In today's episode of the Sixers Beat, Rich and I break down the latest reports around James Hardin and his next contract before diving into a little bit of discussion about the Sixers coaching search.

Enjoy the podcast. All right, welcome everybody.

This is Derek Bodner, joined once again by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

How are you doing, Rich?

Derek, I'm doing fine. It's, uh,season mode now, which means I'm still writing a decent amount, but, you know, there's no games at night, which I think certainly... Have not been frustrated by a Philadelphia 76ers game in a week and a half. That's one way to look at it. No, I'm on the Trey Turner sucking, although his home run at the end of the game yesterday. They can't disappoint us if they're not playing games anymore. I feel like I'm the guy pointing at his head meme. Yeah, no, it's great to, look, we have a lot to talk about in this off season. Well, that's going to be James Hardin, which we'll talk about a little bit today, whether that's going to be the coaching search, we'll talk about a little bit today, or it's going to be constant Joel in the meet debates, because I feel like that's not going to happen. You know, there's no chance for that to go away until really May 2024. So we have plenty. And by the way, they have like six, like legitimate rotation players, not six, but like four legitimate rotation players

who are free agents and we've got double aprons and all that stuff to talk about. That's a little

more of a late June type of podcast. So we have a we have a lot to keep us busy for sure, for sure.

Real quick on the fills too. I just would hope that they are the baseball heat where they just,

they kind of putter around in the regular season. They're maddening for most of the year,

but once they get in the dance, they're the tough team. They're the tough out. And I'm basing that

off of absolutely nothing, just one pretty crazy playoff run last year, but who knows? Maybe it

happens again. That's my thought. Yeah, they're, their track record outside of that one playoff run last year, but who knows? Maybe it happens again. That's my thought.

Yeah, they're track record outside of that one playoff run.

Maybe not the greatest.

We will ignore that and pretend that they are the new baseball heat for sure.

For hashtag Philly's culture.

Yeah.

All right.

Just a really frustrating. Anyway, we don't need to talk about the frustrating Phillies.

We have the frustrating Sixers.

Really not even frustrating.

More the heartbreaking Sixers.

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