{"id":241,"date":"2026-05-30T06:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2026-05-30T06:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:13:25","slug":"who-is-new-sixers-president-mike-gansey-from-a-classic-battle-with-chris-paul-to-almost-losing-his-leg-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Who is new Sixers president Mike Gansey? From a classic battle with Chris Paul to almost losing his leg, here\u2019s what to know."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mike Gansey will be the Sixers\u2019 new president of basketball operations, leading the latest era of the team as they hope to get over the second-round hump.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=239\">Stateside Live! unveils its $20 million expansion: \u2018It\u2019s a nice place to be outside and enjoy the summer\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Here are five things to know about the team\u2019s new top executive \u2026 <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Gansey ended Chris Paul\u2019s college career<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Gansey, known for rocking a T-shirt under his jersey, finished his college basketball career at West Virginia and played alongside current La Salle coach Darris Nichols, who called the 6-foot-4 forward \u201cone of my favorite teammates\u201d on Friday. Gansey was part of a memorable two-year NCAA tournament run under then-coach John Beilein in the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The seventh-seeded Mountaineers made a run all the way to the 2005 Elite Eight, upsetting Chris Paul\u2019s No. 2 seed Wake Forest team in the second round. Gansey led all scorers with 29 points in the 111-105 double-overtime thriller, and the game was the last of Paul\u2019s college career.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aBv3G9VMwyM?feature=oembed\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; left: 0;\" title=\"High-Scoring, Double OT #7 WVU vs #2 Wake Forest! 2005 March Madness Highlights\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The following season, Gansey\u2019s fifth (he sat out one year after transferring from St. Bonaventure) and final year of college ball, the sixth-seeded Mountaineers made the Sweet 16, but were eliminated by the No. 2 seed Texas Longhorns on a buzzer-beater. Gansey, who averaged 16.8 points and 5.7 rebounds his senior year, earned First-Team All-Big East honors and was a finalist for both the Wooden and Naismith Awards.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>His first college team was full of controversy<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Before his time at West Virginia, Gansey was part of an infamous college basketball team. In 2003, he and his St. Bonaventure teammates voted to boycott the final two games of the regular season due to a university investigation into teammate John Terrell, which prevented them from playing in the conference tournament.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The move was universally derided across the college basketball landscape, and lost their head coach his job, but Gansey told ESPN in 2005 that he had no regrets.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cNo one would tell us what happened,\u201d Gansey said. \u201cWe knew something was wrong with [Terrell\u2019s] transcript, but then all of a sudden we\u2019ve got cameras coming at us and no one would tell us what was going on. As players, we felt we had the right to know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=237\">Rowan baseball drops opening game vs. Adrian in Division III championship, faces elimination on Saturday<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Gansey nearly lost his leg<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Gansey went undrafted after his college basketball career, and signed a free-agent contact with the Miami Heat. But Summer League didn\u2019t go as he hoped. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSummer league was awful. I barely played and if I did, I was not good,\u201d Gansey said in 2021. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He suffered from major knee pain, and was ultimately diagnosed with MRSA, a form of staph infection. Gansey\u2019s leg was treated, although if he\u2019d waited any longer, he said he may have needed an amputation. But ultimately, after playing a couple years of pro ball overseas, the MRSA returned and led to his retirement. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>He played against Jameer Nelson in college<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Gansey may have beaten out former St. Joe\u2019s star Jameer Nelson for the Sixers\u2019 job, but he lost to him all four times his St. Bonaventure teams played Nelson in college from 2001 to 2003.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>He\u2019s spent his entire career with the Cavs<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Gansey has worked for in the Cavaliers\u2019 organization since his retirement from professional basketball in 2011, starting with the Canton Charge. He won D-League General Manager of the Year in 2017 and was promoted to assistant general manager under Koby Altman with the Cleveland Cavaliers. In 2022, Gansey earned an additional promotion to general manager, under Altman, who was the president of basketball operations. This will be Gansey\u2019s first role as the lead decision-maker.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=235\">Phillies\u2019 struggles against lefty pitchers continues in 4-2 loss to Dodgers in series opener<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gansey beat Paul&#8217;s Wake Forest squad in the second round of the 2005 NCAA tournament, worked in Cleveland&#8217;s organization since 2011 in various roles, and could never beat Jameer Nelson in college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Who is new Sixers president Mike Gansey? 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