<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The 76ers are welcoming back a pair of familiar figures to join the staff of head coach Maurice Cheeks. Jim Lynam, head coach of the Sixers from 1987 through 1992, is coming back as an assistant coach, the team announced yesterday. Moses Malone, the MVP of the Sixers' 1983 NBA championship team, is becoming a full-time assistant after being a consultant last season. Lynam, 64, was hired as Cheeks' top assistant for the 2005-06 season but left late in training camp to tend to a personal health issue and announced in December that he would not be back. He is said to be feeling fine and ready to return. Malone, 51, made a few visits last season to advise the Sixers' big men. This season, helped by the recommendation of center Samuel Dalembert, Malone was asked to come back but work full time with the big men. "When we asked him, he said yeah, he'd love to," said president and general manager Billy King, who added that Malone will not be able to start until the end of October because of prior commitments. Cheeks' staff also includes Henry Bibby, John Loyer and Bernard Smith. Holding on to Iggy King said he hoped to exercise the fourth-year option on the contract of guard/forward Andre Iguodala before the team leaves today for Spain. The 6-foot-6 Iguodala, the ninth overall pick of the 2004 NBA draft, has started all 82 games in each of his first two seasons with the Sixers, averaging 10.7 points, 5.8 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.7 steals while serving as the team's defensive stopper and fastbreak dunk artist. Iguodala is making slightly more than $2.2 million in this, the final year of his rookie contract. He will earn more than $2.8 million next season under the fourth-year option.</div> Source
They NEED to hold on to Andre. I think with a couople more years of experiance and more confidence, he could be a pual pierce type player.
