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Thank you to visit for being our presenting sponsor. Okay, let's go It's pardoning my take. There's enough of our sports. Welcome to part of my take presented by visible. Go to visible.com slash pod right now to get the best wireless for as low as $25 a month today is Friday, May 13th. And the Philadelphia 76ers are dead D E A D dead dead dead the exact same amount of points in the second half of their final game has been Simmons did all playoffs. And I think you go back to the trade and neither team won. It was the classic lose, lose trade. Like both teams in a weird way got a little bit worse from this trade. So you love to see that. I think Doc Rivers had the best score of the night after the game was over. He said, I came to the conclusion at the end of this game that we were not good enough to beat Miami. So for all you losers out there They love to say that Doc Rivers doesn't always talk about he was right hashtag doc was right You weren't good enough to beat Miami. So so so that's a great quote I actually compiled a few quotes. I wanted to do a quote off for you and in P.H.A. I want you to judge these quotes James, by the way, I'm the one sucker alive that still believes in Ben Simmons. So I'm like, that's could still get some out of them crazy stupid, irrational. So I'm not giving up on Ben Simmons. I'm the last person in the world because I'm like six, 10 point guards don't grow on trees, even though he's scared of playing basketball. Either way, James Hardin shot two times in the second half. Same as Ben Simmons, which we just said scored zero points. Ben Simmons actually scored one point in that famous second half against the Hawks in the closeout because he hit a free throw. James Harden, let me, let me just do a quiz. When do you think James Harden attempted his last two point field goal attempt? I'm going to say three minutes left in the third quarter. Oh, that would be great. His last two point field goal attempt was with eight minutes, 54 seconds left in the first quarter. Oh, two point field goal. Two point field goal attempt. He just stopped trying for anything but standing around and shooting threes. And even this is going to hurt six versus fans. This is a trigger warning. They knew it though. I think six versus fans actually are the one fan base they want to just relish in the pain because they hate where this team is at right now. Ben sevens had a better closeout game against the Hawks and James Harden did against the drill for the hole. He didn't don't get, but at least he got within the vicinity of the basket. I forgot he had 13 assists in that game and eight rebounds. So like say what you want, but he was he was at least moving around a little bit. I think I think you're unfairly targeting James Harden for only attempting

his last field goal with two minutes left in the first quarter. No, it was his last, no, no, it was his last two point field goal attempt with eight 54 left in the first quarter. So that basically just stood around the three point line for the rest of the night. I think you're, I think you're unfairly targeting because he had a good explanation for that after the game. And his post game press conference, he said the ball just didn't get back

to me.

Yeah.

What are you going to do? And then when asked if doctors didn't call plays for him, he just said next question. So I have some quotes. I want you guys Hank, I want you to chime in as well, because you hate Philadelphia. I love the city of Philadelphia. I love Sixers fans. I think they want to hear this because I think they want to relish in just how bad this has gotten.

But you guys judge which quote is worse. I'm going to give you three quotes. Okay. First quote is from James Hardin. He said, actually, no, I'm going to go first quote is from Joel on beat. He said, I still don't know how we let him go. I wish I could go into battle with him still.

That's Jerome be talking about Jimmy Butler. Yeah. Good quote. Bad. That hurts. That hurts. Good quote though, because I feel like all the Philadelphia and Jimmy Butler said he wish that he never left after the game. I actually think like Sixers fans are like, yes, yes, you are the exact guy. It was like the timing didn't add up in terms of how much they could pay him at that moment.

They made a bad decision to pay other guys and on him. But I feel like he would have been the perfect 76ers guy. Like he's perfect for the city of Philadelphia. The city of Philadelphia is perfect for him. In a weird sick perverted way, they're kind of rooting for Jimmy Butler. Yeah, and it's just it's just brutal to have your franchise player who could have been

the MVP and Joel and beat who he looked gas tonight. I'm going to give him a pass for the fact that he was playing with like a half broken body. Whether that's fair or not, like he wouldn't have a great game, but he literally is a broken man. Um, having him, though, say, look around the locker room and be like, That guy who just beat us, who just like stomped us out

at our home court in a closeout game,

I really wish I had him on my team still. Yeah, I mean, it's true. It's true. It sucks to hear what is the truth. It's the truth. That's what I like about Joel and be those who'll say he'll stay stuff like that because he knows that he's right. Yeah. All right. I quote, too, this one comes from Doc Rivers when talked about his job.

