Nine days away, everybody. Yes, we're getting closer and closer to the start of the Sixers season and their blue and white scrimmage.

Now has people back on board.

Welcome to the P.HLY Sixers podcast live from the Exfinity Lounge.

Derek, Kyle, I'm Devon.

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Visit Rothmanortho.com slash p.h-l-Y to learn more. Figure out what you need to do to get back on track so you can make it down to the arena to get nuts and watch your basketball team. Also, we want you to hit the like button. You guys have been fantastic. Now you're going to need these phone fingers when you see Joel and Bede on the season opener. That's right. Or the home opener, whichever one, or whatever opener it is for him, you're going to need your phone finger. Hit that like button everybody. We really appreciate as always. Hope you had a great weekend. We have our mailback questions a little bit later, but we do have to, in fact, start with Joel and Bede and all that we saw at the Sixers Open Practice, their annual blue and white

scrimmage in Delaware at the 76thers Fieldhouse, home of the Delaware Blue Coats.

And Derek, as soon as we walked in, we saw the big fellow on the floor running and it was like, huh, interesting. By the way, look at Terran's nights. You owe us a dollar, Terrence, ramping up. Look at that. Ramping up. Stuff a dollar in that jar. Look at the dollars in the jar. By the way. You know what, Terran? I mean,

we're in a good mood after that. We got all the bucks here, Kyle. We got the bucks. Oh, man. We got all the bucks for the jar. So Terran's nice. Well, I'm not going to lie, that looks a little counterfeit, but we're throwing a dollar in the jar for you, Terrence. But Derek, you got to let everybody know how did Joel and B look yesterday.

He looked really good. $1 in the jar for you, Terrence. But Derek, you got to let everybody know how did Joel and Bede look yesterday.

He looked really good.

And I think we'll start off with.

Like, he is not just last year slim.

This is the slimmest I've seen Joel and Bede since he started playing professional basketball.

Now, he was, you know, thinner when he was first drafted, but then he had the two years off by the time he started playing, he had put some weight on. He has lost so much weight that it's undeniable. Like last year, he said he lost 20 pounds and you could see it. This year, it feels like he took that 20 pounds. And I don't want to say doubled it, but certainly continued to progress to a point where

this isn't just a slight difference from where he was, you know, I don't want to say last time

we saw him, but back in the Nick series and even before then, he is noticeably slower,

noticeably lighter on his feet. And I think you can see that because he is moving around pretty

well. Again, he had a couple of dunks where every time, you know, he jumped and landed, everyone in the press section was staring directly at him to see whether or not he winced at all or whether or not there's any kind of reaction. There wasn't, but we're going to have that kind of instinct for quite a while. But I thought he was moving well. I thought he was pretty light on his feet. He certainly

looked good. He didn't show any signs of discomfort. And here's what I'll say. Like, we can sit here and react in a big way to the scrimmage, but in reality, that's just the first time we've gotten to see it. He's been doing this for weeks. And I think to me, that is still the main takeaway is that oh he's been doing this for weeks they're comfortable enough putting him out in

public to show you he's been doing this for

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