On this week's episode of The Sixers Beat, we talk just a little bit more about new Sixers

General Manager Elton Brand.

We give our impressions from training camp, some thoughts on whether to pursue a Jimmy

Butler trade, and quick season previews for T.J. McConnell and Dario Sharge.

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podcast app of choice. Head over to Sixersbeat.com for those links. All right, welcome everybody. This is Derek, joined by Rich on the latest Sixers Beat, part of the CLNS Media Network.

How you doing, Rich?

I'm good, man.

Finally have some basketball and also some, I guess, condensation on the floor,

which isn't totally new to us as people who follow the Sixers,

just a different building this time.

It is, you know, I joked on Twitter that's the second rained out basketball game I've covered,

which feels like a lot for a basketball reporter.

I guess not technically rained out, right, because it's because of condensation on the court. But I'm going to call it rained out because that's as close as you will get. It is, you don't expect the playing surface to be unfit for basketball, but it is the second time it's happened now in the last two years. It is something that's become a little too common of an occurrence, but here we are.

It's kind of a shame, and I know not exactly the highest quality basketball we were going to see yesterday, but it is the most extended run we were going to see.

It's the closest thing we've been to real basketball in quite a while, and it would have been nice to have something a little more concrete to talk about something for fans to really pour over.

But here we are.

A couple more days away.

Yeah, I'm with you.

I will say that I went to the Catholic League semifinals at the Plessra in February.

And it was an unseasonably warm day.

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