Bob Myers will lead the Philadelphia 76ers’ search for a new head executive after Daryl Morey was out as president of basketball operations, while Nick Nurse will remain the team’s coach. Josh Harris made the announcement in a statement Tuesday night and said Myers will oversee the franchise’s basketball department in the interim.
Harris said he had a tremendous amount of respect for Morey personally and professionally and thanked him for his contributions over the last six seasons. He also said that after speaking with Morey, the team determined it was time for a fresh start. Myers, a four-time championship architect of the Golden State Warriors, said the search would begin immediately and that the process would be thorough and deliberate.
For Philadelphia, the move closes a run that produced five playoff berths and a 270-212 record but no trip past the second round. The 76ers have not reached the conference finals since 2001, and that drought helped turn every front office decision into a referendum on whether the team could finally break through.
Morey arrived with a reputation as one of the league’s most aggressive team builders, and he spent much of his tenure trying to turn star power into a title window. He traded for James Harden ahead of the 2022 deadline, then faced a public rupture when Philadelphia declined to offer Harden a long-term maximum contract in 2023. After Harden requested a trade in June 2023, the team agreed to search for one, and he was dealt to the Clippers on Halloween.
That trade brought back a future first-round pick and some protection relief, including LA’s unprotected first-round pick in 2028 and swap rights in 2029, but it also left Philadelphia with another draft obligation still hanging over the roster. The team still owes Brooklyn a top-eight-protected first-round pick in the 2027 draft from the original Harden acquisition, a reminder that one move can send ripples through several seasons.
Morey’s last stretch in Philadelphia was shaped as much by contracts as by basketball. Paul George agreed to a four-year, $212 million maximum deal in summer 2024, and Joel Embiid later signed a three-year, $192.9 million contract. George, Embiid and Tyrese Maxey played only 43 games together over the past two seasons, including the playoffs, and the trio was 21-22 in that span while carrying $153 million in salary next season.
Morey also made the 76ers’ most recent first-round decision, selecting VJ Edgecombe with the third pick in the 2025 NBA draft. Now Myers takes over a roster built for urgency but measured against a history that has been stubbornly hard to change. The next executive will inherit the pressure to make the math work, the health hold up and the timeline finally bend the other way.
