At this point, Sixers head coach Brett Brown should probably be awarded the Nobel Prize for managing to maintain his sanity despite being tasked with the oversight of the NBA’s saddest lab experiment through its nadir. But a multi-year contract extension will do just fine for now.
According to a report by Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports on Friday, Brown has agreed to a two-year contract extension with Philadelphia that will run through the end of the 2018-19 season.
The 54-year-old Brown, a former Spurs assistant under Gregg Popovich, holds a dismal 38-149 record (including a 1-22 mark this season) over three seasons as head coach of the Sixers so far. However, Brown’s struggles have been almost entirely the byproduct of team management’s refusal to provide him with a roster of NBA-level talent thanks to an unprecedented multi-year plan of bottoming out, securing a chance to draft a potential superstar, then starting the cycle all over again the next year.
Through it all though, Brown has maintained an unfailing commitment both to his players and the Sixers organization with his steady hand in the face of adversity being one of the only remaining reasons why Philly fans have not become totally disillusioned with “The Process.”
Brown has served as a pillar of strength, dedication, and leadership despite holding perhaps the least desirable head coaching job in the NBA today. If there’s anyone that deserves to reap the benefits once the Sixers finally turn this ship around, it’s him and this extension could go a long way towards making that a reality.
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