The Sixers are reportedly poised to add Phil Handy to their coaching staff.<\/p>\n
Andscape and ESPN\u2019s Marc J. Spears reported <\/a>Friday that Handy is \u201cfinalizing a deal\u201d to join the Sixers as an assistant coach.<\/p>\n Handy had been with the Mavericks since last summer. <\/a>He goes way back with Sixers head coach Nick Nurse; Handy played for Nurse as a member of the British Basketball League’s Manchester Giants.<\/a> Nurse had Handy on his staff with the NBA champion 2018-19 Toronto Raptors. That title is one of three on Handy\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9. \u00a0<\/p>\n He\u2019s worked closely with many stars, including new Sixer LeBron James.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always felt like the best players, they want to be coached,\u201d Handy told Spears in 2020 after the Lakers clinched the championship.<\/a> \u201cThey want to be challenged, too. And I think it\u2019s a two-way street, so our job is to coach. It\u2019s not about necessarily being friends. It\u2019s about coaching the game. Stick to the facts of what it is.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Like Sixers assistant coach Rico Hines, Handy has become a well-known, highly respected name over the years in the player development world. Hines ran the Sixers\u2019 player development program in Nurse\u2019s first three years as head coach.<\/a><\/p>\n Dice Yoshimoto is another recent addition to the Sixers\u2019 staff. The team\u2019s website lists Yoshimoto as \u201cassistant coach\/head video coordinator.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Yoshimoto was on the Sixers\u2019 sideline during summer league.<\/a> He\u2019s previously worked in the NBA for the Nets, Nuggets, Bulls, <\/a>Timberwolves<\/a> and Knicks<\/a>. Yoshimoto also has experience with the Ukraine and Japan national teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sixers are reportedly poised to add Phil Handy to their coaching staff. Andscape and ESPN\u2019s Marc J.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,185,6,6724,207,681,5902,4186,680,476,3820],"class_list":["post-817993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-raptors","tag-basketball","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba","tag-nick-nurse","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-raptors","tag-sixers-analysis","tag-sixers-news","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-torontoraptors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117138464734408944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817993","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=817993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}