In today's episode of The Sixers Beat Rich and I talk about, I mean, what else we're going to talk about, we dive into the ongoing, never-ending Ben Simmons saga.

Who's going to win the stare-down between Rich Paul and Daryl.

Whether the Sixers still have any kind of leverage in Ben Simmons trade negotiations,

whether Ben Simmons will report to training camp,

and what the Sixers should be looking for in a trade package in return.

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Enjoy the podcast.

All right. Welcome, everybody. This is Derek Bodner, joined once again by Rich Hoffman, the well-rested Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

How you doing, Rich?

Welcome back.

I'm great, man.

It's, you know, it hasn't been a long offseason.

I feel like we have basketball coming up, but at least I got a few weeks of vacation.

Nothing happened during that time, right?

No, nothing, nothing at all happened.

Yeah, no, it is a shorter offseason, shortened by about a month.

We'll be back on a normal schedule after the season, so that will be nice.

But, yeah, no, just your typical late august early september

uh dead period of the no that's not what happened you know i guess real quick it's been a little

bit since we did one of these podcasts obviously the ben simmons news has come in since that happened

you know i did want to mention one thing real quick. I am taking part in the

Bark in the Park 5K for the Providence Animal Shelter. If that sounds familiar, it's the one that

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