SMF - Just Installed!
Sources close to the situation insist that Mo Cheeks has more job security in Philly than the current climate for coaches (three have been fired five weeks into the season) and a 1-5 slide entering the weekend would suggest, for a couple reasons:1. Don't forget that Cheeks has received two contract extensions from the Sixers in less than a year, one in February (picking up his 2008-09 option) and another in September. That'll naturally prompt management to give Cheeks every chance to fix the Sixers' issues, especially after they spent big in the summer to sign Elton Brand and re-sign Andre Iguodala.2. The source points out that there is no assistant on Cheeks' staff who ranks as a clear-cut choice for interim elevation, given that former Sixers head coach Jim Lynam briefly retired from the business in 2006 because of health issues and that Jeff Ruland only just returned to the NBA after spending the bulk of his coaching career at the college level. Chris Ford is another former Sixers head coach who is back in the organization, working in scouting, but there wouldn't appear to be an obvious caretaker to whom Philly can rush.
New York Daily News reports that there are rumblings that Flip Saunders would be a candidate in Philly (and Washington) - is this the Daily News making up its own rumblings (per usual) or has anyone else heard anything?
