76ers' Daryl Morey, Nick Nurse to return in roles next season - ESPN

PHILADELPHIA — After the Philadelphia 76ers concluded their disastrous, injury-riddled 2024-25 season with a 122-102 loss to the Chicago Bulls on Sunday, president of basketball operations Daryl Morey said he and coach Nick Nurse will be back next season and that they would «assess everything» in an effort to avoid repeating the way this season played out from happening again.

«Obviously a tough season… not where we expected to be,» Morey said in his end-of-season news conference, conducted alongside Nurse about 90 minutes after Philadelphia's season-ending loss here at Wells Fargo Center.

«We expect more. We really feel for the fans who put their heart and soul into this team, and we know we've let you down,» Morey said. «Ownership gave us the resources to make aggressive moves this offseason to put a championship roster around Joel [Embiid] and Tyrese [Maxey] and sometimes those aggressive moves don't initially work out, but we feel good about [them].»

Not surprisingly, after a season that ended with Philadelphia sporting one of the league's worst records with a roster that began the year with the belief and expectation of competing for a championship, the news conference was filled with explanations of why the season went the way it did, as well as lessons learned.

The biggest one, of course, was injuries, which limited Embiid — who underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee at New York City's Hospital for Special Surgery on Friday — to just 19 games, Paul George to 41 and Maxey to 52. The three stars only shared the court in 15 games, total, and for less than 300 minutes overall.

Still, Morey expressed optimism about the health of all three players, insisting all of them will be «100%» next season. That included