I guess a hair behind ownership and the front office.
BUT since the 76ers are managed by Groupthink, Brown may be behind some of those moves.
It's funny. Not completely applicable but when I've participated in the SOSH football survivor pool, even though we at SOSH are contrarian and like to this of us as more analytical, for the most part, our picks end up mirroring what everyone else is going.
I point this out just because there's a danger with groupthink. Maybe it helps in private equity - means the group is mirroring consensus - but not great in the NBA where decisions are about evaluation and sticking to them.
For example - Fultz was the consensus #1 overall pick. And two years later, consensus said to jettison him for a bucket of balls. But that's not the way the NBA works. If a team evaluates Fultz property and concludes from a physical and psychological standpoint that he's worthy of the #1 overall pick, a team has to stand by that evaluation, even if the first two years don't go as planned. The team has got to figure out how make that investment work because - unlike private equity - the team isn't going to get another opportunity like that again.
Same thing with Harris. On its own, the Harris trade was defensible - Shamet is not a guy that prevents a team from getting a 40+% 3P shooter averaging over 20 ppg. However, to make that trade, PHI had to know that it was basically committed to signing him to a max deal the next year and they had to figure out first whether Harris could play without the ball and what he would do without the number of touches that he's used to.
Getting people's opinions are great. But at some point, an evaluation has to be made, and consensus is often not a great way to evaluate talent and fit.