How about one more addition before the start of the regular season?
Michael Scotto of HoopsHype.com has reported that the Sixers are hiring Scott Layden as a scout. Layden has served in several front office
roles from a scout to a general manager for the Jazz, Knicks, Spurs, Timberwolves and Kings throughout his career.
Layden got his start in the business working as a scout for the Utah Jazz back in the 1980s, when his dad, Frank, was head coach of the team as well as president of basketball operations. He most recently worked for the Sacramento Kings, starting as a scout for the team in 2022. He parted ways with the team this past offseason, when the team moved on from the front office of Monty McNair and hired former league executive Scott Perry.
Before then, Layden was the general manager of the Timberwolves from April of 2016 to December of 2020, where he served under president of basketball operations Gersson Rosas, and before that Tom Thibodeau. Minnesota had one playoff appearance. Before that he had spent time as the Spurs assistant GM from 2012-2016.
His most notable tenure in a front office was when he took over the New York Knicks after their 1999 NBA Finals run. He ran the team starting from that summer before he was let go in December of 2003. His tenure was bookended by his acquisitions of Latrell Sprewell, signing him to a five-year, $61 million dollar deal as one of his first transactions. Trading Sprewell to the Timberwolves (while receiving Keith Van Horn from the Sixers in the process) was the big move of his final season in charge.
