In today's episode of the Sixers Beat, Rich and I kick off our off-season coverage.

Diving into our quick thoughts on whether or not we think Doc Rivers will be back, whether James Hardin will be back, whether Tobias Harris will return, whether or not Brooklyn will defer the 23rd pick in the draft to next year,

and whether or not the Sixers will have a selection in this year's draft,

and what's make of the reports that Theromori will go star hunting this summer.

Enjoy the podcast. All right, welcome, everybody.

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

It's been a, it's been a, hmm, when was the last time we podcast?

Probably about a week ago, a little over a week ago maybe.

How you don't?

I'm doing good, man.

It's been a, it's always that first wind down week where we don't have to go to games at night and basketball is still going on.

Hey, I mean, we're used to this.

We're used to second round.

Second round.

Kick your feet up and watch conference finals because we're not covering them, unfortunately. It is. You do get into a little bit of pattern, especially for me, like the first week after the season ends. And look, across the board, all of our usage rates go down a little bit, playoffs can be a little bit hectic. But a lot of the stuff that it's not even like I'm sitting on, you know, the beach, like kicking my feet up. Like, it's just stuff that I've been ignoring for the last two months. I've got a cracked windshield in my car. I got that fixed. Some house projects I've been like, ah, we can put that off until the summer. Well, the summer gets here a little earlier than expected, but you get to get some of those things off of your to-do list, which is always nice. But you always make fun of my cracked phone screen. You had a cracked windshield. I did have a cracked windshield. I had it for a couple of weeks there. Put that off until the season was over. but for me you get a couple games into into the conference finals, certainly by the time we get to the finals and you go, you know what, would have been nice to cover an NBA finals, certainly watching Boston and Miami. I feel like we're missing out on. But then again, I'm kind of used to missing out on it, which if we're saying that, it really sucks to be you guys, the listeners and the fans who devote so much to this team stuff.

The Miami Boston series, Miami is playing better than I thought, honestly, in that series.

That was a really tough win.

We're recording on Sunday morning, really tough win in Boston last night with everybody dropping like flies.

So maybe the heat were a little bit better than we gave them credit for. I still think Boston is going to win that series,

but Miami is certainly making it a war.

Yeah.

And it's, yeah, the other nice thing, though, I will say is that we got a full summer again.

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