In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I discuss the devastating news of Joel

Mbe's right orbital fracture and concussion, the latest we're hearing on how long he might be

out of the lineup, how the Sixers can match up with Miami Heat until he's able to return,

and our overall thoughts on the upcoming second round series.

Enjoy the podcast.

All right. Welcome, everybody. This is Derek Bodner, along with Richman, on a Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

Here to you for the second time, for the first time.

How you doing, Rich?

Long time, no talk, buddy.

So, I guess, first off to apologize for the fact that this is the first podcast of the week.

Part of that came because we're going

to do one on Wednesday, and then I came down with the COVID. So we had delayed that for a couple

days. I'm doing fine. Don't worry about me. That delayed the podcast for a little bit. Then we got

around to doing one on Friday night. Hung up Zoom, maybe a half an hour later, word came out that Joelle and Bede had a

right orbital fracture and a mild concussion and was listed as out. So pretty much everything we

talked about in that initial podcast, just hit the delete button, didn't really matter anymore.

We talked about, honestly, it was pretty, you'll have to take our word for it.

It was a pretty positive podcast.

Super positive podcast.

Because, you know, it kind of came out that like, look, maybe there was one extra game in there where they played frustratingly bad.

But three out of five games or three out of six games, they were unstoppable offensively.

Joel and B. looked like he was rebounding from that thumb injury.

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