In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I react to the reported details of James Hardin's new contract with the Sixers.

Our main takeaways from that, how we expected to play out, and where that leaves the Sixers positioned, both for the rest of the summer and for next season.

We also then dive into a brief discussion about the Sixers Summer League play to

date, mostly focusing on Paul Reed, Jaden Springer, and Isaiah Joe is Derek Bodner. Join Barber Choffman on a Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network. How are you doing, Rich? Good to see both of us made it out of Vegas alive.

Derek, I'm doing fine. Cat looks like it has missed you over these past couple of days.

It was, look, I was telling you when we were out there, some of the days in the past when, some of the times of the past, when we were out there for five or six days, or at least I was out there for five or six days, that's too much.

That's too much Las Vegas.

That's specifically it's too much Las Vegas Summer League.

And so this time I did it in about three and a half days.

And it was a pretty good trip.

Honestly,

I think I'm starting to grow up as a journalist now.

I'm starting to understand how to maximize your time and caught a couple of

terrible Sixers games while I was there. I did not. I did not. I watched, I think when I was,

so I was there for three nights. And I think I watched a grand total of about two quarters of basketball.

And those two quarters were not Sixers games. The one thing you talk about growing up as a journalist,

you realize very quickly that going out there is you don't go out there for basketball.

And you might write about a prospect. I don't even write about games. You might write about

a prospect to an interview. You are there for networking. Like that is legitimately like everyone,

from coaches to executives to players to broadcasters,

agents, everybody is all in one spot.

So it is good for that.

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