In today's episode of the Sixers Beat, Rich and I dive into the listener mailbag.

Going over everything from growth in the young players, how to best maximize Joel

and Bede in their defensive scheme, why you should have hope for the Sixers as a title contender,

and a little bit of a dive into the Sixers' upcoming salary cap situation

regarding George Hill, Danny Green, the mid-level, and the apron.

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Music subscription. Enjoy the podcast. All right.

Welcome, everybody.

This is Derek Bonner, joined by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, part of the

Athletics Podcast Network. How you doing, Rich?

I'm good, man. Holiday weekend, podcasting with you. It is. About to hit some mailbag questions.

We are. It is all. What's more American than that? Yeah. Talking about basketball, I did do a little

grilling earlier today. Yeah, it's a, it's a good, it would be nice if it would stop raining a little bit. That would be great. I think it's supposed to be a pretty nice day tomorrow, isn't it? It's supposed to stop tonight. Didn't, didn't get grilling get canceled or something online yesterday? Did it? I don't know. I don't know. I've been offline more often than not lately, mostly because when I'm online, I get frustrated about something.

So I've been trying to be a little more offline here in the week and a half, two weeks since the season ended.

All right.

So let's just jump into the mailbag.

We took some questions from readers, both through Twitter and through

emails, so we will jump pretty much right into that nothing has changed. Sixers still lost

game seven. There have been no transactions yet. To date, we still have some time before the

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