In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I go over the positive coronavirus test and the ensuing contact tracing, which left a significant portion of the Sixers roster in the NBA's health and safety protocols and unavailable for their game against the Denver Nuggets on Saturday, where they only had

seven players they were comfortable playing.

We go over what that means for a hectic upcoming week where the Sixers have five

games in seven days, and who will be available and who might not be.

And we go over the play of Tyrese Maxie,

whose 39-point performance against the Denver Nuggets was the one's silver lining in what was otherwise a pretty terrible couple of days.

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off. We get credit for sending you. Enjoy the podcast. All right. welcome everybody.

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

So since we last spoke, which wasn't too long ago, that podcast, actually, if you didn't hear it,

there was a podcast, a mailbag podcast that was released on Friday or Saturday or Thursday.

One of these recent days, it was originally scheduled to come out last Wednesday.

Then the Capitol was stormed.

Then we listened back to it.

Most of it still applied.

All of it really still applied because it was a mailbag podcast.

Then Friday happened where half the team started to become unavailable because of contact

tracing and lost in all of that, that podcast sort of came out.

So go back, check that out.

Most of those questions do apply, even if some of the people we discuss won't be

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