In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I go over the Sixers' Draft Day Hall of Jaden Springer, Philip, Petrusev, and Charles Bassie, and what is going on with the Ben Simmons situation.

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Welcome, everybody.

This is Derek Bodner,

joined by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat,

the part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

Well, you know, Rich, the draft came.

It went, as we all expected, there was a trade on draft night.

Just not necessarily the trade that I think a lot of people were looking for.

How you doing, Rich?

I'm good, man.

I, uh, I got to say, we've been doing this for a while.

I don't exactly know when the first draft recap pod was, but we're probably going back

seven, eight years at this point now.

I got to say, in terms of the juice, that was about as boring of a draft as we have had from a sixer standpoint. I don't

know if that transfers over to the entire NBA, but man, I was falling asleep. Once it was clear,

Ben Simmons was not going to be dealt. That was really the only chance to make it exciting,

but I mean, the draft itself, it had absolutely nothing.

Even last year, like we're talking, you know, they've been good for a few years now.

Even last year and the year before, you know, drafting Matisse, drafting Max, just had more juice than last night.

Well, because last year they

had the um the thunder pick so they were higher than they normally would be the difference between

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