Elton Brand Re-Signs with 76ers: Latest Contract Details, Comments, Reaction

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Free agent big man Elton Brand has signed a one-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, the team announced on Wednesday.

The 37-year-old appeared in 17 games last year with the 76ers, which was his second stint with the team after a four-year stay from 2008-2012. In 2015-16, he averaged 4.1 points and 3.7 rebounds in 13.2 minutes per game. 

Marc J. Spears of the Undefeated noted that the 17-year veteran has been in the league almost as long as his new teammate, rookie Ben Simmons, has been alive. But many, like Sam Smith of the Chicago Bulls’ official website, believed that Brand was going to hang them up at the end of the 2015-16 season.

Brand was the first-overall pick of the Bulls out of Duke in the 1999 draft, spending two seasons in the windy city where he averaged 20.1 …

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