Rod Thorn to become Sixers President

Story @ Yahoo! NBA.

Rod Thorn has reached an agreement to become the new president of the Philadelphia 76ers, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

A formal announcement will come on Thursday.

Thorn will move into the organization over general manager Ed Stefanski, a close friend who worked with Thorn for six seasons with the New Jersey Nets. The embattled Stefanski will stay on under Thorn, keeping with a similar arrangement they had with the Nets.

Seems like a good move to me, he did a pretty good job with the Nets when he arrived there and there was of course that one pick in the 1984 Draft that turned out pretty well.

So wait, that means Rod Thorn went from New Jersey to Philly and Billy King went from Philly to New Jersey? Either way it's not a bad pick for Philly. Thorn put the right pieces around Jason Kidd to get those 2000's Nets' teams rolling, so maybe he can do the same thing with a similar guy in Evan Turner.

I'm a Sixers fan so I hope to god this works. I just hope we can either get a little bit more out of Brand, or trade away that disgusting contract of his.

Nets screwed up on this one.

I suddenly remember Dr. J (from Nets to Sixers).