In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I discuss the news that the Lakers are hiring

Darwin Ham as their head coach, and thus won't hire Doc Rivers.

We talk about Embed officially being named to the all-NBA second team and the travesty that

that is.

And we talk about Jimmy Butler's incredible game six performance against Celtics,

about the end of Butler's time in Philadelphia, and about what could have been.

Enjoy the podcast.

All right. Welcome welcome everybody.

This is Derek Bodner, joined by my cat who just jumped up on my desk, and also Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

How you doing, Rich?

Derek, I'm good.

I was watching some basketball last night.

And there was a guy who was pretty familiar.

He's pretty good in these third and fourth rounds of the playoffs.

But second round of the playoffs, too. Yeah. So I guess there's a couple of small things to talk about. No major news here over the past week. We're kind of in that portion of the schedule. Which, by the way, it makes podcasting a little bit harder, but it's nice. It is. A couple of weeks of just not a lot of stuff happening. That's okay. Well, especially for fans, because I feel like you get your heart ripped out every, I don't know, mid-May or so.

Maybe a plus or minus a month depending on a COVID schedule. But you get your heart ripped out in mid-May. I think you guys need a couple of light weeks, even a month until we really get back into the hardcore fretting over the team, which, I mean, it's going to happen because we have a contract to talk about coming up here soon. But a couple of small, minor pieces of news. First of all, the Lakers, uh, hired Dardenham as head coach. So, no, uh, you know, you're not losing Doc Rivers, depending on where you fall on Doc Rivers as a coach,

depends on whether you're happy or sad. But Doc Rivers, by all accounts, and I think we both

said that if Doc doesn't go to L.A., he is going to be back as a Sixers Head Coach. It is

certainly looking like that as a case. So you've got that little piece of news. You've got

Joel N.Bee officially being

voted to second team all NBA. He has never made the first team all NBA. He ended up with

57 first team votes, which he got 57 first team votes. Yolkich got 88. So clearly a lot of

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