 The former Sixer and current TNT analyst Doug Collins was formally introduced by the Sixers yesterday. Collins seem to be positive and upbeat in regards to the challenge of getting the Sixers back to respectability. Collins was ask why did he want the Sixer job. Here was his response:
"A lot of people say, 'Why would you want to do this,' and my answer is, 'Why not?' " Collins said. "I can't wait to roll up my sleeves and go to work here because there's some nice young pieces in this organization. I feel like I'm the bus driver. I've got to get the right people on the bus, and more importantly I've got to get them sitting in the right seats. If we can do that we're going to win a lot of games."
This quote offered some encouragement that Collins realized what he has to do.
"You can't say, 'I'm going to take this group and play this way.' What you have to do is say, 'What do I have?' And then you've got to build your team around that. Every year that I coached I ran a different system because I've never had the same team. And that's what coaches have to do. They have to adjust and they have to play to their personnel."
Collins comments sound encouraging and intelligent, hopefully he'll be able to stamp his style to the Sixers and make an impact.
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Newly acquired 76er Andres Nocioni plans to play for his native Argentina in the FIBA World Championships beginning Aug. 28 in Turkey. The FIBA World Championships is a 24 team tournament. Nocioni played on the 2008 Argentina team at the Olympics held in Beijing, China.
The latest reports circling indicates that Doug Collins has hired Michael Curry as an assistant coach. Collins coached Curry when he was coach of the Detroit Pistons. Curry also had a stint as coach of the Pistons in 2008-2009 season so the Detroit Piston influence has definitely come to Philadelphia. Collins have also already retained former Piston and Sixer Aaron McKie.
According to sources, the Philadelphia 76ers have agreed to trade big man Samuel Dalembert to the Sacramento Kings for Andres Nocioni and Spencer Hawes. The deal was agreed to on Tuesday night and the two teams have been working out details today. An announcement is expected some time today. The Sixers get rid of the underachieving Dalember and get a rugged forward in Nocioni and a young big in Hawes.
The Sixers will get an opportunity today to check out potential pick Evan Turner as he will visit the Sixers at PCOM for a workout. The Sixers also will host Derrick Favors (Georgia Tech) and DeMarcus Cousins (Kentucky) on Friday, and Wes Johnson from Syracuse on Saturday.
New Sixer coach Doug Collins goes out to LA to meet with Andre Iguodala. 
The Philadelphia 76ers GM Ed Stefanski made an official announcement stating that the Sixers have named Doug Collins head coach. The details of the deal was not disclosed per team policy. Collins becomes the 23rd coach in Philadelphia 76er's history. Ed Stefanski had this to say according to Sixers.com.
