In today's episode of the Sixers beat, Rich and I go over MacKleong's electric performance

in the dunk contest before pivoting to the listener mailbag.

Going over questions about whether Sixers focused too heavily on the backup center spot

in the buyout market, who the Sixers should prioritizing bring back this summer out of Shake Milton, George

Nying, and Jalen McDaniels?

What the ideal playoff bracket would be for the Philadelphia 76ers?

Whether Tyrese Maxie should continue coming off of the bench and more.

If you'd like to submit a question to a future mailbag, send an email to

Mailbag at Sixersbeat.com. Enjoy the podcast.

All right, welcome everybody. This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on Sixers Beat, a part of the athletics podcast network.

We are now the home. We are now officially a MacBicklung podcast. He came out there and dazzled. And I don't even mean that with the slightest bit of sarcasm.

That was legitimately cool to see a guy who a week ago was a G-League player.

I think he had played like, what, four games in NBA, spot minutes.

To have Janus just completely in awe must have been the,

it must be the moment of his basketball career.

It really must have.

Yeah. And I mean, I think anybody who knew who Mack was before this, he was, at the time in high school, he was a high school YouTube sensation.

He threw down these dunks. He played at a small high school in southwestern Virginia.

Probably not the greatest high school competition in the world.

But he blew up online because here is this six foot one, six foot two white kid, just throwing down these insane dunks, insanity.

And at the time, there really were kind of two people who were the king of the high school

mixtapes.

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