In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I discuss our takeaways from Media Day and the opening of training camp,

and discuss the reports that Ben Simmons and his camp believe that his pairing with Joel and Bede has, quote, run its course.

If you're not already an athletic subscriber, head on over to Theathletic.com slash Sixersbeat to sign up to read Rich and my written work.

Enjoy the podcast.

All right. welcome, everybody.

This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on Sixers Beat, part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

You know, Rich, I have seen you now two days in a row.

I truthfully can't remember the last time that happened.

It's been a minute.

How you doing, buddy? I'm good, man. There has been a little bit of a sense of return to normalcy. Yeah. It is Sixers normal, which means there is all kinds of controversy going on,

but at least it is normal in the fact that we are in the Sixers building

in the practice facility.

That is somewhat normal.

And we're not getting called on Zoom anymore.

We don't have to do any of that.

Shit.

We still got to wear masks and stand, you know, a few feet away from people, but that's

still a lot better than last year. It is. I can complain about traffic on 95 again. I really

missed that. Oh, yeah. But yeah. Yeah. All part of the job. It's, it's like any other workplace,

though, man. I think the, it's one of the tough things about the quarantine and COVID.

It's just like human interaction is, it's important.

Even for curmudgeon like me, it's important.

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