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Welcome to the PHLY Sixers podcast live from the Xfinity Lounge along with Derek.

I'm Devon.

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A ton to get to.

We have a Y, Y, Why wednesday big deal a little bit later on

about our sale that we have going on here at p h i as well we'll do that as the show goes along

but happy to be with you on this wednesday with the sixers have won two games in the road at

32 and 26 things have shifted a little bit. Joel Embed is back on the floor. And Kyle, we need to talk about the NBA overall. Kind of like... Don't get to do that a whole lot around here these days. How did they get Joel and B. in the first place? Tearing it down. Oh, I thought you're going to say because he injured his foot.

He did injure his foot.

And they tore it down, but they lucked into that one overall.

And the NBA, as we have known and seen over the last couple of seasons in particular,

where it's been more of a conversation piece for a lot of fans and media also about how teams are approaching

their rebuild and the NBA draft in particular. And they look like they have a bit of a problem

right now on their hands where it's not just the changing of, hey, All-Star Weekend is not working.

It's the changing of how they go about their regular season when teams are not good. It's very clear that the teams are not good. Their franchises and their front offices, they understand that, that they know that they're not good. And then they go about it a certain way, and they start to tank the season. Now, the Sixers did so last year, so we're not being hypocritical.

It was a different reason as to why they went about things

the way that they did a season ago.

But when you look at the Utah Jazz

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