Get out the champagne bottles because the Philadelphia 76ers finally got their first win of the season Wednesday over the Timberwolves.
Now at 1-17 on the season the Sixers will not tie, or break the record of the worst start to a season in NBA history (0-18,) a feat held by the 2009-2010 New Jersey Nets.
To celebrate the historic accomplishment, Sixers coach Brett Brown joined SportsCenter friday and gave his thoughts on the state of his team.
“Everything we’re doing is about winning. I coach to win,” Brown said. “I talk about winning. We plan to win. We prepare to win. I get why tanking comes up, but it’s not even close.”
Losing often is something new for the Sixers coach, as he is a pupil of Spurs’ Gregg Popovich, working under Pop for six seasons in San Antonio prior coming to Philadelphia.
“Where do you begin? I left Disneyland with Pop in San Antonio. We won 50 games every one of my years, went to five NBA Finals, won four of them,” Brown said. “To come in now and have the challenge of coaching, it’s the youngest team in the history of the sport. We’re the team with the least experience.
He would continue to say, “The challenges are all over the place. From trying to grow the team, to make sure they don’t feel deflated, that they feel good about themselves, but I love it. Even though what I know now, with two draft picks not playing this year, I’d take this job 50 times out of 50 times.”
Brown sounds pretty confident for a guy who is 1-17, and who at one point went on a 24 game losing streak in his first season.
