Matt Brase will coach the Sixers’ summer league team
The Sixers begin summer league play with a matchup against the Thunder in Salt Lake City on Monday.
Matt Brase will coach the Sixers’ summer league team in Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, a source told The Inquirer on Wednesday morning.
Brase, 42, is entering his second season as an assistant on Nick Nurse’s Sixers staff. He worked under Nurse with the G League’s Rio Grande Valley Vipers, the Houston Rockets’ G League affiliate, before becoming that team’s head coach in 2015. He is also the head coach of the upstart Haitian national team, and recently spent one season as the head coach of Pallacanestro Varese of the Italian League.
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Brase is known as an offensive-minded coach, with a laid-back approach while working with players.
The Sixers begin summer league play with a matchup against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Salt Lake City on Monday, and play the Memphis Grizzlies and Utah Jazz over the next two days. The Sixers will play their first game in Las Vegas against the Detroit Pistons on July 13.
The Sixers’ summer league team is expected to include recent draft picks Jared McCain and Adem Bona.
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