All right, welcome to the PHLY Sixers podcast on a Friday.

Man, it's been a busy week here for us as the 76ers bus has just been all over the place.

As we have been saying, the draft starts at number three. And they hold the third overall pick, but there's been a lot of things going on. And we're just going to get right into it because we have a big guest coming up here shortly. So as we always do, introduce you, Derek Bodner, Kyle Neubeck, I'm Devon Givens. Bree is here, our president of basketball operations. And all of you in the chat, we really appreciate it.

But without further ado, because this is going to be a heavy show.

It's going to be a fun show to get a lot of information on some of these prospects.

We're going to go right to our guest line here and bring in our featured guest for the day.

And that is the senior writer at the athletic for the NBA and the NBA

draft. Of course, you can also check out his game theory podcast, which is a very informative

podcast as well. Sam Vassini joining us here on the PHLY-6s podcast. Sam, thanks so much for

joining us, man.

Devon, what's going on, man? Derek and Kyle, like I've known, I've known Derek for like a decade, Kyle, you know, how you doing, buddy? Good to see you. I feel like we've seen each other a few times here and there. I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to finally get a chance to come on the pLY. I think I might be the first Pittsburgher you've ever had on the HLY. I'm sorry about that, but you know, we'll get through it in the end. No, that's a good start for the Pittsburghers to join in. I feel like Pittsburgh, there's not much of, there's not a lot of overlap in the, really it's Flyers Penguins is the big one. And other than that, they don't play each other enough the other teams to have any kind of. There is always that beef of Wawa versus Sheets, though. So, you know, you know what I mean saying? I've never eaten Wawa. That's the thing. Wow. I can't, I can't genuinely give you a take. I've never had Wawa. I've only achieved. All right. Well, one thing we do have in common is the basketball. And that's where we're going to start. So I did want to start off, though, because you did drop your highly anticipated 2025 NBA draft guide. This is the sixth edition of your draft guide. It's very big. You have your tears, all that stuff. We'll get into that. But the first thing I wanted to ask you for the people who are watching and listening

is, how do you get to the process of doing all of this, putting this together? Because it is,

it is very informative. It is deep dive. 100 plus pages. It's a lot. There's a lot.

So the process, Sam, for how you get to this point.

And as you even said it in your introduction is one of your favorite parts of the year

where you are able to drop this and release this to all the basketball fans out there,

whether it's the normal, just general basketball fan or maybe even an executive that

is peeking at it and seeing what information you do have in there. So just a general overview of how you get to this process and what it is you look for, what you look to do when you put this together. Yeah, like when I started doing this thing, like six years ago, it felt like fairly overwhelming and like all encompassing in a weird way

i called you know one of the first people i call it was dane bruegler who does the NFL version

over our web over at our website and we kind of figured out the you know what the structure would kind

of be for like what an NBA one would look like and then i talked through it with editors and everything but now I'm going to be honest with you Devon like it it doesn't

write itself like it's a lot of time don't get me wrong but the processes are like pretty

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