mean tweets talked him out of it.

If not kind and gentle, perhaps we can just chalk it up to complete and total incompetence and a lack of understanding of how to run a professional sports organization.

Anyway, Elton Brand spoke to the media on Tuesday, and we’ve got takeaways.