Philly Front Office

LeBron James signed with the Sixers today and continued the total public perception overhaul of the team. We are now firmly on the basketball map. The Sixers aren’t all though. The Eagles still rule the city with stars everywhere. The Phillies have a trade deadline coming up where they need to re-establish themselves. Don’t count out the Flyers either, they are sleeping giants
SIXERS
Breaking down the LeBron James contract because it is phenomenal
Mike Gansey is flexing
FLYERS
Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale are coming back for 4 years
Danny Briere has $14m in cap space and is loaded with tradeable assets
PHILLIES
Phillies needs at the trade deadline
Draft pick signings (posted juuuuust before Tyler Spangler signed)
THIS DAY IN HISTORY...
2015 – Cole Hamels throws a no hitter in his last start then gets traded
2009 – Cliff Lee from Cleveland
2010 – Roy Oswalt from Houston
2011 – Phillies and Eagles going at it with Hunter Pence and Nnamdi Asoumgha (LOL)

The Flyers are running it back, the Sixers are still in the hunt for LeBron James, the Phillies need help, and it's July so people are finding reasons to get mad about the Eagles. All that being said, I want to talk about the Mile World Record attempt that's going down in London on Saturday.

It's not like it's hard to rank the guys who call the shots for out teams.
Howie Roseman is in a class by himself as maybe the best decision maker in sports. Like a pitcher with 5 elite offerings, there is nothing he doesn't do well.
Danny Briere was the patient one until put his balls on the table for Leo Carlsson. All of a sudden he is looking much better
Mike Gansey just came out with a haymaker, even if we don't know who he is yet, we all like him
Dave Dombrowski on the other hand is a one trick pony who knows how to make trades and that's it.  Everything else is hope and lighting money on fire.
https://phillyfrontoffice.com/2026/07/10/episode-50-ranking-the-philly-gms/

Famous last words, right? I don't care. The Sixers traded for Jaylen Brown in one of the most shocking bits of sports news I can remember. How shocking? Well, I go through some of my personal favorites of the last 20 or so years when the 24/7 media schedule and star reporters make rumors regular and surprise more and more endangered. Plus, the rest of the news...
FLYERS
Extension season for Foerster and Vladar
Captain Giroux coming back?
EAGLES
Cooper DeJean...safety?
Jalen Carter at the DT market
PHILLIES
Bullpen...please!!!
Tommy Pham?
SIXERS
Jaylen Brown!!!
Dean Wade (I'm pretty sure I called him just Dean in this for some reason, I need a co-host), Anfernee Simons, and Ariel Hukporti
LeBron James???

After a month of life getting in the way, the PFO Podcast is back to catch up on all the Philly wheelings and dealings of June so you can be properly informed for the offseasons to come and a summer of baseball. Here's what I talked about:
NEWS
Eagles
Only DeVonta could get Jalen Hurts line dancing in a Canadian Tuxedo
Extension Season: Jalen Carter, DeVonta Smith, and Jordan Mailata
Flyers
Joseph Woll and Garnet Hathaway Trades
Draft Tonight!
Offseason starts on July 1 at Noon
Phillies
Derek Hill trade victory lap
Painter sent down
Appreciate this right now
What does "all in" actually mean?
Sixers
NBA is crazy: Giannis and LaMelo
New GM, same bad owners
NBA Draft: Labaron Philon
Free Agency: MLE Money!
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
All the bad Sixers moves at the draft of the last 40 years: Jeff Ruland, #1 pick, Markelle Fultz, Mikal Bridges
June 23 is crazy day for the Flyers: The Bryz, Carter, Richards
The Eric Lindros Saga:  11 Days of Confusion

I recorded this originally on Friday, but then it disappeared. That worked out nicely though considering so much happened in the last few days including the Myles Garrett to the Rams trade just a few minutes before I went live. While I get into the Post June 1 of it all, this week's feature is the labor negotiations in Major League Baseball as well as lottery reform in the NBA. I'm very bullish on both.
News
Eagles
AJ Brown Day!
Everyone just looks...happier
Phillies
Cristopher Sanchez vs Jacob Misiorowski vs Orel Hershiser
Adolis Garcia...YIKES
Sixers
Jared McCain vs. Julian Champagnie
Newest President of Basketball Operations, Mike Gansey
I don't hate the Knicks, but GO SPURS
Flyers
Vladar Extension?
Don't think about Torts, Root for Rod the Bod
I'm very happy with how the Flyers handled Carter Hart and that's the end of it
This Week in Philly Sports History
June 2, 1989 - The Phillies trade for John Kruk and the story is bonkers. Very Krukian

There are two distinct sides to the relationship between Joel Embiid and the Sixers. On one side, there are the ones who will stick this through forever through sickness and in health, 'til death do we part. On the other side, the relationship is fractured beyond repair because Embiid has not been pulling his weight in this marriage. Both sides are proclaimed idiots by the other side, one holding on too much, the other not enough.  As much as I want to try to make this work, why is it impossible to even mention divorce? Isn't it possible that both player and team still love each other, but that it might be better for both sides to consider a change?
Don't put me in the anti-Embiid camp, I know we are better with him than without him, I just don't want to simply go through the motions for the next 3 years of hopelessness.

I'm on a vacation with my wife, so instead of shirking either my husbandly or Podcastelry duties, I have combined them into a feature on the Philadelphia vs Miami sports environment. She just so happens to be a Miamian born and raised. While they have college football, we have the Eagles. About the only thing they have the advantage in is professional basketball. While she has Wade County, we have #selltheteam.
The news...
Sixers have fired Daryl Morey
Flyers are a player away
Phillies are RED hot but still need help
Jalen Hurts passes the Nick Johnson test

No, the Flyers and Sixers aren't dead yet. I'm even still decently bullish on the Sixers chances. Why are we eulogizing these teams now? Because anything else past right now is gravy. Both teams were toss ups to make the playoffs, had up and down seasons, and vanquished hated rivals in the first rounds of the playoffs. Think of it like the 2022 Phillies where just making the dance was good enough. With these two, they at least gave us a little more. Let's talk about how we got here.
News
Eagles
Schedule Release May 14
Zack Baun does the Eagles a solid
Phillies
Jhoan Duran is back
Alec Bohm is FINALLY getting a break
Early Trade Deadline Preview
Flyers
The Maple Leafs won the lottery, which means we won too

It's May 1 and we are shockingly feeling good about all four of our teams right now.  Why shockingly? Because we were not feeling that way in April. As of a week ago we were worried about holes with the Eagles roster, the Flyers were in jeopardy of blowing a 3-0 lead to our archrivals, the Sixers were about to get blitzed in a gentleman's sweep to one of our other archrivals, and the Phillies were deceased.
Since it's much more fun to talk about things when they are going well rather than falling apart, I did the podcast on Friday instead of Monday this week. Other than the Jonathan Greenard trade for the Eagles and the Phillies giving Rob Thomson the axe, there isn't a whole lot of news this week, so we are just going to talk about each team one at a time starting with the Flyers, moving to the Sixers, then the Phillies, and finishing up with the Birds.
No This Week in Philly Sports History either since the slate is clear for the next 2 weeks on that front. If anyone has an anniversary I'm missing in early May, let me know.