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Welcome, everybody. This is Derek Bodner. I'm joined by Rich Hoffman on this week's Sixers beat. We got delayed a little bit. We were planning on doing it Thursday from the Sixers training facility, but on the way there I ran into a very angry pothole, and that did not happen.

But we are here. I survived, car survived. Thank you all for worrying. I know pot holes can be very tragic, but we're here. We're ready to talk about this team.

Accidents happen, man. Especially on 95, but...

I'll begin with the story, too, that I'm surprised I didn't get a flat.

I was rushing to get to the Sixers practice yesterday, and I was driving in through the gate

because usually they have us park in a kind of an auxiliary parking lot, which is also used by the BB&D Center.

I have no idea why it's being used the last couple of days, but it has been.

So they've allowed us to actually go in the gate and park inside the facility.

I accidentally drove off the curb.

There is a clear path to get in to the facility, and I accidentally drove off the curb because I was rushing, and I am stunned.

My car did not get up a flat tire.

I mean, I got to be honest.

I'm pretty lucky with potholes.

Not that I miss them.

I hit them.

I feel like all the time.

But this is the first flat I've gotten in probably a decade.

But this was a bad one.

Flat tire, bent rim.

It was fun.

It took up my Thursday. But you were still able to to get that 400 question chat off in the uh in the auto mechanic shop the uh those those chats for me those those chats from me are tough by the way uh over at the athletic dot comilly. Because I want to take like every question and go really in depth. And then I realize if I answered all 150 questions in depth, it would have been there for a week and a half. And the series would have been over. But it was, it was fun doing that chat for sure. It's an acquired skill for sure. So Derek, do you know who hasn't hit a pothole lately?

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