Welcome to the PHLY Sixers podcast on the road still in Las Vegas for the summer Sixers,

as they head here to Las Vegas to take on the rest of the NBA and certainly get a chance to look at the young talent here.

We're joined along with Kyle Newbeck, Derek Biden, of course, myself, Devon, Givens, and Bree.

We have, well, she's the president of basketball operations for our show. And then we have the official president of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76. Is Dalmoy, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. My Ph.L.I debut. I'm very excited. Well, we actually joined us on Media Day. It doesn't count because Kyle and I weren't. Okay, it was myself in a half. Yeah, we had to travel all the way to Las Vegas for us. The full show. The full crew. Absolutely. So I appreciate you guys cover

us more than anyone out there. So it's great. We appreciate you having this here. So just to start

off, everyone's thinking about VJ Edgecom. Of course, our eyes on VJ Edgecombe is for the summer 6th.

So what can you share with us, the latest on Edgecombe and his status?

Yeah, he's getting parts of practice in.

He's going to go through practice later today as well and see how it feels and hopefully get out there.

We are taking a pretty cautious approach.

These are just exhibition games.

But, you know, I know VJ wants to be out there, so we're the ones holding them back right now.

I want to ask you a more big picture draft question connected to VJ Darrell.

You guys have taken a lot of guys in recent years thinking of Tyrese, Jared, I think VJ fits this, where they have

super great work ethic reviews, like great Thai character background type of stuff. But how do you

actually separate those guys? Because, you know, you talk to coaches, they're going to say, oh, this kid's a hard worker, right?

So how do you actually drill down and figure out who are the guys that are the outliers

that maybe can separate from the peers in their class to become, you know, all-star-level

type guys?

I love that question because it allows me to really talk about the great work our staff does.

I mean, they go to Baylor, to Duke, to Rutgers, to all these key schools.

And to your point, yeah, the head coaches probably aren't going to have the right

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