Sixers general manager Elton Brand is “expected to be among the candidates pursued” by the Atlanta Hawks in their search for a new basketball operations leader, according to a report Monday afternoon from Marc Stein and Jake Fischer of The Stein Line:<\/p>\n
This report comes less than an hour after the Hawks abruptly announced that general manager Landry Fields had been relieved of his duties and a search would begin for a President of Basketball Operations.<\/p>\n
Brand, 46, completed his 17-year NBA career by playing in Atlanta for two seasons. He retired, but\u00a0within a handful of months\u00a0came out of retirement before spending his final campaign in Philadelphia, where he had played for four seasons earlier in his career.<\/p>\n
In the years since his final retirement in 2016, Brand has been a quick riser within the Sixers’ front office, going from a player development consultant to the general manager of the organization’s G League affiliate to becoming general manager of the Sixers, becoming the lead decision-maker in the front office following the Bryan Colangelo “Burnergate” saga which forced Brand’s\u00a0predecessor out.\u00a0Brand has since settled into a role as the team’s second-highest-ranking front office official, ceding authority to Daryl Morey in 2020 when the veteran executive was hired as President of Basketball Operations.<\/p>\n
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