You're listening to The Sixers Beat with your host Derek Bodner right here on Libertyballers.com and LibertyBroadcast.com.

Welcome, everybody. This is Derek Bodner. I'm joined by Rich Hoffman. We have not abandoned this podcast, contrary to popular belief. How you doing, Rich?

Not bad, man. It's been a long time. A lot of stuff has happened.

I see you every day, but we have not been able to get one of these podcasts.

And unfortunately, our day jobs kind of get a little hectic at this time of year.

And then we really had maybe one day in Miami where we could have done a podcast.

And we kind of said, screw it.

We're going to go to South Beach instead.

So apologies for that. It's a half-hearted apology. Don't get me wrong. Yeah. And we kind of said, screw it, we're going to go to South Beach instead.

So apologies for that. It's a half-hearted apology. Don't get me wrong. Definitely needed one kind of like one day just to relax, or really more like one night because there was a shoot-around or a practice that day. And then we got back and we kind of ran into some things. I had a personal thing one day. the next day you got poked in the eye playing basketball

because we take realism on this podcast very seriously

and want to cover the team

that we cover as in-depth as possible. So thanks for going the extra effort, effort, Rich. But here we

are. Here we are. It's true. I did get poked in the eye and I will not need a face mask

to cover whoever the Sixers will play in the second round.

I did like your half-hard apology, by the way.

That was your version of Brett Brown's, I'm sorry I'm wet the other night.

Wait, no, I'm not sorry.

I'm enjoying being dows by chocolate milk and water and whatever the hell the rest of the six players threw on them.

I mean, we saw this happen.

What was it?

TJ got the triple double and somebody threw chocolate chocolate milk on them.

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