{"id":19440,"date":"2025-05-08T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/19440\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:54:08","slug":"sixers-elton-brand-withdraws-from-hawks-front-office-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/19440\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers&#8217; Elton Brand Withdraws From Hawks&#8217; Front Office Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixers general manager Elton Brand has withdrawn from the Hawks\u2018 search for a new head of basketball operations, according to Jake Fischer of The Stein Line (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JakeLFischer\/status\/1919918908389073057\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Brand was the first candidate linked to the position, having been <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/04\/hawks-fire-general-manager-landry-fields.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">identified<\/a> by Fischer and Marc Stein as a potential target for Atlanta on the day the team fired general manager Landry Fields. Fischer and Stein subsequently <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/05\/latest-from-stein-fischer-hawks-president-search-iisalo-suns-coaching-search-doncic.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> that Brand spoke to the Hawks about the job.<\/p>\n<p>Brand spent a couple seasons as a Hawk during his playing days and has \u201cstrong relationships\u201d within the franchise, according to Fischer, who previously noted that the Sixers GM shares an alma mater (Duke) with Hawks minority shareholder Grant Hill and coach Quin Snyder.<\/p>\n<p>However, Brand has opted to remain in Philadelphia under president of basketball operations Daryl Morey. He made a similar decision in February 2024 when he was considered a possible frontrunner to replace Mitch Kupchak in the Hornets\u2019 front office, with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2024\/02\/elton-brand-doesnt-intend-to-pursue-hornets-job.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reporting at the time<\/a> indicating he opted to remove himself from consideration for that role.<\/p>\n<p>Brand was named the Sixers\u2019 general manager in 2018 and ran the front office until 2020, when Morey was hired. The former No. 1 overall pick has been the No. 2 man in Philadelphia\u2019s front office hierarchy since then.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks promoted Onsi Saleh after firing Fields, making him their new GM, but they envision Saleh eventually holding a role similar to the one Brand has in Philadelphia and reporting to a new president of basketball operations. Calvin Booth and Monte McNair, who were recently let go by the Nuggets and Kings, respectively, have also been mentioned as possible candidates for that position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixers general manager Elton Brand has withdrawn from the Hawks\u2018 search for a new head of basketball operations,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,4189,6,678,207,3817],"class_list":{"0":"post-19440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-elton-brand","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","14":"tag-philadelphia76ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114474206129000577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}