All right, welcome everybody. This is Derek Bodner.

Join this week once again by Rich Hoffman on this week's

episode of the Sixers Beat, a part of the CLNS Media Network, real quick before we begin, because I never,

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How you doing, Rich?

I'm good, man.

I was at 97-5s fan fest doing a little work for an article that will be on the athletic Philly in a few days.

And first off, I mean, it was a really good turnout for them.

They had Alan Iverson and Tobias Harris there.

I just was kind of struck, though, by the amount of Sixers' jerseys there.

Yeah.

And, of course, there were, you know, there were Dallas sucks chance.

The Eagles are starting up.

I think a lot of people believe they're going to have a good season.

I certainly do.

And they're kind of,

you know,

I still think that they're king in this town.

I don't think that will ever change.

But it does just strike you how popular the Sixers are right now.

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