Zach Lowe says Elton Brand connected to Wizards
Zach Lowe said on his pod Elton Brand is connected to the Wizards and it would be a home run hire and that’s the type of guy the Wiz need.
— Zac (@DCzWall) May 19, 2023
by Pinkman5545
@Washington Wizards
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please god no. no Sixers.
Huh
No thanks
where did he say this?
Beggars can’t be choosers but between Josh Harris buying the Commanders and this move it’s looking like DC is being absorbed into the Philly sports bubble. Maybe he’s just a sleeper agent sent to execute that dumbass Sixers fan trade posted here today
so it was Jonathan Givony who said it on this Zach Lowe pod (40 minute mark)
https://www.espn.com/radio/play/_/id/37678752
seems like this search is very confused. Being linked to everyone like this is not a great sign imo
I think I’m good on that
I’d rather have Elton Brand as a player in his last years for the Sixers than have him be the GM. And by that I mean, I’d rather not have Elton Brand be on the Wizards in any way.
Hell no. He has the stench of the process/philly on him
According to [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/13ly6fj/comment/jksfdq3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3), Brand is the one who decided to overpay Tobias Harris all that money:
>Sorry for the essay here but seeing this pop up again and again is bugging me. This was not the decision. Even Jimmy saying “Tobias Harris over ME?” doesn’t change what actually happened after the ’19 Raptors series.
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>Jimmy did not want to play with Ben Simmons or under Brett Brown. The Sixers chose the latter two over Jimmy, thinking his age was going to catch up to him at the end of his max deal. Keep in mind this was before the ’21 Hawks series where Simmons got exposed and lost all his confidence.
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>After it was clear we weren’t going to fire BB or trade Simmons, Jimmy told Elton Brand he wasn’t going to re-sign with Philly even though he liked playing with Embiid. However, since Tobias was also a UFA that offseason, there was a real risk we’d lose him too **so Brand panicked and gave him a max deal.** Tobias was signed because we lost Jimmy, not because we chose him over Jimmy.
If true — and the 2d paragraph is how I remember things happening — it doesn’t speak real well for Brand as a GM.