I'm I'm What a difference. What a difference a win makes after 76ers take down the Knicks on Thursday night.

Everything changes in a positive way, of course, with the fan base.

Welcome to the PHLY Sixers podcast here along with Derek Bodner and Kyle Newbeck.

Back with us in studio studio they've been all over

the place folks and we appreciate them being here of course it's their show but they've had

to travel be at the arenas it's good to have it's our show it's not their show we're not going to

hold that three-month vacation against you forever Devon well you have and certainly

you still keep the tally you still keep the the tally going. And certainly since, you know, you've been, you've been the point man here on the show while we've been at the arena. It would hardly be fair to say it's our show. I met in the sense of you guys have been in every other place but here. But it's Glad to have you back. I am Devon Givens with Derek Bonner and Kyle Newbeck.

Brianna is producing the show. of you of course with us in the chat

and we have a lot to talk about again uh just the different feeling that it was after last night's

victory and then having everything go with the mb piece of it dropping 50 points knowing he's

already dealing with

a leg injury. But even after that, we get the report that he's also dealing with something else.

Derek, when it comes to the Bell's palsy, is broken by Adrian Wojnerowski. And that just

adds to the story, of course, of what he was able to do in that space down to O following what he said in

New York when you guys were there saying, we're going to win this series. And I was one of them

that's like, you've got to be careful about saying you were the better team down to O. But for

him to do that, that now adds to the lure of what Joel and Veed has done so far. And it actually

helps his playoff history now a little bit if, of course, he's able to do a little bit more in the series and push them through it. Yeah, it really does. And, you know, we, in our last show that we did in studio as a trio, we mentioned that he had gotten hit in the eye in game one. After that happened, I had people reach out to me and say, like, hey, don't so much look for a specific incident that is causing whatever's going on with the eye in game one. After that happened, I had people reach out to me say like, hey,

don't so much look for a specific incident that is causing whatever's going on with the eye. It's something more general. Now we got confirmation on what that is. Obviously, when you started seeing his symptoms with the one side of his mouth not really moving, people started speculating online. So I think it's probably good that they eventually did address this, even if Joe maybe didn't want it being out there.

You can only go to so many press conferences with sunglasses on,

not showing your face before people really start asking questions. So I think it's good that people know what he's going through because what he's going through is a lot. And I sort of wrote about that this morning, all p.hly.com. You can read what I wrote, what I wrote, what I wrote, it's all there. But the whole soft label, not just for him, but athletes in general, always feels weird to me, because it feels like we use soft as a synonym for injured. When being injured means you're playing, like the implication is sort of that he's unable to play through pain, that other people would be able to play through when the reality

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