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Notes and Quotes from Josh Harris and Bob Myers’ Press Conference After Firing Daryl Morey

By Matt Schultz

Published: May 14th, 2026 · 6:42 PM EDT

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Josh Harris and Bob Myers discussed firing Daryl Morey at a press conference on Thursday afternoon. 

The notes:

On Sixers fans being frustrated with the ownership group:

JOSH HARRIS: “To our fans, I want you to know: no one’s more frustrated than me that we haven’t achieved our goals. I care deeply for the city and the team. I acknowledge how disappointing it is that we have not made it past the second round of the playoffs. We owe it to you and the city to be better. Thank you deeply for your support.”

I… do not believe any of this! It all sounds fine when you read the quote, but if you watch the video, it feels incredibly disingenuous. Josh Harris looks like he is being forced to sit through this presser as a hostage. The guy truly looks miserable. Disheveled as hell. Didn’t comb his hair. He looks like a hobo in a cartoon that some non-hobo characters dressed up in fancy clothes for some sort of hijinks. Let the record show: I don’t trust his cartoon-hobo-looking ass. 

On Sixers fans being frustrated with Josh Harris personally:

JOSH HARRIS: “I care deeply for the team. No one’s more frustrated than I am. I understand people’s frustration… I’m sweating it really hard. I’m sweating it just as hard or harder as any of the fans.”

This made me laugh. “I’m sweating it really hard” feels honest. It feels like a phrase he’d actually use in his real life. Makes me glad that he’s “sweating it.”

On the Knicks’ takeover of Xfinity Mobile Arena:

JOSH HARRIS: “Obviously I didn’t like it. It’s our home court. We did everything we could including buying tickets to um, keep the fans out. We geofenced. Look, it’s not – it’s on us. I mean, we were, you know, the fans supported us, um, and let’s face it: We got swept. Except for that last game, there were some Knicks fans in the arena, so our job is to, um, you know – is to come back and win that series next year, right? So um, I think – I didn’t like it, but it gives me more um, focus… of getting back to work and, you know, bringing in – like, we have a four-time NBA champion here who’s, you know, gonna be overseeing basketball ops. And that’s a big deal. Um, and so there’s a recognition that, uh, that hey: you know, this city’s not gonna be satisfied – and (Josh and Bob are) not gonna be satisfied unless we win an NBA championship. That’s hard… It’s about doing everything we can to get to the next level.”

Interesting that he said Bob Myers is going to be “overseeing basketball ops.” I’m really curious about how involved he’s going to be with everything once a new President of Basketball Operations is hired. I wish Bob answered a question about that (Spoiler alert…He did not).

Also, on the Knicks stuff – I still think this story is insanely overstated and I do not care about it, but I guess it’s noteworthy that Josh seems to be bothered by it. Maybe it’s a rich guy thing. Maybe some of his rich guy buddies are dunking on him in the rich guy group text. Which is good. That’s what I want. His rich guy friends should mock Josh Harris until he gets the Sixers a championship or sells the team. 

After being asked if it’s still tenable to have three players with max contracts on one roster:

BOB MYERS: “We didn’t get it done this year with three guys (on max contracts), but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done… What’s the modern roster supposed to look like, with the second apron, which acts as a kind of hard cap? Depth may – the truth is, depth may be more important than it’s ever been. Not to say this (current three-max contract) model doesn’t work, but we have to look at what happened this year and be honest about it and see if – we gotta be honest about, can this model work?”

Reading between the lines here, I think Bob is saying that no, rosters with three max contracts probably can’t work anymore. I probably agree with him. The second apron stuff is brutal. Hopefully he has a better understanding of it than Morey did, and is less star-crazy, too. Seeing a Sixers team with real depth would be incredible. Hard to imagine. I’ve never seen it. 

When asked about the possibility of going over the luxury tax:

JOSH HARRIS: “The front office absolutely has the green light to go over the luxury tax. In fact, we’ve been in and out of the luxury tax. And so it’s not an issue. It’s just not an issue. Um, you know, we’re building an arena here. I can tell you that the amount of dollars you spend on that versus a luxury tax – it’s, you know, it’s magnitudes more… So there’s no issue with the luxury tax.” 

BOB MYERS: “I just can’t imagine a day where if I said to Josh, this deal makes us a contender, but we need to go into the tax. If he says no, which he won’t, I wouldn’t work for someone like that.”

Gotta call bullshit on this one, fellas. I’m not buying it! If the Jared McCain trade wasn’t a directive to get under the luxury tax, I’d be shocked. That would also mean Daryl is way worse at his job than I thought he was. 

When asked about Joel Embiid’s future:

JOSH HARRIS: “We win as a team and we lose as a team. It’s not one player. I think putting the focus all on one player is the wrong place to be… we look forward to welcoming him back on this team.”

The words are nice here, but again, he didn’t seem to have much conviction when you watch the video. This is something to keep an eye on. I don’t see how a Joel trade could happen given his contract/how much the Sixers would need to attach to get off of it, but the way Josh said this has me thinking it might actually be on the table. 

Some loose stuff Bob Myers said that didn’t actually answer a question, provided nothing substantial, and generally wasted everyone’s time: 

BOB MYERS: “I only took this job to win a championship.”

BOB MYERS: “We got a 22nd pick in the draft. We gotta get that right. Then there’s free agency. Then there’s an offseason program. And all those things matter to get us to where we wanna go.”

BOB MYERS: “When you’re bad, you can try anything. If it doesn’t work, you’re still bad. But if you’re good, you have to risk something to go to great. You risk making a mistake and falling back to bad.”

BOB MYERS: “I’ve been lucky enough to see what great looks like, but it’s not easy.”

BOB MYERS: “It takes a great level of uncomfortability to win a championship.”

Lot of nonsense in there. Bob is really good at corporate word-vomit stuff, where he just talks in circles for a long time without actually saying anything that matters. Probably was instrumental in helping him land his current job. 

Overall, I’m left wishing these guys actually answered the questions we all care about, many of which were asked and mostly ignored: How exactly will Bob and the new President of Basketball Operations work together? Who, if anyone, does Bob have in mind for the new hire? What will the philosophy be on roster construction going forward? How different will this team look at the start of next season? 

Only time will tell. Gonna be an interesting offseason. Here’s the full presser if you want to watch it: