All right, welcome everybody. This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on this week's Sixers Beat, a part of a CLNS Media Network.

How you doing? We'll start off there. We'll start off there.

Is that how we start podcasts? You usually just do that.

That is how we start a podcast.

How are you doing? I'm doing great, man.

How are you doing, Rich?

I was, you know, I hope everybody's Christmas was good.

It's kind of a weird week here where the Sixers are playing, you know, not totally

unimportant games, but it just doesn't feel like there's a lot of juice.

People are kind of just running around, doing their own thing.

Should I work?

Should I not work?

Anyway, I hope everybody had a great Christmas or whatever.

You celebrate, if you celebrate anything.

But I'm doing good, man.

And, you know, the Sixers, they had a tough day on Christmas.

They had a tough day on Christmas. They had a tough day on Christmas.

They are two and one in that stretch of the Raptor, Celtics, and Jazz,

with the important caveat that the Raptors sat half of their team.

So I guess we'll start off there.

Of the three games, you probably attribute the most meaning to the Celtics game.

I think that would be fair to say, right?

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