In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I talk about these Sixers

sweeping the two-game series against the Boston Celtics about their win in Detroit,

Joel and Beade's utter dominance, and Ben Simmons being more aggressive here of late.

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Enjoy the podcast. All right, welcome, everybody.

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

We are now coming up.

They have won, what's the six?

We've won five out of six, starting with the two against

Miami.

They had two against Boston and now one against Detroit.

They have one more coming up against Detroit on Monday, but how you doing, Rich?

Not bad, man, you know, the team we cover is playing good basketball.

And I think unlike some of the past podcasts, I really think the amount of negativity on this is going to be pretty low.

It should be lower.

It should be lower.

They, look, like I said, they won five out of six.

They are now 12 and five.

First place in the Eastern Conference.

I think first place by like a solid game and a half or something like that.

It helps that the second place was Boston and they just swept them without Jason Tatum.

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