Brown prescribes rest for staff once Sixers' season ends

TORONTO - Now that the 76ers' season is winding down, with only four more games remaining, plans for the future need to be made. Players will head home for some much-needed rest and, according to coach Brett Brown, so will he and his coaching staff.

"Everybody has got to take a deep breath and go with their families and relax," said Brown, himself planning to go and coach his son's team in San Antonio at season's end. "I'm just so grateful for the work that my assistants have put in. We've all tried to maintain a positive outlook on what we knew would happen this year. I've got a great staff that comes with juice and personality and expertise. Those are three pretty important ingredients for this stage where we're at with this young team. So they all deserve a break, I want them to have a break.

"We'll blink and then [comes] the draft assessment and then the Chicago predraft camp and Portsmouth and workouts [for potential picks]. That will happen quite soon. But I want them to take off after the Miami game [season finale on Wednesday] for a period of time."

The staff will need a rest, as this offseason, with two first-round picks, five second-round picks, and a lot of salary-cap money, promises to be quite a busy one.

There has been a lot of talk lately about the 25-plus points a game streak Kevin Durant posted with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Durant scored 23 Tuesday in a blowout win against Sacramento when he didn't play the fourth quarter, ending his streak at 41 games.

Earlier in the streak, statistician extraordinaire Harvey Pollack wanted all to know of Wilt Chamberlain's streak that spanned the 1961-62 and 62-63 seasons. In 61-62, when Wilt averaged 50.4 points a game, he scored 25 or more in all 80 games (that's how many they played back then). The next season he scored 25 or more in the first 26 games, said Pollack, for a streak of 106. His scoring average that season also dipped to only 44.8 per contest.

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