Sixers general manager Elton Brand has withdrawn from the Atlanta Hawks' ongoing search for a new President of Basketball Operations and will remain with the Sixers, according to a report from NBA insider Jake Fischer on Tuesday night:
Brand, 46, is nearing a decade of work in high-ranking positions within the Sixers' front office after his playing career ended. He became the lead decision-maker in the organization's basketball operations department after the scandal-incited resignation of Bryan Colangelo, but when the team hired Daryl Morey as its new President of Basketball Operations, Brand settled into the second-highest-ranking position, where he has been for nearly five years.
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