Embiid and Simmons will not play in the All-Star game

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4.8 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Derek and Rich discuss Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons not being available for the All-Star game because of contact tracing, then hand out midseason grades for the front office, coaching staff and players. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In today's episode of the Sixers Beat, Rich and I go over the news that Joelle Mede and
0:10.4	Ben Simmons will not be participating in the All-Star game after having their haircut by a
0:16.2	barber who has tested positive for COVID-19.
0:19.6	We then give the Sixers mid-season grades,
0:22.4	handing out grades for Darrell Mori and his staff,
0:25.5	Doc Rivers, and his staff,
0:27.3	and all of the players in these Sixers' regular rotation.
0:31.6	If you're not already an athletic subscriber,
0:33.6	head on over to The Athletic.com slash Sixers Beat.
0:36.6	We can get 50% off of a yearly subscription.
0:40.1	Enjoy the podcast.
0:51.8	All right.
0:52.4	Welcome, everybody.
0:53.7	This is Derek Biner, joined by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, a part of the
0:58.7	Athletics Podcast Network.
1:02.1	Rich, how you doing?
1:05.8	I'm okay, man.
1:07.4	I think hopefully it'll be okay, but our All-Star Sunday is a little different than we
1:13.9	expected it to be. A little different. We, we originally pushed back the recording of this podcast.
1:18.5	We could get to Doc Rivers pregame availability for the All-Star game. We'll get to,
1:25.2	meaning we open up a Zoom window. That's 2021. And then maybe like 20
1:31.4	minutes before that happened, news came out that Joel M. B. and Ben Simmons were, at that point,
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