Saturday, December 13th, 2008 at 1:04 pm  |  44 responses

Mo Cheeks Is Out In Philly

by Lang Whitaker

According to a report from Stephen A. Smith, MO CHEEKS HAS BEEN FIRED IN PHILADEL…

I’m sorry, Mo Cheeks has been relieved of his duties coaching the Philadelphia 76ers. Assistant GM Tony DiLeo will take over for the rest of the season.

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  • musicrebel

    Wow. That sucks! I thought he worked well with what he had.

  • http://4point0show.com Wes

    Aww… I liked my headline on Twitter better.
    Twitter.com/4point0show

  • http://violetsprite.tumblr.com Ulee

    Dam. And another one bites the dust. So that is what, 4 or 5 coaches that have been fired already?

  • http://www.obviated.blogspot.com nick

    The myriad of analysts who picked this team to do big things feel dumb now. I don’t feel dumb. Why don’t i feel dumb? Because i said to myself “elton brand went to Dook….when has trading for someone from dook ever lead to more winning?” Then i laughed.

  • http://www.obviated.blogspot.com nick

    HAIKU TIME: Maurice cheeks fired/Sign brand? Dook players don’t win/Blame it on coach K.

  • http://www.mybleedingfingertips.blogspot.com/ Myles Brown

    No Mo Cheeks? That’s too bad.

  • http://hibachi20.blogspot.com Moose

    Randy Wittman, Eddie Jordan, Sam Mitchell, Mo Cheeks, PJ Carlesimo. The dudes are dropping like flies. As I said earlier in the month, with all of these coaches being fired, most of the coaches are with bad teams. What if the coach of a really good team gets fired? Like if the Lakers fired the Zen Master! Wouldn’t that be interesting? At least I think it would be. It’d be exciting!

  • http://www.obviated.blogspot.com nick

    More, you say? Coach K’s life lessons:/ Suck in the L; snitch on teams;/buy American express.

  • http://www.bbl.org.uk Josh D

    1.This is Stupid!!!!! 5 coaches (I think, i may have lost count already) fired only a month and a half into the season
    2.Mo Cheeks was a one of the best coaches in the league he led a team with no all stars and no hope to th playoffs, this year there not playing as well, but, if they continued to have faith in them, they would of eventually made a run to the playoffs

  • http://thesportsdiaryonline.blogspot.com Roy

    Wow! That’s a surprise…

  • http://www.obviated.blogspot.com nick

    I think Mo cheeks got killed by his own monster. He took a team that was pretty bad for most of last year on a great late season run, and people expected that to be the norm. When they signed brand, people expected the Sixers to make “the jump.” But how? They added an overrated, undersized big who conflicted with their existing style to a team that radically overachieved last year, and people thought they were golden? Expectations are a b!tch.

  • http://twentythreenine.blogspot.com Russ Bengtson

    Ah, expectations // Come up short, and it’s a wrap // Hey Mo! Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

  • http://www.obviated.blogspot.com nick

    “ECF!” Says Khalid/ “One of the league’s best benches!”/Please, stick to fencing.

  • http://www.obviated.blogspot.com nick

    ^^the above refers to Khalid’s season previews, an example of these deadly expectations, available here:
    http://slamonline.com/online/nba/2008/09/philadelphia-76ers-season-preview-2/

  • http://www.obviated.blogspot.com nick

    My first line has 6 syllables above. I will now go and commit ritual seppuku.

  • http://www.myspace.com/linkstigatorkevin Kevin Wilson

    Can we have Damon Stoudamire hold the door for him on the way out?

  • http://www.alllooksame.com Tarzan Cooper

    the funniest part about it is the little clip espn just showed. in it, mo cheeks is doing coach stuff on the bench, then real quick they show kutcher korver, in his jazz uniform, warming up about to take a shot, when mo comes over and swats it, very funny

  • http://hibachi20.blogspot.com Moose

    Russ, check the comments on your blog.

