Brett Brown Deserves to Coach a Better Team Than Philadelphia 76ers

Brett Brown, Philadelphia 76ers,
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If there is a coach with a dilemma in the NBA, it has got to be Brett Brown of the Philadelphia 76ers. In three years, Brown has proven that he can coach up a group of vagabonds and rookies to do great things occasionally.

Then there is this year, where the group of vagabonds and rookies are sub-standard by even Sixers’ standards. Brown mostly babysat as the Chicago Bulls handed the Sixers a 111-88 loss on Monday night, the seventh loss in a row.

Ask any Philadelphia fan and not a single one would blame Brown for this dumpster fire that the franchise has become. While most people trusted what GM Sam Hinkie calls “the process,” that circle of trust has been broken this year and one of the casualties could be Brown, who deserves to coach better talent than this.

By now, most figured he would. In a perfect world, the Sixers would be starting an imposing front line of nearly all 7-footers in lottery picks Nerlens Noel, Joel Embiid and Jahlil Okafor. Instead, Brown had to wait a year while Noel sat out due to an injury and the year he waited for Embiid was compounded by the news that he will have to wait at least another. Hinkie drafted both Noel and Embiid knowing they were injury risks. That risk has certainly backfired.

Even Brown has to be questioning this flawed process and no one would be surprised if he had one eye on the exit door, and not a single Sixers fan would blame him for leaving. He’s too good a coach to be spending the next couple of years babysitting.

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