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So I'd make the argument that Philadelphia not only needed to lose this series,

but they needed to lose it ugly.

So everybody in the room knows, all right, this doesn't work.

And because if they if they won this series, you talk yourself into it,

because Simmons is so talented and then bead.

So I guess the question this morning, it does feel like it's not salvageable and

filly.

Is that fair?

I think that's fair.

And I think you're right.

If there had been some kind of extenuating circumstance as there have been the last

couple of years, you go back two years ago and the Sixers could say, well, we keep this

team together because we were one bouncing ball away from potentially beating Toronto.

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