When he was originally hired by Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, the sense was that Bob Myers wouldn’t focus specifically on the Sixers and wouldn’t have a major voice in the team’s basketball operations decisions. Myers’ new position required him to be involved with the company’s other sports holdings, including the NHL’s New Jersey Devils and Crystal Palace F.C. in the Premier League, and seemed to focus more on big-picture business decisions rather than day-to-day basketball moves.
Still, the remarks that he and Sixers managing partner Josh Harris made at last week’s press conference in the wake of Daryl Morey‘s dismissal strongly suggested that Myers’ influence in the 76ers’ basketball operations department is increasing, according to Marcus Hayes of The Philadelphia Inquirer (subscription required), who got the sense that Morey’s replacement might end up being more of a “figurehead” while Myers takes on more responsibilities. Is that actually the case?
“Josh desperately wants Bob to run the team,” one source told Hayes. “Bob desperately does not want to run the team.”
Hayes adds that a team source disputed the idea that Harris is “desperate” for Myers to run the Sixers’ front office.
Either way, Hayes writes, Myers isn’t working out of Philadelphia and has no plans to do so; he also continues to oversee the progress of Harris Blitzer’s other teams. With that in mind, Hayes argues that it’s imperative for the 76ers to hire a “capable, autonomous” executive rather than one who will have to frequently defer to Myers on day-to-day decisions.
We have more on the Sixers:
- Paul George was limited to 37 regular season appearances in 2025/26 due to injuries and a 25-game suspension, but he’s healthy entering the offseason and is looking forward to taking advantage of that fact by embarking on a “real summer of improving,” writes Gina Mizell of The Philadelphia Inquirer (subscription required). “It’s been stagnant the last couple years because of a surgery here or a surgery there,” George said. “… So this summer should be a better summer, in terms of working on my game.”
- Yossi Gozlan of The Third Apron (Substack link) previews the Sixers’ upcoming offseason, considering whether trading Joel Embiid and/or George this offseason is viable and evaluating what new contracts for several of the team’s key free agents might look like. Gozlan has Kelly Oubre Jr. in the range of $9-10MM per year and wonders if Philadelphia might be able to re-sign Andre Drummond on a minimum-salary deal.
- Would it make any sense for the Sixers to trade Tyrese Maxey and build around VJ Edgecombe, with an eye toward contending again with a younger group after the George and Embiid contracts expire? Adam Aaronson of PhillyVoice weighs the merits of the idea but ultimately concludes it’s not realistic.
As always F Marcus Hayes
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You actually aren’t allowed to make comments like this. It breaks TOS. You can criticize someone, but the specifics have to be stated. Your comment as it stands, aggressively breaks TOS.
This is ironic. How many times have you told anyone that disagrees with you that they don’t know ball??? 😂
1. you constantly talk crap to other posters saying things like they are dumb, have no idea what they are talking about etc. Pot meet kettle.
2. Hayes deserves it.
1. Yes and I always do it to people who did it to me first. I mostly do basketball takes on here, I dont really care about haters takes.
2. Okay, explain why then? Post links etc. Just mindlessly saying a journalist sucks is a waste of time.
I’m not doing your research for you. If you lived in the Philadelphia area you’d know.
You can do it as much as you’d like though Davey. And nobody at all thinks you’re a baby back you know what for it!
If I’m the sixers I would let Oubre and Grimes walk.
I do like Oubre, but can understand the need to allocate scarce salary elsewhere.
Literally scorch the earth as much as you can, keep Maxey and VJ and try and move everyone else and just start over.
My suggestion for the Philadelphia warriors, go scorch earth, move everyone but moody and just start over. A aging team that won’t get out of the West for a decade.
That sounds like what an evil owner would do. 🤔
I’m not sure we can find someone to give us 24-30 quality minutes like K9 at that price. I’m all for letting Grimes walk, sign and trade or keeping him for around 5-8 mil for a trade or cap/trade filler down the road. I’d make keeping Oubre a priority.
Oubre is extremely mid/bad. Plenty of better SFs out there.
Hey, Dave. Remember when you posted this?
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What should your punishment be?