After a weekend sweep at home for the Sixers, we get a nice and easy Monday mailback here on the Ph.LY Sixers podcast.

Welcome to the show live from the Xfinity Lounge, along with

Derek. Kyle, I'm Devon Brie, president of basketball ops, hanging out with you and all of you

good people there in the chat. We appreciate you all hanging out with this. We will talk about so much

here on the show today with the mailback questions. We'll get into a little bit with Joelle a little bit later and... The birthday boy. Some news and notes that we have to get into. I think that's going to be a long conversation with the news and notes. So we'll maybe do that, start that a little bit earlier than usual with the news and notes. We'll have that for you later. But yes, the birthday boy,

Joelle Embed, is he playing this week on this road trip? We will find out. But in order for him to

play and for them to have some success in the playoffs, they get there, whether it's to play in or the top

six, and they're just automatically in. Playoffs.

Playoffs.

He needs to be on the floor for them to do any kind of damage in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

That's where we'll begin with our first mailback question of the afternoon as we talk about

the top four seeds and the matchups and the Sixers once

they get there and what it will in fact look like. Ah, E. Ross says, by the way, news and notes,

I'm swept up in this tornado. Everybody, be careful. Stay safe out there. Stay safe. Get

home safely. If you got to take a little bit of time, if you're stuck at work and you feel like, you know what, maybe I shouldn't brave this at this moment. Be careful, everybody as we get ready for this impending tornado in Philadelphia. What are we doing here? The one benefit we have up here is we don't have natural disasters. Exactly. Can't take that away from it. All right, you got it. But, all right, let's get

to the mailback question to start off with question number one here. From Hedfa, friend to the show,

if you could pick with a healthy Sixers team, healthy Sixers team, or the top four seeds in the east from most favorable to least

favorable as far as matchup tempo style, et cetera there for the mailback question. So Derek,

what do you have for this first question? It's a good question. There's still a part of me,

and I'm a glutton for punishment, I guess.

At one point during this run, I want to beat the Boston Celtics.

That doesn't mean its most favorable matchup, not in a long shot.

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