I'm After will he won't he out on the injury

After will he won't he out on the injury report earlier today, Maxie also out.

And then comes the game time decision of Joelle and Bede in for the 76s.

And boy, did they need every bit of his presence out there as he makes his return after 29 game absence.

Gets on the floor against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Helps lead the Sixers to a win over the Thunder, 109, 105.

He's back and we are back.

Welcome to the P.H.L.Y. Sixers postgame show.

Derek Bodner, Devon Givens, Brianna, producing the show, all of you in the chat. There are so many people already lined up for this show. Kyle Newbeck would join us live from the arena to let us know what it was like in the second half. Derek, you can tell us what it was like pregame first half before you left the arena to come back here.

I wish I could have just said, Derek, you stay there. I'll anchor everything from back here and you just check in when you can because that game was fun. I didn't think they were going to win the game, to be perfectly honest with you. But really good one and great to see the big fella back man yeah i mean look it is like i said

once you found out he was upgraded to questionable you knew he was going to play whenever he's

questionable he plays i think it's probably about a 95% success rate and he don't make that change

that late in the process yeah if you weren't going to put him out there so once he he did that

uh the most anticipated pregame walk through we've seen in quite some time,

just to see how he looked, see what the brace looked like on the knee, and see, quite frankly,

the first real meaningful basketball we've seen in two months. Like there's been a lot of

nonsense basketball. You've been trying to just claw out a win here and there.

Now, finally, you have a chance to see how everything looks when it's put together. And when the center of a universe is on the floor. There's a lot to evaluate here over the last. How many other? Seven games left? Six games left. Six now. Six now. We're going to have a lot to talk about. We're going to have a lot to digest.

But there's just a,

obviously, there's a completely different excitement level. That is a player who is central to everything you do on the court, but that is also a player who has a connection with the fans that outside of Allen Iverson you haven't seen here in the last 30 years. So there's just an energy that has been sorely missing, both on the floor and in the fans.

It was great. Before we get to the game, you said the most anticipated walk up pregame workout that we've

seen in a long time.

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