In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I briefly talk about the Sixers

1-11-97 win over the Dallas Mavericks, specifically about Ben Simmons and his defensive

performance on Luca Donchick.

We then pivot to a listener mailbag, where we spend quite a bit of time talking about Kyle

Lowry and his potential as a trade target.

We talk about Tobias Harris and what kind of value he would have as a trade chip.

We talk a little bit about the coronavirus pandemic and whether or not the uncertainty for

the rest of the season should influence what the Sixers do at the trade deadline.

We dive into Ben Simmons, his improved play, and whether or not that was influenced by the James Harden Trade Rumors.

And then we have another hypothetical on Embed and Iverson.

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Enjoy the podcast.

All right. Welcome welcome everybody.

This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics podcast network.

I guess most of today's podcast is going to be a mailbag edition of the Sixers Beat.

We do have to cover the game

11-197 win over the weird up-and-down Dallas Mavericks, a game that really wasn't all that

close and had maybe the best defensive performance, individual defense performance we have

seen in, I mean, quite some time. But how are you doing,

Rich? I'm good, man. I asked for a blowout. I asked for a big win. And they got,

they gave it to me. So that's good. You did. You did ask for a blowout. You did ask for a big

win. And they gave it to you and to be honest there's a point

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