I'm I'm All right. Welcome everybody back to the P.H.L.Y. Sixers podcast.

Join once again by Kyle Neubek and Rich Hoffman. And, ooh, boy, do we have some news to discuss.

Damian Lillard traded not to the Sixers but there will be some fallout. Real basketball things happening moves to analyze it's we are so back remember that day where he had to pretend like Kelly Ubrey really mattered and we were like oh my God we get something to talk about. This one's a little higher stakes.

Oh, come on.

A little higher stakes.

Kelly Ubray matters a little bit.

It matters to himself for sure.

Okay.

Oh, all right.

He'll get minutes. I'm kidding. He'll get minutes. I did not realize we were going to open the show just firing strays at Kelly Ubray. I mean, usually it's somebody firing strays at me, so I have to go on the offensive here.

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that. If we're going to fire strays at anyone, I want to make sure we fire the strays at all

the Miami Heat reporters who were absolutely deranged this entire offseason, essentially

convinced that it was paid accompli that the heat were going

to acquire Damien Lillard and now they're all making all kinds of excuses for why it didn't

happen and so I you know no no real anger for Miami Heat reporters it's just very funny to me that's all. Yeah. Well you did have anger at one Miami Heat reporters. It's just very funny to me. That's all. Well, you did have anger at one Miami Heat reporter. I won't relay what happened on press row, but there was once. There was once. Oh, that's right. I'm not even remember who that was. No, me neither. It's probably why I'm not relaying the story. I'm sorry. Go ahead. I remember that happening. I don't remember the reporter. Okay, we'll have to catch up on that one later. Yeah, they were like crestfallen and heartbroken in a way that's like, guys, you don't work for the Miami Heat. What's going on here? You would think they do. They're like an extension. We're getting called apologists yesterday. They're like an extension of Pat Riley in print and radio and podcast form.

And they don't understand, too, that, look, great organization clearly have the playoff

magic formula that this organization that we cover does not have.

Like, that is 100% all the respect in the world for that.

But the idea that people in Miamiami like don't understand you know people don't want you to get star

players because you've gotten so many of them already like it's a very obvious thing and i'll

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