As Gansey separated from the pack of candidates,<\/a> it\u2019s been speculated that the Sixers could potentially promote Nelson to their GM role. The only word out so far comes from Adam Aaronson of PhillyVoice, who has reported that a decision regarding the St. Joe\u2019s legend has yet to be made.<\/p>\nIn Gansey, the Sixers get an interesting candidate.<\/p>\n
Gansey was a standout player in college for both Saint Bonaventure and West Virginia. After playing a few years professionally both overseas and the then D League, he quickly joined the Cavs\u2019 front office as director of development league operations in 2012. He won the D League\u2019s Basketball Executive of the Year in 2017 for his work with the Canton Charge, the Cavs\u2019 D League affiliate. He was then promoted to assistant general manager before president of basketball operations Koby Altman named him GM in 2021.<\/p>\n
Cleveland was able to recover fairly quickly after LeBron James and company were swept in the NBA Finals by the Golden State Warriors in 2018. James departed to the Los Angeles Lakers in free agency and the Cavs won 19, 19 and 22 games, respectively, the following three seasons amidst a rebuild.<\/p>\n
After selecting Evan Mobley third overall in 2021, adding him to a young core featuring Darius Garland and Jarrett Allen, the team finished with 44 wins, good enough for the East\u2019s eighth seed. Unfortunately, they lost both play-in games and didn\u2019t get to the actual NBA playoffs.<\/p>\n
A blockbuster trade for All-Star Donovan Mitchell helped the team raise the bar and expectations. After disappointing playoff finishes the following two seasons, the team fired head coach JB Bickerstaff and brought on Kenny Atkinson. Atkinson won 64 games in the regular season, but the team was bounced in the second round again.<\/p>\n
After a polarizing trade that sent the oft-injured Garland to the LA Clippers for James Harden, the Cavs were able to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2018. But obviously, Cleveland had a massively underwhelming performance against the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n
While it\u2019s fair to wonder how much say Gansey had in the Harden deal, there\u2019s no questioning the Cavs\u2019 recent ability to draft and develop players while finding talent on the margins. It\u2019s obvious Gansey played a huge role in that.<\/p>\n
That will likely be Gansey\u2019s immediate goal \u2014 build the best team possible around the max deals of Joel Embiid, Paul George and Tyrese Maxey while not compromising the future of the Maxey-VJ Edgecombe backcourt. No easy task there.<\/p>\n
So, the Sixers got their guy. His first test comes rather quickly with the 2026 NBA Draft on June 23, followed quickly by free agency. We\u2019ll see how the team\u2019s new steward plans to build the roster now and in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sixers have a new front-office boss. The team will reportedly hire Cleveland Cavaliers general manager Mike Gansey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,102388,85],"class_list":["post-704910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sixers-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}