Bob Myers, Josh Harris address Jared McCain trade; 76ers weighing if 3-max-player roster can still deliver NBA title

Barely acquainted with the assembled media covering the postmortem of the 2025-26 Philadelphia 76ers, Bob Myers was peppered Thursday with questions about how to take a franchise mired in early playoff exits to championship-level greatness.

Back in October, Myers left his role as an NBA Analyst at ESPN to join Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment as its president of sports. Josh Harris and David Blitzer called upon the accomplished NBA executive to help further the company’s portfolio of teams, including the Sixers.

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Myers is best known for constructing Golden State Warriors rosters that delivered the league’s latest dynasty, a four-championship run from 2015-22 that featured Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, who were temporarily joined by Kevin Durant.

While Myers’ days as a general manager and president of basketball operations seem to be in the rear-view mirror, he’s now tasked with finding the next leader of the Sixers’ basketball operations. He’s in charge of the department until Daryl Morey’s replacement is hired. The Sixers parted ways with Morey after the New York Knicks swept them in the Eastern Conference semifinals, yet another premature departure from the postseason for a franchise that hasn’t been to the Eastern Conference finals since Allen Iverson led it to the NBA Finals in 2000-01.

On Thursday, Myers was asked a bevy of questions, chief among them one about an NBA adage that it’s easier to go from bad to good — a hurdle the Sixers cleared during “The Process” — than it is to go from good to great, a status Philadelphia so desperately wants to achieve on the hardwood. So what is it going to take to get there?

“I believe that adage,” Myers said. “Because when you’re bad, you can try anything, and if it doesn’t work, you’re still bad. But if you’re good, you have to risk something to go to great. … You risk making a mistake and falling back to bad.”

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He added: “It’s a hard look at everything. It’s a hard look at whoever we hire, and we’ll place it on them. It’s a hard look at what I’ve experienced and what I know that makes…

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Author : Andy Backstrom

Publish date : 2026-05-14 23:03:00

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