All right, welcome everybody. This is Derek Bodner, joined once again by Mike O'Connor on this week's Sixers Beat, a part of the CLNS Media Network. I am glad that we are doing this podcast. Now, rather than earlier in the week after they had lost to the Orlando Magic, their second consecutive really bad defeat,

came back with a nice bounceback win over the Brooklyn Nets, a team that gives them a lot of

trouble, and then a win on the road against Minnesota Timber Rules without Chuelan Bede,

and in front of the crazy lunatic group

of the rights to Ricky Sanchez. How you doing, Mike? I'm good, man. Like you said, happy to be

happy to be doing this after a couple of, not just Sixers wins, but relatively uneventful

and not dramatic with a bunch of blown lead

Sixers wins. It's kind of a rarity this year. Both games, I think the Wolves and the Nets

threatened a little bit there in the fourth quarter, but they manage both of those. And like I was

saying before the podcast, it's nice to not have to talk about a game

against the magic where how much do we care about a game that the team didn't apparently

care too much about. So it's always hard to judge at this time of year. They're now sitting

relatively pretty with a five-game lead in a loss column over both the Pacers and the Celtics with six games left to play.

Boston does have the tiebreaker on that, so their magic number to finish ahead of the Pacers is one game, either one Sixers win or one Pacers loss.

And for the Celtics, it is two games.

And then they will clinch that covered third seed in the

Eastern Conference.

That they will.

And I think it's pretty safe to say.

I don't think there are any risk of jinxing it now, but that should be where they end up.

And it sounds like Boston is even, it's weird.

They don't even seem to care about seating, even though they're like tied with Indiana.

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