Following the top of the common season on Sunday, Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey met with the media. As a part of that assembly, Morey mentioned that each he and head coach Nick Nurse can be returning to the Sixers for the 2025-26 season.
Morey mentioned it was “clearly a troublesome season” for Philadelphia. He additionally pressured that he and Nurse would “assess every thing” to keep away from the same destiny subsequent yr.
“We anticipate extra. We actually really feel for the followers who put their coronary heart and soul into this workforce, and we all know we have allow you to down,” Morey mentioned. “Possession gave us the sources to make aggressive strikes this offseason to place a championship roster round Joel [Embiid] and Tyrese [Maxey] and generally, these aggressive strikes do not initially work out, however we be ok with [them].”
Morey mentioned the trio of Embiid, Maxey and Paul George can be “100%” for subsequent season. All three stars missed appreciable time this season, along with struggling season-ending accidents with a number of video games to play.
The Sixers completed with the NBA’s fifth-worst document. That is necessary, as a result of if Philadelphia’s choose within the 2025 NBA Draft falls seventh or decrease, that choose might be conveyed to the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder. The destiny of that choose will not be identified till after the NBA Draft Lottery on Monday, Could 12, however the 76ers must jumped by two groups within the lottery to lose their choose.