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If you believe the latest scuttlebutt coming out of Philadelphia, Eddie Jordan is a dead man walking, serving out his final days as head coach of the 76ers until inevitably being fired at the end of the season. In fact, some reports suggest he was nearly fired at the All-Star break along with the team's GM and president Ed Stefanski, according to Phil Jasner of the Philadelphia Daily News. For what it's worth, the team's ownership staunchly denies that a decision has been made.
"No, we haven't [made a decision]," Peter Luukko, Comcast-Spectacor's COO and president, told the Daily News on Wednesday. "We have not done any of that. I've had a lot of people telling me things, and I'm getting calls, but we have not made a predetermined decision."
Share Jordan is in his first season as the 76ers head coach after signing a four-year contract this summer, and the transition from Tony DiLeo, who finished last season as interim head coach when Mo Cheeks was fired 23 games into the season before moving back into the front office, hasn't been easy. The 76ers posted a .500 record last year -- they were 32-27 under DiLeo -- before making the playoffs as the No. 6 seed.
Under Jordan, the 76ers have won just 23 of their first 64 games, putting them on pace to finish with just 29 wins on the year, 12 fewer than 2008-09. How significant is that drop-off? Derek Bodner of Liberty Ballers crunched the numbers and determined that a 29-win season would qualify Jordan's hire as being among the worst coaching changes in franchise history, trailing only Roy Rubin's 21-game plummet in 1972-93 and Randy Ayers' 15-game slide in 2003-04.
That's not the type of baggage any coach wants to bring into his end-of-season performance review.
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