The Philadelphia 76ers may not have to look very far to find Daryl Morey\u2019s successor.<\/p>\n
Retired former NBA All-Star point guard Nelson is a candidate to replace Morey as Philadelphia\u2019s next head of basketball operations, Tony Jones of The Athletic reported this week<\/a>. Jones further notes that Nelson is the \u201cstrongest internal candidate\u201d for the position.<\/p>\n Nelson, 44, already currently serves as the assistant general manager for the 76ers. He also had a lengthy playing career in the NBA from 2004-18.<\/p>\n In total, Nelson played for six NBA teams (the Orlando Magic<\/a>, the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>, the Boston Celtics<\/a>, the Denver Nuggets<\/a>, the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a>, and the Detroit Pistons<\/a>). But he was best known for his run with the Magic from 2004-14, including serving as the starting point guard on Orlando\u2019s 2009 NBA Finals team and making the NBA All-Star team that same year as well.<\/p>\n Nelson first began with the 76ers in 2020 as the assistant general manager of their G League affiliate, the Delaware Blue Coats. In 2025, Nelson was promoted to the assistant general manager of the NBA team.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the 76ers fired Morey earlier this month after six seasons as their president of basketball operations. Former Golden State Warriors<\/a> general manager Bob Myers is leading the search for a new 76ers president, and Nelson (who also has a professional basketball player son<\/a>) will be receiving strong consideration for the position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia 76ers may not have to look very far to find Daryl Morey\u2019s successor. Retired former NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,1332,7086,48,6,47,76,3883,207],"class_list":["post-741413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando-magic","tag-basketball","tag-daryl-morey","tag-jameer-nelson","tag-magic","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlandomagic","tag-philadelphia-76ers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116620599528333197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741413","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=741413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}