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In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I talk about the Sixers reportedly hiring Nick Nurse to be their next head coach.

Enjoy the podcast. All right, welcome everybody.

This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

Here to talk about the all-time three-point percentage leader of the University of North, Northern Iowa.

How you doing, Rich? Is that true?

It is. Might not be the reason we're going to spend this podcast talking about him, but it is true.

Northern Iowa? Northern Iowa, yep. All right, that's D1. The issue with that, I am sure, and I guess we're going to start by roasting Nick Nurse,

you know, there are a lot of times when people would say, oh, Steve Kerr is one of the greatest shooters of all time.

Yeah.

Steve Kerr was an amazing shooter for his era.

He took like a couple threes per game. And they were generally

pretty open. Yeah. Well, he did play on a pretty good team at the end of his career where,

where the other guys got doubled. You know, it's funny. No, I mean, back back in those times,

like if you took a three off the dribble, like you were sent to the bench. Like, the difficulty

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