After a 24 and 58 season that none of us saw coming, we are here on draft lottery night where this is a huge, huge moment

for the Philadelphia 76ers. And we are here with you live for NBA lottery night as the Philadelphia

76ers finished with the fifth worst record in the NBA, the fifth best eyes for the lottery

tonight, and an opportunity

to, as we talked about a little bit earlier here on the PHLY Sixers podcast, try to save things

for the offseason and then the regular season for next year.

And the future of our lives and careers, baby.

Alongside Derek Bodner, Rich Hoffman, Kyle Newbeck, I'm Devon

Givens, president of basketball operations. Bree is producing. Chris is hanging out with us here,

and we have our live draft lottery party ongoing in our offices. And so many people, Rich,

have been talking about how nervous they are as we await what happens here tonight with the opportunity in front of the Sixers.

A lot of great people out there. Nice turnout. I'm with them, Devon. I'm with them, man.

I'm the only one that's not nervous. I am so nervous. Joe Kula, I'm trying, man. Not all of us have cousins currently playing in the playoffs. I'm nervous about that. I mean, they're talking about Celtics Nix right now on the brackets. Do they understand their livelihoods are at life or? This is more, I need those ping pong balls flying across the screen. Do you still have the, do you have the ping pong ball with you? I do not. I left it out there on purpose. I left it out there on purpose. I didn't want to

bring that in here. We did that for the earlier show. But again, man, just as we talked about,

some nerves that are starting to build up as we are here now, 701. And as we see Cooper

Flag on television, he is the prime prime prize and his teammates from Duke,

also in Chicago for the draft lottery. But a lot of nerves, man, Kyle, a lot of nerves for a lot

of people because as you said, it just relies so much on this happening tonight for the sixers

to stay within the top six, number one.

But if they can capture the flag, then that would just turn things around a great deal.

And this is a lot different from, I mean, we went through these lottery drawings a bunch of

years in a row, right? Where you're going into it, hoping that they get a high value pick,

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