In today's episode of The Sixers Beat Rich and I talk about Tyrese Maxie, how he'll fit with Joel and Bede once he comes back, and how his emergence can change its trajectory of the franchise.

Enjoy the podcast. All right, welcome everybody.

This is Derek Bodner, joined once again by Rich Hoffman.

It was now back on East Coast for another edition of the Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

How you doing, Rich?

Derek, I am good.

I have seen a lot of this great country of ours over the past seven days.

That's not an easy road trip.

There's, uh, I think you take it for granted.

You know, when we travel to games, being able to go to MSG and just like, you know,

we go to MSG, you take the train from 30th Street Station.

I always say this.

If you know the right exit to take out of MSG, you have to take like four steps in New York.

It's a little more than four.

It might be like 10, 15 steps, but from the exit of Penn Station to the media entrance of Madison Square Garden, that's easy. These places like Portland and Utah and Denver, no, no, no, no, they're not

next to each other. No, no, no. So I did get to see a couple of arenas that I had never been to.

I had never been to Portland, And I had never been to Utah.

Those are the two.

And then, uh, and then Denver and Sacramento.

Sacramento, cool arena.

And actually like a, a pretty cool area around the arena, which is, uh, which is cool

because I think a lot of people said, you know, before in the Arco Arena days, there was much more

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