  • http://www.myspace.com/hemantsbeats what

    Underachievers/Crazy trade might set things straight/Brand for Iverson?

  • http://www.myspace.com/hemantsbeats what

    Too many haikus/Feel like its ESPN/reading TMQ.

  • http://www.myspace.com/hemantsbeats what

    (I don’t really think a Brand for Iverson trade would set things straight, I just felt like joining in on the haiku fun)

  • http://www.myspace.com/hemantsbeats what

    None of their guards can/shoot, that ain’t the coach’s fault/they miss Kyle Korver.

  • jose

    so how many changes since jerry sloan has been in utah now?

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    I wonder how long into the season we’ll get before Terry Porter is goneski?

  • http://www.msn.com B

    They cant spread the floor they just pack it in on Brand and they force him to pass outta the double team to Andre Miller and Iguodala. The only one that was doing well with Brand being there was Thaddeus Young and now they got him coming off the bench. They probably need to trade Iguodala for a Stephen Jackson or somebody like that.

  • http://celtics.com KobeWearsAPurpleThong

    He’s technically a 2 guard. They’re only firing PG’s. Moose, no disrespect, but they don’t fire coaches of good teams because they’re usually good coaches. You’re not the sharpest tool in the shed, ‘eh…?

  • http://where-basketball-b-longs.blogspot.com/ B. Long

    This is all Khalid’s fault! 8)

  • http://its-mitch.blogspot.com/ Paps

    Brutal. Another coach gone.

  • Candice

    Mo did have his faults. His roatations were awful and it was mind boggling when certain player’s didn’t even play or played minimal mintues.

  • Boing Dynasty

    Kind of like how Sam Mitchell gets fired, and Joey Grahme starts putting the whole league on posters…

  • http://where-basketball-b-longs.blogspot.com/ B. Long

    New ish on the B. Long Blog!

  • ClydeSays

    Really? Is this how it’s going to be now? Every coach under .500 gets fired? Teams are going to have to pay more and more.

    Sorry, but what the Celtics did is the exception, not the rule. Remember, they had 3 All Stars, and 2 good complimentary players who knew their roles and a solid bench. How many teams can say that? Not Philly, Sonic/Thunder, Wolves, or most of the teams in the League.

    Give these guys a decent roster and bench and THEN give them a chance to play together.

  • http://espn.com Yeeearlsky

    Was Tillery at the game tonight? I’m sure he has some kind of report.

  • http://www.sprint.com/sero Dma

    nice to ‘Mo ya (again).

  • http://www.sprint.com/sero Dma

    for every owner that complains about the luxury tax, they sure do fire and hire coaches like non other.

  • Jacob

    thats 4 down, whos next? my guess is ivoroni or whatever his name is

  • ktokyo

    I blame Allen Iverson.

  • http://hibachi20.blogspot.com/ BETCATS

    i think either Thad young or Iggy needs to go. 2 players that do the exact same thing from the exact same side of the basket and force 1 of the 2 play out of position will never work. And Dalembert is not doing what i thought he was gonna do this year

  • Jimmy G

    This is the new era of sports. The GM makes bad moves, gives out crazy money, or has unreal expectations (like what’s happening in philly), we blame the coach. Let me gets this straight 76ers, you thought a Iguodala, Brand, and Miller big 3 would get you on the level of Boston, Orlando, Cleveland, or Detroit? Man give me some of the stuff you guys are smoking, because it must be amazing.

  • http://www.shawn-kemps-offspring.blogspot.com/ TADOne

    Jimmy: I’m not sure about that level, but I definitely saw the Sixers as a formidable team that was just a tad bit under Detroit and Orlando. I love Mo, but the writing was on the wall from the 4 other head coaches fired before him this season.

  • http://sportzundercover.com/ Jared Zwerling

    Mo Cheeks looked 30 years older than he actually did sitting on the bench most of the time. The Sixers need a more energetic coach roaming that sideline.

  • illydiva

    Next would be Reggie Theus….if you believe what Marc Stein is reporting.

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