Power ranking NBA head coaches: 2015-16 season
By John Buhler
23. Brett Brown, Philadelphia 76ers
When analyzing Philadelphia 76ers head coach Brett Brown, it isn’t fair to look at win/loss record. Though he has an abysmal 37-141 record, his 76ers play hard for him every night. For the biggest and most controversial rebuilding project in NBA history, Brown’s 76ers do their best to hold their own against supremely better opponents.
What general manager Sam Hinkie is doing in Philadelphia is borderline insane with trying to set his team up to fail on purpose, to acquire assets to build future teams around. Despite the tanking practices of the 76ers organization, Brown’s colleagues still hold him in high regard. He’s teaching his young roster to play the game the right way amidst a constant onslaught of losing.
It takes a special man, more importantly a special teacher, to agree to play a part in the current 76ers rebuilding process. Should Hinkie want to move on from Brett Brown, he’s put himself in a decent enough of a position to have another opportunity as a head coach in the NBA, despite his atrocious record with the Sixers.
Brown is a man of high character and does come from the Gregg Popovich coaching tree in San Antonio. In a weird way, all of this losing Brown has had to endure with the 76ers might actually be helping develop into a better head coach. Hopefully he will win one day in the National Basketball Association as a head coach, but unfortunately not in Philadelphia any time soon…
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