One mark of a successful startup CEO is, Eric Ries argues in The Lean Startup, a willingness to learn and listen and to make tons of experiments on the fly until the company finds the optimal strategy- without sinking the ship along the way. I really can’t think of any coach who embodies that description better than Brett Brown.
Brett Brown wasn’t the Sixers problem. Contrarily, he was probably a top 10 coach in the NBA this year by my non-expert estimation. It wouldn’t make sense to fire him without a definitive and identifiable upgrade. The list of people who fit that bill is quite brief.