Report: Brett Brown To Return As Sixers Head Coach
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Brett Brown isn't going anywhere. According to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, Sixers managing partner Josh Harris has said Brown will be returning next season.
Brett Brown will return as the Philadelphia 76ers coach next season, managing partner Josh Harris told ESPN on Monday night. Harris, Brown and GM Elton Brand met today to discuss offseason priorities, including draft and free agency.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 14, 2019
On Sunday, a report surfaced that Brown needed "an NBA finals berth to keep his job." The Sixers were eliminated in the second round of the playoffs on a heartbreaking Game 7 buzzer-beater from Toronto's Kawhi Leonard Sunday night.
During Monday's end-of-season press conferences, many Sixers vocally offered their support for Brown as head coach, including Joel Embiid calling the report "bulls---."
The Sixers finished the regular season with a 51-31 record, good enough for the No. 3 seed in the East.