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Adam Aron: New ownership just delivered @Sixers best season in 9 years. The '12-'13 76ers will show real progress, in which confetti will fly at WFC. Twitter

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Potential candidates, according to league sources, include San Antonio vice president of operations Danny Ferry; Spurs assistant GM Dennis Lindsey; Jeff Bower, who was a general manager for the New Orleans Hornets; Oklahoma City assistant GM Troy Weaver; Atlanta GM Rick Sund, whose contract expires at the end of June; and Milwaukee GM John Hammond, who has a year remaining on his deal. Hammond, who was denied permission to talk to Portland last month, was an assistant coach for Doug Collins with Detroit. The Sixers' interview group consists of owner Josh Harris, CEO Adam Aron, Collins and Thorn, a source said. Philadelphia Inquirer

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Adam Aron: All of Philadelphia including us within the team, knows we still need pieces to be a permanent contender in NBA. Hard work this summer... Twitter

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Adam Aron: Even so much progress was made this year. Winning record in regular season. "One and done" in the playoffs No More! Sixers fanbase growing. Twitter

Philadelphia 76ers, Adam Aron 

Adam Aron: NBA rules do not allow me to talk about our interest in players by name, but work well under way to think about draft, trades, free agency. Twitter

Philadelphia 76ers, Adam Aron 

Adam Aron wants to shake your hand. It's a Sunday evening in December, a time when the Philadelphia sports fan's attention is usually reserved for the Eagles. The new CEO and co-owner of the Sixers is lumbering through the Palestra during his team's open scrimmage. Over the course of the evening, he'll go from tracking fans on Twitter to securing seats for one of his co-owners to meeting veteran guard Lou Williams' mother to talking business with a Benjamin Franklin lookalike to heaping praise on coach Doug Collins. He checks on the Sixers' ticket sales. He finds out whether the laptops have been installed in the team's practice facility. He thanks Thaddeus Young for playing in the scrimmage. He listens to a fan's proposal about a more efficient offense. He answers his phone and scrolls through his iPad. "I haven't met you yet," Aron sometimes says, almost with an admission of guilt. Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia 76ers, Adam Aron 

If you care the least bit about the Sixers, Aron wants to meet you. And if you don't, Aron especially wants to meet you. Why? Because he thinks he has the plan to get you interested in Philadelphia's basketball team. "We put an exciting winning basketball team on the court, we create a happening on game nights and pay attention to improving the game presentation, and we engage and listen to Philadelphia sports fans," Aron says, as if he's verbalizing a mission statement. Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia 76ers, Adam Aron 

The new owners were unable to address any issues about players because of the ongoing NBA lockout, although did announce that they had let go general manager Ed Stefanski and laid the brunt of the day-to-day basketball operations on president Rod Thorn and head coach Doug Collins. Aron said the management is "moving 100 miles an hour on all fronts and we will be ready with something fabulous" when the lockout ends. Philadelphia Inquirer

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