All right, welcome everybody.

This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on the final Sixers beat of the playing season at the very least,

even if the season technically goes until July 1st, a devastating end of season.

How you doing, Rich?

I'm all right, man.

It was a whirlwind 48 hours, though, for us.

Oh, my God.

You know, you see this amazing shot, which, again, all our listeners, sorry.

That is one of the most heartbreaking ways to lose I have ever seen.

That shot completely defied physics, but you see this amazing shot go in, and then eight hours later, you're interviewing players about their summers in another country.

It's just like, it's all very sudden.

And, you know, obviously the fact that that occurred in the game seven and the Sixers

were legitimately close to giving us two more weeks of work on the road in the Eastern

Conference finals.

It's just, it was quite a swing.

Yeah, and quite a swing for the players, too.

You know, it was a reminder, and I wrote about this, but like every great moment in the NBA history, there's just devastation somewhere along with that.

Like, there's never any clean, great moment.

And Sixers fans haven't really had to suffer through them because they haven't been in very many big moments.

Like, usually when their season ends in agony, it's like Joelle and Bid getting injured

in February, not like getting your heart ripped out in May.

So it is a testament that they've made progress to where they can be in this position where

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