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All right. welcome everybody.

This is Derek Barner, joined by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

We are following up another win against some semblance of the Miami Heat, a 125 to 108 win,

which improved the Sixers to 9 and

4.

Like the previous game, Miami was missing a lot of their heavy hitters, specifically

Jimmy Butler, Bam out of bio, Goren Drogic.

The Sixers got pretty much everyone back in their rotation now with the exception of Seth

Curry and Furkan Korkma.

So it wasn't necessarily a fair game, but they did win. Hey, you're doing? I'm good, man. Can we ease up on the, oh, the NBA is completely screwing over the Sixers. Everybody hates Philadelphia. I know that's what we do in this city. And to be fair, that Denver game was still a disgrace. But come on. I mean, the last two

games have been handed to them on a platter. They didn't really take the first game. Last night's

game, Thursday's game, there was a zero percent chance they lost. And they did it against Miami.

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