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Shams Charania: Sources said Elton Brand will not return as 76ers GM and is currently working through a new role with the franchise and its parent company, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment. Brand, well-respected throughout the 76ers’ organization, elected not to interview for the President role after the team parted with Daryl Morey and has been fully supporting the team’s ongoing Draft prep.
Sixers assistant general manager Jameer Nelson is widely expected to be promoted to GM under Gansey, who will replace Daryl Morey and report for Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment president Bob Myers. It's believed that Elton Brand, who worked as GM under Morey, will be offered another position within the organization.
Michael Scotto: Jared McCain on Daryl Morey trading him: “It’s never to prove anybody wrong. I try to keep a positive outlook. I like proving my support system right. Daryl’s still the guy that drafted me, so I’ll always have love for him for that. He believed in me enough to take me at No. 16.”
Jared McCain on Daryl Morey trading him: “It’s never to prove anybody wrong. I try to keep a positive outlook. I like proving my support system right. Daryl’s still the guy that drafted me, so I’ll always have love for him for that. He believed in me enough to take me at No. 16.” pic.twitter.com/nZdfbwUOE0
— Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) May 23, 2026
StatMuse: Fun Fact: Jared McCain has scored more points in the Conference Finals than the last six 76ers lottery picks combined. Eddie Johnson: The King of Analytics, couldn’t use this guy in Philly.
On Feb. 3, however, he found out he was being traded to the Thunder. “I was on the bus with the Sixers and we were heading to the airport in San Francisco. We just played Golden State,” McCain said. “I texted my agent for a gym in L.A. and he called me, and I think he’s calling me about the gym. He is like, ‘They’re about to trade you.’ Then [then-Sixers president Daryl Morey] called me five minutes later and told me I was traded. It was pretty wild, and I started crying immediately. “Those are my brothers and still are my brothers to this day. It was definitely tough. They thought I was joking when I told them, and then I started crying. Then they were like, ‘Oh, this is serious.’ Then we got off the bus and they all came up to me and I still went on the plane with them to L.A. I still miss Philly to this day. I never was able to see my house again because we were on the road. It’s little things like that. I miss my routine, but I’m definitely blessed to be here.”
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From his beginnings in Chester, Pa., to his storied career at Saint Joseph’s and a terrific NBA lifespan for a small guard, to a front-office career with the Philadelphia 76ers, Jameer Nelson has permanently etched his name in Philly hoops lore. And it looks like he’s going to take another step forward. Multiple league sources tell The Athletic that Nelson, among others, is a candidate to become the 76ers’ next president of basketball operations. He is Philadelphia’s strongest internal candidate, as he served this season as assistant general manager. Even if Nelson doesn’t come away with the obvious vacated spot last week when the 76ers moved on from Daryl Morey, he is a favorite to receive a promotion, league sources say.
Draymond Green: “Bob Myers has been to Daryl Morey almost what Michael Jordan was to Stockton and Malone. You’ve done great work. I mean, I’m not saying Daryl Morey is Stockton or Malone, but you’ll get the reference in a second. You’ve done some great work, right? You traded for James Harden when nobody believed, gave him a max contract, and then James Harden proceeded to become who he became. You built a team with the Houston Rockets that was a very good roster, built to beat the Golden State Warriors. It didn’t quite happen, but you built a good team. You go to Philly and sign Tyrese Maxey to a max deal, right? He’s done some good things in Philly, just can’t quite get over the hump. And Bob Myers — Daryl Morey couldn’t get over the hump due to teams that Bob Myers was putting together. And now Daryl Morey is going to lose his role as the president of basketball operations due to Bob Myers making the basketball decisions in Philly. He’s more than capable, well-deserved, and should be making basketball decisions anywhere. But Daryl Morey just kind of keeps running into Bob Myers, and it’s unfortunate.”
Tim Bontemps: As the Philadelphia 76ers embark on their search for a new team president after firing Daryl Morey on Tuesday, the consensus from sources around the league is that no matter whom Bob Myers chooses to run basketball operations, there aren't many levers to pull to significantly improve the team in the short term. "Run it back, load manage Joel [Embiid] as much as they can, be a playoff team and try to stay healthy," a West executive said. "I think there's stuff you can do on the margins."
Marc Stein: Bob Myers says at a Sixers press conference in the wake of Daryl Morey's dismissal that he will communicate "five to seven days a week" with the new head of basketball operations hired to succeed Morey. The goal, Myers says, is to have a hire in place for the June 23-24 draft.
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Among other players the source said the Sixers made runs at, unsuccessfully: Naji Marshall of the Dallas Mavericks, Donte DiVincenzo of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Brandin Podziemski of the Golden State Warriors and Ryan Dunn of the Phoenix Suns. None of those players were moved.
The Sixers, the source said, offered the Chicago Bulls multiple second-round picks for reserve big man Jalen Smith; Chicago held onto him. Their primary target, PhillyVoice learned, was Aaron Wiggins, one of Oklahoma City's many trusted reserves. There was hope that the talks with the Thunder about McCain could lead to a deal also involving Wiggins – the Sixers would have needed to send out multiple other players in the process – but ultimately the deal ended up centering around McCain, with Wiggins staying put in Oklahoma City, where he has recently fallen out of the rotation thanks in part to McCain's arrival.
Krejčí would certainly not have been a "needle-mover" – he was not a playoff rotation player for Portland – but he would have represented a new lever Nurse could pull. He would have given the Sixers a bit more optionality on the wing and some much-needed three-point shooting. But the Sixers misread Krejčí's market and, in turn, mistimed their efforts to acquire him, the source said. When the deadline came and went without the Sixers adding a single player to their roster, that relatively minor miscue probably stung more than it typically might.