He said, when I first got here, no one picked us to be anywhere. So just as a history lesson, Doc Rivers got there. He's been there for two years. So going back five years, in 2018, the 76ers lost in five games in the conference semi-finals. In 2019, they lost in seven games in the conference semi-finals. The famous Kauai shot against the Raptors. In the bubble, they lost in, they got swept in the first round. Doc got there. They lost in seven in the conference semi-finals last year. They lost in six in the conference semi-finals this year. They've literally just gone. It was like they've been just doing the same thing year after year after year. Doc Rivers has had no impact on it. They were on the exact same trajectory and he's like, we were a mess when I got here, but I fixed it all to get us right back to where we were. Actually, this is a marked improvement for Doc Rivers because there was no, there was no washout at least. There was no big choke job this play. It was just kind of like the same miserable bad vibes. We talked about bad vibes with like, I think that was Kurt Goldberg gave us Chris Paul as number one bad vibes guy. I sat down. I made, I made an all bad vibes team tonight at dinner. You want to guess who's on it? So Chris Paul is the one. Hardens the two. Simran is the no, there's like a center. Yeah, you could have him a center. He's on the, no, he's on the bench. Okay. The bad vibes guys on the bench wearing a funny funny outfit. Three is Paul George. Uh, well, three slash four Paul George and LeBron. They change. And then, uh, Dwight Howard at the five. And it's funny because if you look at that starting five of all bad vibes teams of guys that are just like trash and clutch situations, if you gave me the starting five, I would still be like, yeah, that's that team's gonna, it's gonna be a great thing. They win everything. Yeah, they win everything. So the 76ers are, their playoff performances the last five years are almost an anagram. It, if they had lost in five in this season, it would have been literally the perfect, like lost in five in the comments. Seven finals, lost in seven, four games sweep, lost in seven, lost in five. So Doc Rivers, he's done a lot. Palantrum and they they have Paladrum. That's right. It's late.

And I can't talk. Last quote. And I think this is the worst quote for Sixers fans. It's a simple quote. It's just James Harden when asked if he'll opt into his contract. He said, I'll be here. I'll be. 47. I'm addressing the media. $37.366 million next year.

That's crazy. That's awesome. God bless America. James Horn has it figured out. Seriously, like you, you show Flash a promise, you get paid like a motherfucker. And then you don't get paid that much in the playoffs, right? Look at it. Look at it. space. The guys at the end of the bench get paid

the same as the stars in the playoffs, right? He's like, I'm not getting paid enough to

show up for the playoffs. Fuck this. I'm going to take some shots at halftime. Maybe we

rip his zigzag and come out and not play basketball in the second half and let us you

pay me more. Look at Hank's face. He's in shock. $47.366 million. opt in. I would say he's probably going to opt in. I'd say he probably won't walk away from that money. The only thing that he might do is he might, he might do an extension. No, no, no, I think the sixers only choice. It's crazy. It sounds their only choices to extend them and like move some of the money around like they don't think he's going to opt in. What if he goes back to his old tricks and he just shows that he just eats his way through the summer shows up fat demands another trade. But it's like he gets to like it's his choice of whether he wants the 47.366 million. It's like the sixers choice. Yeah, but can't the NBA, the contracts are so fake in terms, but like for the players,

not like the NFL, like can't you opt in and then get fat as fuck and then demand a trade and still get paid? I think that's still work. Yes, of course, but I honestly think the Sixers might consider being like, don't opt in. We'll sign you in an extension that will be more than 47.366, but it won't be 47.366 for one year. Yeah. All I know is I need there to be a way for James Hardin to make his way to the Lakers. I need, I need LeBron and Hardin to team up together. It's, I mean, it's shocking. I know we were looking forward to this day. almost getting to a point where it's like, it's like perverse to watch him do this. And of course, the sixers are a team. Like Danny Green gets hurt. Joe Ampeed's been fucking ravaged by injury. The heat, or the heat deserve all the credit because I do think there's something to be said, looking at you sons of going on the road, game six, being like, let's not let this go to seven. Let's, let's finish this right now. We're clearly better. The heat deserve a lot of credit. But man, what a disaster. And the process, it's now the process has gotten to a point where you have one of the top three best players in the league. And then James Harden for $47 million. Yeah. I think, I think Nick Sabin's full of shit. I think the process is overrated.

I, we're, we're results guys on the spot, right? It's so bad. I don't care about the

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