In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I go back into the listener mailbag,

going over our most optimistic player comparisons for the Sixers, young players, talking about

who could potentially be buyers or sellers at the NBA trade deadline, and discussing the

impact and the prevalence of injuries in the modern NBA compared to previous

eras.

One quick note on the podcast, we recorded this a little bit ago as Rich is currently on vacation.

Notably, we recorded this before the news came down that Kevin Durant would be returning

to the Brooklyn Nets, at least for now.

I'm mentioning this because at one point in this podcast, we do mention our expectations

that the rant is eventually moved. So I want to point that out here that this was recorded

before that news broke. With that out of the way, welcome, everybody.

This is Derek Bundner, joined once again by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

How you doing, Rich? Long time, no see.

Derek, I'm all warmed up for this podcast.

I've been flapping my gums for about 40 minutes already.

All right.

So this is part two of the mailbag podcast that we are recording here.

A week separation.

Give Rich a little time away from yours truly.

So we will just jump right back into the mailbag here.

This one coming from Bert.

He says,

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