{"id":880,"date":"2013-06-27T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-sixers-to-tab-brown-as-new-head-coach\/"},"modified":"2013-06-27T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T23:18:00","slug":"report-sixers-to-tab-brown-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-sixers-to-tab-brown-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Sixers to tab Brown as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The Philadelphia 76ers made headlines earlier Thursday with a pending blockbuster trade during the NBA Draft. Now they reportedly have a new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers have hired San Antonio assistant Brett Brown to fill the post left by former coach Doug Collins, according to the New York Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>Collins was not retained following the Sixers&#8217; disappointing 34-48 campaign in 2012-13. Brown steps in having spent the past seven seasons under Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on draft night, Philadelphia reportedly shipped off All-Star point guard Jrue Holiday to the New Orleans Pelicans in exchange for the sixth overall pick, 7-foot center Nerlens Noel, and a 2014 first-round draft choice.<\/p>\n<p>Brown becomes the second Spurs&#8217; assistant this offseason to land a head coaching gig. Mike Budenholzer was hired in late May to fill the coaching position with the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The Philadelphia 76ers made headlines earlier Thursday with a pending blockbuster trade during the NBA Draft. Now they reportedly have a new head coach. The Sixers have hired San Antonio assistant Brett Brown to fill the post left by former coach Doug Collins, according to the New York Daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[65,64,63],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-76ers","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}