Key Points
- The 76ers hired Cavaliers GM Mike Gansey as president of basketball operations.
- The multiyear deal replaces the fired Daryl Morey.
- Gansey had been Cleveland's GM since 2022, rising from the Canton Charge in 2012.
- Philadelphia was swept in the second round by the Knicks.
The Philadelphia 76ers have a new head of basketball operations, and he comes from one of the league's best-run front offices. Mike Gansey, the Cleveland Cavaliers' general manager, finalized a multiyear deal to become Philadelphia's president of basketball operations, his agent Bret Just of WME Basketball told ESPN — a move that replaces the fired Daryl Morey.
Morey's run ended after another disappointing year that finished with a second-round sweep at the hands of the New York Knicks. HBSE president of sports Bob Myers led the search, settling on Gansey over Phoenix Mercury executive Nick U'Ren as the two finalists.
Gansey is a developmental-system success story. He started with the Canton Charge, the Cavs' G League affiliate, in 2012, became Cleveland's assistant GM in 2017, and was promoted to GM in 2022 under Koby Altman — a tenure that helped build a Cavaliers roster into a perennial Eastern Conference contender. Philadelphia is betting that the executive who helped assemble Cleveland's core can do the same with a Sixers team stuck in cycles of injury and underachievement.
The hire fits the modern front-office pattern: poach the respected lieutenant from a winning organization and hand him the keys. The harder question is the roster he inherits — an aging, expensive core that the Knicks now bound for the Finals dispatched without much resistance. Gansey's mandate is clear, even if the path isn't: make Philadelphia matter in May again.
Source: ESPN, Bleacher Report
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