Looks like yesterday’s meeting was just a formality for Mike D’Antoni to sign his sanity away: According to Keith Pompey, the Sixers officially hired Mike D’Antoni to be an associate head coach under Brett Brown. And thank the basketball gods this all happened after they extended Brett Brown, because I don’t think I could stand the takes.

But he’s not just an associate head coach, according to Pompey. He’s also a spy:

D’Antoni has 12 years of head coaching experience with the Denver Nuggets, Phoenix Suns, Knicks, and Los Angeles Lakers. He also is someone the new chairman of basketball operations, Jerry Colangelo, trusts to be his eyes and ears when Colangelo is more than 2,000 miles away in Phoenix.

Because what do you need to win more than a guy who will spy on the head coach you just gave a contract extension to? That sentence didn’t make any sense, and neither does that idea.