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. All right. All right. Welcome to PHLY-Sixer show brought to you by Rothman.

Orthopedics. You know, we have spent a lot of time. It seems like there is so much over the last decade.

Your interest in the team, your excitement for the team is based around the health

and availability of Joelle and Bede. And clearly, if they are going to be a championship

contender this year, you need Joel and Bede healthy. At least Joelle and Bede healthy during the

right time of the season. But even irrespective of that, I think there's a lot of excitement and a lot of hope

for the future because of what the Sixers have been able to do with their back court over the last

couple of years. Obviously, it started a couple of years back, what was that, 2020, I think. Yeah,

it was like a month after Darryl Morey joined the team. November 2020. Yeah, that was a really weird draft time.

Delayed off season. And then it a little thing called COVID. Yeah. And then it continued with a couple of

low probability events first hitting a really good, we won't call it a home run yet. He has to play

more than 21, 23 games before we do that. But a really good hit with a 16th

pick in the draft where you really don't expect much value. And then the keeping your the top

six protected pick here this past year to get VJ Edgecombe. So I think there's a lot of

excitement around the team, like I said, even irrespective of the health of Joel and Bede. But the

question is can they like it's one thing to be excited. Can they be the basis form the nucleus of the next championship contender if, and I'm not saying Embed can't turn it around, but if Joel Embed is not able to get back to his MVP level forum. And I will be talking about that today with my co-host here, Rich Hoffman on the PHLI Sixers show, brought to you by Rothman Orthopedics. Hey doing, Rich. Derek, I'm doing fine. I think this will be a little bit more of an upbeat topic, even though the prompt is a little negative. Because I do think there is some positivity with this team.

Like you said,

irrespective of whether Joelle is healthy or not.

But we got to get to the big news of the day first.

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