NBA Commissioner Adam Silver during last weekend's BOG meetings said that 76ers Basketball Operations Chair Jerry Colangelo "did not seek a job" with the team, according to Keith Pompey of the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. Silver: "His getting directly involved with the 76ers was in part due to my reaching out to Jerry. Not because it was necessarily my idea that the 76ers needed an adviser. But once [76ers Managing Owner] Josh Harris ... said he would like to have a sounding board, someone with league experience, I was the one who connected him with Jerry Colangelo." Pompey notes Silver was "responding to flak the team received for hiring Colangelo's son, Bryan, as president of basketball operations on April 10." Silver said that the 76ers "were not looking at potential general managers after Jerry Colangelo came on board." Pompey notes former President of Basketball Operations & GM Sam Hinkie "was fully engaged in his post at the time," and Bryan Colangelo "was a finalist for the president's job" of the Nets. Jerry Colangelo has said that he "was not involved in the hiring" of his son (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 4/20).
ALL FOR NAUGHT? In Philadelphia, John Smallwood wrote it "seems like every other day, the cap advantage" Hinkie so "dutifully tried to create for the Sixers is becoming less of a factor." A report from basketballinsiders.com states that the NBA salary cap, "thanks to the insane revenue kicking in from the new national television contracts, is expected to be" at least $92M for the '16-17 season with a luxury tax threshold of $111M. What that means to the 76ers is that their "ability to overpay free agents won’t be much of an advantage because virtually every team will be able to match them in a bidding war" (PHILLY.com, 4/19).
