All right, welcome, everybody. This is Derek Bonner, joined by Rich Hoffman on this episode of the Sixers Beat, a part of the CLNS Media Network.

How are you doing, Rich?

I'm good, man. Emergency podcast time, because of Roy Hibbert signing.

Yes. Sixers added Roy Hibbert as a player development coach. About what, maybe two hours after you wrote in your mailbag

that you weren't sure if they were going to replace that spot they uh they ended up replacing that

spot so so good insight info uh good scoop from you i think i did that earlier season where i'm like

i don't know if they're going to fill up that 15th roster spot and then a maybe a day or. I might have gotten a day or two out of that comment.

They added, what, FERC on with the 15th spot. So it happens.

We should try and reverse jinx. Like, I don't know if they're going to sign Kauai Leonard in a just a ridiculous trade or something like that.

Well, I'm pretty sure at one point we did say we're not sure if they're going to sign Koi Leonard, so I think we won that one.

Not a whole lot of new information here to go on.

So we'll probably tread over some familiar territory, certainly things that we've talked about on other mediums.

More specifically, theathletic.com

slash Sixers.

We have been writing a little bit about Al Horford and his addition to the Sixers.

He was the, certainly the biggest signing, the biggest surprise for sure.

You know, Josh Rister's giving his age might end up being the bigger long-term signing,

even though, or acquisition,

even though he's only under contract for two more seasons. But, you know, Horford is, I would say,

the better player right now, certainly the more surprising player right now. And maybe the more questionable fit. And the more, you know, the one I think a lot of people had more questions about coming in,

just because of his age, just because I think a lot of people, Brad Stevens at times,

because last year he played the majority of minutes at center, view him more as a modern

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