In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I talk about the Sixers 126 to 119 win over Nicolae Yokic and the Denver Nuggets.

We talk about Embed's strengthening MVP case and the buzz around that.

We talk about him being snubbed as an all-star starter and about the overall direction of the team,

as they have now won 20 of their last 24 games to move into second place in the Eastern Conference.

Enjoy the podcast.

All right, welcome everybody.

This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on a Sixers Beat, part of the athletics podcast network.

Good morning, Rich.

Nice to see you on this football Sunday.

We are recording this before the Eagles play, so we will not know what happens.

This podcast will probably come out after the game, so we will not know what happens while

we were recording.

But one quick go-birds here before we get started, but how are you doing?

Go birds.

And that is the only relevant thing happening in the Philadelphia sports landscape right now.

No, I'm just kidding.

No, no, no, no.

Although if you listen to sports radio, it certainly sounds like it. But I get it. Like, it's a championship game. It's a bad timing for the B to go up against and dismantle the two-time reigning MVP when the, you know, city is 99% focused on the Eagles, but that's a schedule.

It's not schedule.

But look, I think there's an element of like, hey, the city's on fire right now.

And this is, you know, part of it where, you know, you throw this crazy Joelle performance,

you know, throw it like another log onto the fire.

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