I'm Thank you. All right. Welcome everybody back to the PHLY Sixers podcast.

I'm Derek Botner, joined by a guy who might be starting at cornerback for the Philadelphia

Eagles with the way that game shook out.

If not, he will be with us all week here in a PHLY Studios.

How you doing, Kyle?

Well, first of all, I just want to point out we are in some beautiful pHLY locker, merchandise.

We were very close to wearing the exact same piece of merch when I left today,

but I went back.

I grabbed the shirt because we could not be the same,

but we did get our gear in over the weekend.

If you haven't gotten your gear, go check it out p.hlylockery.com.

So you can be as cool and stylish as us.

Yeah, it turns out the two fashionistas of the company decided on the black hoodie on the same day. So, you know, I'm not going to lie. This is perfect because on the one hand, I get to be a good company man. I get to promote our gear. And I don't have to worry, like, think about fashion at all. It's perfect. You might see me in PHLY gear every day. Maybe not. Maybe I'll get creative every now and then, but I love it. Well, we already have Eric is shocked that we have a table buddy. This is not the first time we've been in this studio. We do have two studios, one of which has a nice table in front of us for a laptop. So yeah, we're off off to a flying start here today. We've probably done about five shows from here or so, somewhere in that range. Yeah. We'll be back and forth. So as much as I would like to talk about that, well, not really. This is like the one time where I've been like, gosh, I'm glad I'm doing a Sixers podcast, not an Eagles podcast because that fourth quarter was, the whole game was tough, but that fourth quarter was especially tough. And as much as I would love to talk about tonight's Phillies game, and that time I mean it. earnestly, we have the Sixers to talk about. You were there at practice on Friday. You heard James Harden address media for the first time this season. Give us just sort of like a overview of what

he said and what you took away from it. Yeah. So I think big picture here, the main thing with James

Hardin is that this is not getting resolved between him and Darryl Morey. I think where you go from there is you say,

will they be able to convince him to suit up for the team because it's in his and the team's

best interest to get him back on the floor and playing? That's sort of an unknown right now. But

James went to great lengths on Friday to essentially say

Darrell betrayed me.

Darrell didn't do what he was supposed to do.

Darrell cut off all contact with me after a certain point, which I think that to me is the

key sticking point that I want to get your

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