It’s Elton Brand’s City and We Are Merely Just Peasants Living In It

Nothing like an early evening offseason Woj bomb that makes you do a double take on twitter.

Well, after months of speculation on who the next GM for the Sixers will be, we finally have our answer. Elton Brand is the man now in charge of our young all stars and I don’t know how to feel about it.

When I first read the Woj tweet all I could think about was how vanilla this news was. All we heard about was outside candidates interviewing for arguably the best General Manager position in the NBA. These updates always curtailed with “also looking at in house candidates”. But, I don’t think anyone thought Elton Brand was the guy. Yet, the clues were right in front of us the whole time. August 28th, he was hired as GM for the Delaware Blue Coats, just last month (August 27th) he was promoted to VP of Basketball Operations. I don’t think anyone, in any sport, has rose through the ranks faster than Elton Brand.

I am not sure “meteoric” is the word I want to be used to describe our GM’s rise to power. The last rise this “meteoric” was when Donald Trump paid people to show up to a rally, called Mexicans “rapists” and then became President of the United States.

Brand got dangerously close to pulling a Jackie Moon seeing as he was on the team two years ago and now he is running it. Being on a Process Sixers roster that won 10 games and then turning around in less than two years and being becoming General Manager of the same team is the entertainment industry equivalent of Cardi B working in a strip club and then having a #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. What a come up, Elton.

Anytime you can get references to Elton Brand, Cardi B and Donald Trump into one post, you just have to quit while you’re ahead. Besides, let’s not pretend care that much when we are less than five days away from watching Carson Wentz play football again:

 

By: Kyle Jones & Aidan Powers

By Kyle Jones | September 18, 2018
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