The 76ers G-League affiliate was since rebranded as the Delaware Blue Coats. After he retired from the NBA, he soon found his way into the Sixers front office and then became the GM of Philly’s G-League affiliate, the then Delaware 87ers. Prior to his hiring, Brand was a seasoned veteran who played for 16 seasons in the NBA, including a handful of those with the Sixers. With a year passed and the new season just lingering around the corner, it seems only appropriated that all of the moves that Brand made in his first year as GM should be graded.īrand was hired after the infamous end of former president of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo.
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20th, 2019 marked a full year that the Philadelphia 76ers front office has operated under general manager (GM) Elton Brand.
The Athletic is planning to do a player bracket of Clippers players of the past 30 years.Emeka Okafor (Photo by Ned Dishman/NBAE via Getty Images) It’s been around a year since the Philadelphia 76ers hired one of their former players to take over the role of general manager. Clippers 1-v-1 (bracket) tournament coming: Everybody loves brackets, heck, we’ve done some brackets ourselves here at Clips Nation.He cited the dangers to service workers who would need to work with the NBA as well as the players themselves, calling it all “too dangerous.” Barkley says restarting season “too dangerous”: Charles Barkley was on the Dan LeBatard Show on Monday and said he still does not believe the season should restart.This would seem to indicate both sides are truly hopeful they can get back to playing in the coming months, although the nuclear option is not fully off the table down the line. Nuclear option on CBA put off: Over at ESPN Adrian Wojnarowski reports the league and NBPA have agreed to put off the league’s right to cancel the Collective Bargaining Agreement to September.And that’s why he is the best to have worn No. His exit left a sour taste, but averaging a double-double, being a two-time All-Star, an All-NBA Second Team selection and being the face of the franchise for seven seasons made Elton Brand one of the best to play for the Clippers. And the disarray in the fallout of his departure eventually led to Blake Griffin’s selection in the NBA Draft and the start of the Clippers’ surge. You could argue that the Clippers actually dodged a bullet to an extent - Brand was certainly serviceable but never returned to his pre-torn Achilles abilities, and was really disappointing in Philly. They got their man, but instead of Brand re-upping, he managed to get a huge contract off a major injury from the Philadelphia 76ers and bolted, the plans of the Clippers finally, finally getting a core of players together to make a run falling apart. Coming off a long-term injury, Brand opted out of the final year of his huge contract and there seemed to be an expectation he would re-sign at a lower price so the Clippers could pick up Baron Davis. Still, Brand isn’t beloved due to a perceived switcharoo he took to leave the team.
Here’s one of his great performances, a 40-point game in the playoffs in 2006:
Honestly, he would be a stellar second option, but instead he was tasked with carrying the franchise load on and off the court his whole career, and carved out a very good but not spectacular run. In seven seasons, Brand played 459 regular-season games for the Clippers, averaging 20.3 points and 10.3 rebounds a game, always a good stat line in the NBA.
It would have been nice if Brand and Odom had been able to build together on the Clippers, but hey, in the old days the Clips would have kept neither of their budding stars. The result is that Brand was the cornerstone of the Clippers, while Lamar Odom ended up going to Miami instead.
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He was a star, although he wasn’t regarded a true elite around the league, but the Clippers did the unthinkable and matched the Miami Heat’s expensive contract offer for Brand in the summer of 2003 when he was a restricted free agent. The forward/center had an All-Star season in 2001-02, posting 18.2 points and 11.6 rebounds per game that year. 1 overall pick in the 1999 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls, and after two seasons there, he was traded to the Clippers for Tyson Chandler’s rights and Brian Skinner. 42 for the Clippers, but there’s one clear - if possibly not beloved - choice as the best among that lot, and that’s Elton Brand.īrand was the No.
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