{"id":740184,"date":"2026-05-21T12:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/740184\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:57:15","slug":"jameer-nelson-to-be-promoted-in-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/740184\/","title":{"rendered":"Jameer Nelson to be promoted in Philly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From his beginnings in Chester, Pa., to his storied career at Saint Joseph\u2019s and a terrific NBA lifespan for a small guard, to a front-office career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia 76ers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Philadelphia 76ers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>, Jameer Nelson has permanently etched his name in Philly hoops lore. And it looks like he\u2019s going to take another step forward. Multiple league sources tell The Athletic that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7295492\/2026\/05\/21\/sixers-president-search-jameer-nelson-bob-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nelson, among others, is a candidate to become the 76ers\u2019 next president of basketball operations. He is Philadelphia\u2019s strongest internal candidate, as he served this season as assistant general manager. Even if Nelson doesn\u2019t come away with the obvious vacated spot last week when the 76ers moved on from Daryl Morey, he is a favorite to receive a promotion,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Nelson, among others, is a candidate to become the 76ers\u2019 next president of basketball operations. He is Philadelphia\u2019s strongest internal candidate, as he served this season as assistant general manager. Even if Nelson doesn\u2019t come away with the obvious vacated spot last week when the 76ers moved on from Daryl Morey, he is a favorite to receive a promotion,&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Nelson, among others, is a candidate to become the 76ers\u2019 next president of basketball operations. He is Philadelphia\u2019s strongest internal candidate, as he served this season as assistant general manager. Even if Nelson doesn\u2019t come away with the obvious vacated spot last week when the 76ers moved on from Daryl Morey, he is a favorite to receive a promotion,<\/a> league sources say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7295492\/2026\/05\/21\/sixers-president-search-jameer-nelson-bob-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From his beginnings in Chester, Pa., to his storied career at Saint Joseph\u2019s and a terrific NBA lifespan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,1332,3225,7086,8871,6,678,207,3817,4837,8796],"class_list":["post-740184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-76ers","tag-76ers","tag-basketball","tag-daryl-morey","tag-front-office","tag-jameer-nelson","tag-league-sources","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia76ers","tag-storied-career","tag-the-76ers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116612683752219502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740184","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=740184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}