And we're back after taking the better part of a month off for, you know, vacation, getting our lives back in order.

We are back here to bring you another episode of the Sixers Beat.

We do apologize for the time off, but I think we needed a little bit of a little bit of time to regroup and just kind of take our minds off and maybe focus on some other endeavors. This episode will focus in the beginning on the GM search, where they stand, where

we think they will go from here, who we think the most likely options are, and why we think

they're taking that route. We then kind of transition into a couple of mailbag questions,

largely focusing on the jump shots of Markell Fultz and

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This is Derek.

We're finally back from vacation.

How you doing, Rich?

I'm rested.

I'm relaxed.

I don't have too much on my plate right now, unlike the Sixers,

in terms of maybe finding a leader for their basketball operations?

Maybe, maybe.

Well, we'll get into that.

We did take a couple weeks off, a couple weeks, and by couple weeks I mean like a solid month.

You know, we had Rich took some vacation time.

We allow him to do that. I've been working on a, as of yet, still secret project. So I wanted to kind of focus on that for a couple weeks. But we are, we are glad to be back. We still don't have a whole lot to talk about. There hasn't been, we are now well over two months since the Brian Colangelo Burnergate. And we are still, quote, unquote, in the search for a general manager.

I guess we'll start off there. Don't need to waste too much time to get into that. What are your thoughts now that we are into, officially late August, and these Sixers still do not formally have a general manager?

I think my main takeaway is the obvious one,

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