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Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via In the first of our Stay or Go series, we look at big man and restricted free agent Paul Reed. Daryl Morey and the rest of the Philadelphia 76ers have quite the summer of decisions ahead of them. With several members of last season’s rotation about to hit the free agent market, the team once again must choose how much of a core to retain that failed to make it past the second round of the playoffs. They currently have zero picks in the upcoming draft, so the open market is the only opportunity they’ll have to make changes for...

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/ Nick Nurse is a Sixer. Will James Harden be? Jimmy Butler is back in the NBA Finals and will forever haunt us. The Philadelphia 76ers continue the trend of hiring head coaches with names based in the medical field. First, they tried a “Doc” with Glenn Rivers, and now, the next head coach is a Nurse. (That is confirmed. Last week, it was more of a question, but it’s official, now.) If Nurse doesn’t work out they can hire an ...[insert medical field pun]. So Nick Nurse is the new head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers. Nurse brings his...

Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Here’s one potential avenue for Daryl Morey to explore this offseason. New Philadelphia 76ers head coach Nick Nurse was available on the open market at least partially because some friction had reportedly built up between he and his former Raptors players. Now, such things tend to happen when a coach remains the head man for five years and it’s not necessarily any cause for concern. Still, it was good to see the feeling wasn’t universal among his former squad, as 29-year-old former All-Star guard Fred VanVleet was quick to note his...

Rivers joins Frank Vogel and Kevin Young as finalists. According to John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports, former Philadelphia 76ers head coach Doc Rivers is one of three finalists for the Phoenix Suns’ head coaching position. Rivers was fired by the Sixers earlier this month after a third consecutive second-round exit. Phoenix fired its own head coach, Monty Williams, following a second straight second-round exit. Suns assistant Kevin Young and former Los Angeles Lakers head coach Frank Vogel join Rivers as finalists. Young spent 2017-20 as an assistant in Philadelphia before...

Steve Russell/Toronto Star via James Harden is likely to become an unrestricted free agent. We’ve heard rumors he didn’t always get along with Doc Rivers, and many guessed he’d have preferred Mike D’Antoni to replace Doc. So how might he feel about Nurse? ESPN Sources: Nick Nurse has reached an agreement to become the next coach of the Philadelphia 76ers. Nurse — who won an NBA championship and a coach of year award with Toronto — now gets to coach the 2023 MVP Joel Embiid. pic.twitter.com/SrsXhzx7Y3— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 29, 2023 The...

Photo by Megan Briggs/ Win or go home, everybody Boston Celtics (3-3) vs. Miami Heat (3-3) - 8:30pm ET - TNT Three seconds left, a missed shot, and a putback with one or two tenths of a second left on the clock to win the game and prolong the season. It will be nearly impossible to top the end of Game 6 for drama, but if it could be done, it would be in a Game 7 with a trip to the Finals on the line. The Miami Heat have been one game from ending this series for the better part of a week, but after the Celtics reasserted themselves as the better team for a pair of games...

Photo by Omar Rawlings/ The former Toronto Raptors head coach and 2020 NBA Coach of the Year is headed to Philadelphia. The Sixers’ search is over as the organization is set to name Nick Nurse as the new head coach in Philadelphia, a source confirms to Liberty Ballers. The move was first reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski: ESPN Sources: Nick Nurse has reached an agreement to become the next coach of the Philadelphia 76ers. Nurse — who won an NBA championship and a coach of year award with Toronto — now gets to coach the 2023 MVP Joel Embiid....

Photo by Jim Poorten/NBAE via Jimmy Butler drained some huge free throws. Officials Zach Zarba and Josh Tiven made a very curious call. Then Derrick White gave Boston the chance to go onto make history. No team has ever come back from down 3-0 out of 149 tries in the NBA. But the Boston Celtics have found a way to tie this Eastern Conference Finals series vs. Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo, and the Miami Heat. It’s now 3-3 heading back to TD Garden. Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and co. headed into Game 6 as just the 12th team to even push a series to six games after...

Photo by Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via It’s a make or miss league. Miami Heat (3-2) vs. Boston Celtics (2-3) - 8:30pm ET - TNT Maybe you completely checked out of the NBA playoffs after the Sixers vomited all over themselves in the fourth quarter of Game 6 and the second half of Game 7. I wouldn’t blame you, that’s probably a good mental health decision. Or maybe you closed the book on these Eastern Conference Finals when the Heat were up nine in the third quarter of Game 4, looking to finish off a shocking sweep. Since then, however, things have gotten, dare I...

Photo by Omar Rawlings/ Sam Cassell and Monty Williams were among other favorites for Philadelphia’s opening at head coach. Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Each week, we send out questions to the most plugged in Philadelphia 76ers fans, and fans across the country. Sign up here to join Reacts. The Sixers’ head coaching vacancy seems to be a six-horse race among Nick Nurse, Monty Williams, Mike D’Antoni, Sam Cassell, Mike Budenholzer and Frank Vogel. Thus far, it’s been reported that Nurse and Vogel have interviewed with the team...

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports An earlier report offered that Nick Nurse pulled out of the running for the Bucks head coaching vacancy, and soon after we’re hearing a reunion with Morey is very much enticing to the 2019 champion. With Philadelphia on the hunt for its next head coach to replace the recently fired Doc Rivers, we’re paying close attention to the NBA’s annual coaching carousel. One name that has continued popping up in rumors to perhaps fill the Sixers’ vacancy is former Raptors coach Nick Nurse. The Sixers interviewed the 2019 championship-winning...

Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports The Milwaukee Bucks, a Conference Rival, let Mike Budenholzer go, and are not moving forward with Nick Nurse, leaving two Sixers candidates on the market. The Philadelphia 76ers fired Doc Rivers and have a list of six coaching candidates they’ll thoroughly vet to fill their vacancy. We ranked the six candidates they’re looking at, including Mike Budenholzer, Frank Vogel, Mike D’Antoni, Nick Nurse, Monty Williams, and Sam Cassell. The Sixers interviewed former Lakers, title-winning head coach, Frank Vogel already. But fans who...

Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via The Sixers won’t have much financial flexibility this offseason even if James Harden leaves, which could limit their ability to retool around Joel Embiid. The Philadelphia 76ers might be stuck between a rock and a hard(en) place this offseason. If James Harden heads back to the Houston Rockets as a free agent, the Sixers won’t have much financial flexibility to retool around reigning MVP Joel Embiid. That could incentivize them to pony up for the soon-to-be 34-year-old, although the specter of the NBA’s punishing new collective...

Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Joel Embiid is coming off an MVP season. The Sixers’ history of trading MVP-caliber players is nightmare fuel. We have again reached the Spring of Sixers Fans’ Discontent. The season ended in a shambles. Doc Rivers is gone. James Harden could be going. And what of Joel Embiid? Fake trades have already begun to emerge, the result of idle hands, social media and, well, business as usual in the NBA. Would the reigning MVP not, perhaps, want to go to the Knicks, given his ties to Leon Rose? And if not there, wouldn’t he want to go to...

An extensive list of accomplished coaches available for Philadelphia. Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Philadelphia 76ers fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Since the Sixers fired head coach Doc Rivers, a list of six candidates have been linked to the vacancy: Mike Budenholzer, Nick Nurse, Monty Williams, Frank Vogel, Mike D’Antoni and Sam Cassell. Three of them, Budenholzer, Nurse and Vogel, have patrolled the sidelines for three...