Hello and welcome to Luke's Let Your Podcast and we talk about the NBA which we're doing

on Tuesday afternoon. Joining us from Camden, New Jersey at the Philadelphia 76 years facility,

I can't remember if it's got a name Tim Bontevs, is there a official name for it?

I honestly don't remember. I just know I'm the big winner today.

Right, well, you and James Harden. Joining us from Seattle, I can't remember what

the summer of you live in Kevin Pelton. So the machine Kevin Pelton from the PAC Northwest.

I am here in the city of Seattle and West Seattle. West Seattle. West Seattle used to be called

Puget Sound, I believe. That's what that is. All right, Bontevs. Well, you barged your way on the

pod today because we weren't going to have you on, but then there was a little move with the sixers

five James Harden, which I think we're all happy about maybe not as much as James Harden himself.

I just wanted to hear you spend some time with the sixers after their practice today and what the

takeaway is the initial takeaways were that you can tell us about. Well, it's been kind of a weird

thing with the sixers the whole time guys because James Harden has sort of been here but not here

the whole time. I don't believe he's ever done any live five on five work at any point over the past

month. So it's not like he certainly didn't play any games. So it's not like the sixers really have

to dramatically adjust what they've been doing. So from that standpoint, there isn't a lot to change.

Obviously, the big change is James Harden is no longer here and the specter of James Harden being

here or not being here or what's happening or where's he going to go or what's he going to get

traded or what the team is going to look like. That's all gone, but you know, Tyrese Maxi comes over

today to talk after practice and says that the team has done a good job of keeping the main thing,

the main thing over the past month, which is a Pat Rileyism and I would agree with.

Nick Nurse has said pretty consistently the whole time that a the team has been pretty focused

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