In today's episode of the Sixers Beat,

Rich and I go over what we saw in the Sixers

convincing 127 to 111 win over the Atlanta Hawks in game three

to take control of the series,

and what to look out for as these Sixers look to close the series out.

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All right. Welcome, everybody. This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman, coming to you live, well, not live, recorded, but coming to you from Atlanta, a hotel in Atlanta, on the latest Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network. Rich, outside of being down in Atlanta, which might be good might be bad who knows how you doing i'm great hot lana yeah it is it is pretty hot down here

but i mean i guess it's hot everywhere it's uh we've got a couple of nice cool days up here in the

rainy days but a couple nice cool days in Philly.

I don't mind Atlanta, you know, staying around the arena, Centennial Park, kind of a nice center city-ish-type area, a little more spread out.

You know, in terms of stuff to do down here, I would say there's probably not a ton in this area, but I can see why

it's a pretty big transplant city and why people move down here. I have never been to Atlanta.

That is one of the NBA cities I've never been to. I theoretically, I might be going in game six.

If there is a game six after the last two games, really last two and a half games, I'm not 100% sure that there will be, which I guess is a game six after the last two games really last two and a half games i'm not a hundred

percent sure that there will be which i guess is a good segue into the topic of the podcast uh the

sixers took control of the series with a 127 to 111 win in game three i guess there's a couple

angles to go to i almost have to start off with Danny Green,

who went down after just a couple minutes in the first quarter of the game, was replaced by

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