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There will be no changes to the reporting structures of the HBSE teams -- the presidents of basketball and hockey Operations will continue to report to their respective team ownership. Myers' arrival -- and his reputation as a respected and powerful figure in the industry -- strengthens HBSE's executive ranks, as he will work strategically with ownership and the senior leadership groups at each team. He will remain based in California, but travel regularly to HBSE/Commanders properties and events.

Bauman said the Sixers' first formal proposal of the offseason came on Sept. 24 -- nearly three months into free agency -- with a four-year, $39 million offer. Days later, Grimes was offered a one-year, $8.8 million deal that gave him $100,000 more than his qualifying offer in order to waive an inherent no-trade clause. Those frameworks were declined, Bauman said, and negotiations never advanced.

"Obviously a tough season ... not where we expected to be," Morey said in his end-of-season news conference, conducted alongside Nurse about 90 minutes after Philadelphia's season-ending loss here at Wells Fargo Center.