Sixers are on their last stage of their NBA Cup break back on Friday.

Until then, you get another 3 p.m. show here from the PHLY Sixers podcast,

live from the Xfinity Lounge. It's Derek. I'm Devon and Bree, the president of basketball

operations here with us. Kyle is on vacation. All of you in the chat, it's great to see you.

We are here presented by Bet365, whatever the moment's never ordinary at Bet365. We'll talk a little bit later about the NBA Cup. We've got to get into that. The final four is set for Las Vegas. Are we going to Vegas? Now going to Vegas? For the Cup? Yeah. No. I'm not going to Vegas. I mean, Kyle's out there load managing during cup season as it is. We're definitely not heading out there. All right, we're not going to Vegas,

but Vegas is all set for the final four. We'll talk about that a little bit later. Maybe some

news and notes as well, but first we have to talk about the evolution of one, Tyrese Maxie, and where he is because the teammates are raving about him,

stories are being written about him, not just locally here at all-P-H-L-Y.com,

where, of course, we hope all of you are signed up as part of the family here,

but also you see so many other different publications writing about how good

Tyrese Maxie has been. I was listening to something the other day where they were asking about

him being a first team, all-MBA guard. And this is a big time conversation for the people that

were talking about it. And I was like, oh, I know we've had this conversation off the air,

but we were wondering, because of the Sixes record and all of that, yes, Maxie is doing all this great stuff. Is he going to be a second team or is he going to be a third team or he's up against Kate Cunningham, Luca Donchich, Anthony Edwards, Jalen Brunson and the whole New York piece of it. Is he even going to crack the first team all NBA?

He might.

All of that.

The evolution of Tyrese maxi where we are.

And with it, the last two days of practice for the Sixers now that they are gearing up to get back on the floor after these four days off, players speaking about him on Wednesday,

Derek again at practice today, and Andre Drummond and some others speaking about Tyrese Wednesday. Derek again at practice today.

And Andre Drummond and some others speaking about Tyrese and his leadership.

And what he has done to keep this team afloat with Maxi being the main guy,

but George and Embed being out.

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