All right, welcome everybody. This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on this week's Sixers' Beat.

Probably shouldn't say this week since we just took a two-week break.

But we are back.

We're here, and we thank you for putting up with us during our little vacation, I guess you would say.

Not really vacation, because we're still writing and covering the team.

You're about to flood Denver, so not a true vacation, but a podcast vacation.

How you doing, Rich?

I'm good, man.

I don't know if there's been too many times this year where we've done a podcast where we can go and saying,

yeah, this is pretty good.

And this is definitely one of them.

Which is amazing. I looked this up recently, and I thinkyear-playing pretty good. And this is definitely one of them. Which is amazing.

I looked this up recently, and I think they are 70 and 22 since Christmas of last year, which Brett Brown has referenced a number of times.

They actually now, since he started referencing that, do not have the best record in the NBA or no, I'm sorry, 70 and 29 since Christmas of last year, which is the second best record in the NBA.

I think it's like two wins behind the Raptors over that stretch. So it's probably fair to say that they have been playing well before this podcast.

But I think it's also fair to say that this is the time when you have the most confidence

in the team.

You know, we spent a lot of time talking about how they hadn't beaten anyone.

I think at one point this season, they were four and eight against teams with a 500

or better record that has turned around drastically since.

I think now they are 10 and 11, so they have gone 6 and 2 against teams with the 500 or better,

or 6 and 3 against teams of the 500 or better record in that stretch.

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