Embiid carries the Sixers into the All-Star break

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4.8 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Joel Embiid destroyed Myles Turner and Rudy Gobert, positioning himself as the frontrunner for the MVP award, and keeping the Sixers in first place in the Eastern Conference, at the All-Star break. 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 Sixers two most recent wins over the Pacers and the Jazz, which will keep them in first place in the Eastern Conference at the All-Star break.
0:14.3	We talk about Embed's complete dominance of Miles Turner and Rudy Gobert as he pushes towards frontrunner status for the MVP award.
0:22.6	We go over Utah's incessant complaining about the referees and whether it was warranted
0:27.9	and about MBEED's critical comments about some of the coverage around him.
0:33.0	If you're not already an athletic subscriber, head on over to theathletic.com slash Sixers Beat where you can get
0:38.7	50% off of a yearly subscription.
0:41.9	Enjoy the podcast.
0:59.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome back to the Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network. How you doing, Rich? I'm great, man. It's the All-Star break. We got a week off
1:05.9	from games, and we ended on a pretty exciting note, I got to say.
1:11.4	Yeah, two pretty exciting notes.
1:13.5	So obviously these Sixers won an overtime against the Utah Jazz, Rudy Gobert, Donovan
1:20.1	Mitchell, and the Utah Jazz, a nice little rivalry forming there.
1:23.8	131 to 123.
1:25.4	They have now won four of their last five, heading into the All-Star break and winning those last two games where both Tobias Harris and Joel and Bede were uncertain of their status.
1:36.6	The Brooklyn Nets are on a huge winning streak, half game back. The Sixers needed to win both those games to remain at the top seat in the Eastern Conference
1:44.3	at the All-Star Break.
1:45.7	They did do so, and they did so in pretty thrilling fashion.
1:49.8	And, you know, does being first seed in the All-Star break mean anything?
1:53.4	No.
1:54.2	It means a lot narratively, and there's a lot of narrative stuff that we will talk about on this
1:58.0	podcast.
1:59.0	Love narratives.
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