In today's episode of the Sixers beat, Rich and I dive into the latest report of Kevin Durant,

reportedly being open to playing for the Philadelphia 76ers before diving into the listener mailbag.

Going over our thoughts on the fifth starter, on who would be cut to trim the roster down to 15 before the start of the regular season,

and on some under-discussed and underrated aspects of basketball.

Enjoy the podcast.

All right, welcome everybody.

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

Hey doing, Rich.

Derek, I'm doing fine.

It's all I got.

Just fine.

It's the middle of the summer.

Well, all right. I'm doing good. I mean, this is a quiet time for the Sixers, which is nice. It's normal I got. Just fine. It's the middle of the summer. Well, all right. I'm doing good.

I mean, this is a quiet time for the Sixers, which is nice.

It's normal offseason. The fills are red hot, even though they might lose today. That's okay. And yeah, everything's good. Good. Well, I'll take good. I'll take good. That's better than fine. Fine was a little too.

Little too down.

Especially when you have the Phillies winning, what, like 13 out of 14?

I'm doing better than fine.

I have...

We've talked about this a couple times last year, a couple of times previous couple years, where it's like late summer, early fall is just so much better when you have meaningful baseball. And I know the Phillies have had a couple of late season collapses here, so we're all a little hesitant, but I think we're going to have meaningful baseball, and I'm very excited about that. So I am doing it better than fine. Hopefully we can have meaningful basketball in May and June next year, but that's still a ways away. Yeah, the Phillies really are just like a get me through the summer, at least, you know, even if you don't do anything in September or October, just get me through the summer at least you know even if you don't do anything in

september or october just get me through the summer and they have done that and then some uh

yeah this these last couple weeks have been a lot of fun so speaking of the sixers doing something in

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