In today's episode of the Sixers Beat, Rich and I talk about the Sixers'

Five and No Road Trip, which has moved them into sole position of second place in the Eastern Conference

and given them the NBA's third best record since their one in five start to the season.

We talk about how they continue to

win without Juell Embed and James Harden, the ability to overcome adversity that they have shown,

and whether or not that changes or evaluation of their playoff chances. Enjoy the podcast.

All right. Welcome, everybody.

This is Derek Bodner.

Join by Rich Hoffman on Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

Hey, doing, Rich. Derek, I'm doing

fine. And we're here to talk about the biggest story in Philadelphia sports right now. Oh,

wait, not the biggest, but a good one still. After every 38 to 7 playoff win, I am doing fine as

well. But that is not the sport that we are paid to cover.

It was great to come out there and beat down the, I don't want to call them the giants.

I don't want to call them any other name because we're appreciative of people of all heights

and sizes, unless you're trying to defend the perimeter, then short people become a bit of a hassle.

But outside of that, like everyone is unique and great, but they were certainly not the Giants last night. They were the, you know, the average-sized humans playing against a very good football team. And that was great to see. It was great to see. Enjoyed it very much. I love it when when our football team is like actually just way better than the other one. Yeah. It's awesome.

Yeah. It is.

It is.

And as much as you might have had concerns about Hertz and whether how much that would impact the game plan, he put that to bed pretty quickly. But. Yep. Hertz and Lane. Both playing is awesome. Yep. What was the thing? The other thing that I just thought of, literally as we're talking, next weekend,

you got Sixers Nuggets on Saturday and then a conference finals game.

Yeah.

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