Brett Brown has agreed to a two-year extension with the Philadelphia 76ers, the team announced. Brown is in his third year as Sixers coach.
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Through it all though, Brown has maintained an unfailing commitment both to his players and the Sixers organization with his steady hand in the face of adversity being one of the only remaining reasons why Philly fans have not become totally disillusioned with “The Process”.
“I can’t see him surviving this”, an unnamed league executive said of Hinkie. His coaching record is 38-149 and this deal makes a world of sense.
And the prospect of that has to be music to the Brown’s ears, as the start of his National Basketball Association coaching career included much more loss – Jrue Holiday, Andre Iguodala and Michael Carter-Williams, to name a few – than gain.
Most head coaches in the National Basketball Association would be fired long before their overall coaching record with one team reached that mark, much less be given a two-year extension.
Before joining the Sixers, Brown was part of four championship titles with the San Antonio Spurs.
He took over when general manager Sam Hinkie began his ambitious rebuild, which involved completely tearing down the roster and building the team from scratch. “His tireless work ethic, his daily desire to consistently improve, and his resiliency line up with our core values as an organization”.
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The 76ers recently hired Jerry Colangelo to be Chairman of Basketball Operations, but their negotiations with Brown had started before that happened according to reports.
