We just talked about them just because that was the big takeaway of that great ceremony that took place.

And cool to see the current team in the uniforms with those players there, really good stuff.

But before we get to that, drawling beat, 40 point double double, fantastic work.

Finishes the month off, averaging 29 points, eight rebounds, close to nine boards, playing some really good basketball.

34, Derek said, in the last seven. Just putting the team on his back tonight to make sure that they

beat this Pelican squad. Yeah, and we had a pretty fun or pretty surprising, I should say,

detour during Joel and Bede's post-game availability.

I was asking him about this is the first 40-point game in the regular season you've had in

two years since you dropped 70 on Wembe.

Like, are you still surprising yourself with these milestones and these big performances?

And he said, honestly, this year was sort of a tryout year for me, that this was, we had to

figure out what is the plan, what is the process, how does this all come together for me

to be my best self, to be on the floor as much as possible.

And then he went out of his way, so I know Dr.

Glashow has gotten all the shine. He specifically called out Simon Rice, who essentially

is their head of medical internally for the Sixers, and said, he's the guy who always believed

at me. He's the guy who always came to me and said, what can I do? What can we try?

How many different ways can we go about this?

And like stayed with him on it and never shouted Joel down,

never told him his body was wrong.

And according to Joel said, like,

I'm here to do whatever it takes to get you back to where you need to go.

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