Nobody Does It Bretter
In the depths of the initial months of the season, the 1-30 Philadelphia 76ers were ripe for a meltdown of epic proportions. The team was struggling so desperately that the team had become the easy target in countless articles decrying the Sixers right to play in the NBA.
And yet, head coach Brett Brown found a way to keep up the team spirits. You see, Brett Brown is not cut from the standard mold of an NBA head coach. In accepting the role as head coach of this team, he knew full well the pain and torture of a prolonged losing streak would mean to the team and to it’s individual players. He knew his role would be to focus on team-building, postive feedback – because the NBA and fans of the sport would be providing an endless supply of negative feedback.
It’s that understanding for what is needed and when it is needed that places Brett Brown solely as THE man for the job of coaching this young team. And so, one of the first orders of business of Jerry Colangelo was not to undermine nor to replace the head coach, but to extend him as a show of confidence in the man who had guided the team through the darkest moments of an NBA team rebuild.
Philadelphia coach Brett Brown has agreed to a two-year contract extension, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 11, 2015
Nowhere else is that impact more visible than the results of Brown on the development of the center position.
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