76ers parting ways with Daryl Morey while Nick Nurse will return as coach, per report

Morey made major moves during his tenure, including trading Ben Simmons to the Brooklyn Nets for James Harden, who he then traded to the Los Angeles Clippers, before signing Paul George to a max free-agent deal in the summer of 2024. In 2020, Morey brought in Doc Rivers as coach. In 2023, he moved on to Nurse. Perhaps he didn't manage the margins as well as Sixers fans would've hoped, but he took big swings to try to take this team to a conference finals at least.

It never happened, as the team Morey assembled struggled to stay on the floor with Joel Embiid, the 2023 MVP, dealing with an array of injuries that have limited him to a total of 96 regular-season games combined over the past three years.

Morey's replacement will be tasked with building around Embiid, George and a young backcourt led by All-Star Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe, who finished third in Rookie of the Year voting this season.

Bob Myers, who serves as president of sports at Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment and won four championships as president and general manager of the Golden State Warriors, will lead the search for Morey's replacement and oversee the franchise's basketball department in the interim, according to ESPN.

Nurse, who won a championship as the coach of the Toronto Raptors, is 116-130 in three seasons in Philadelphia, including going 24-58 in the injury-filled 2024-25 season that allowed the Sixers to pick Edgecombe with the third pick.