All right.

This is Derek Bodner joined by Rich Hoffman on a somber start to 2020.

How you doing, Rich?

I'm annoyed, Derek.

Yes.

And I meant somber, by the way that the Sixers are playing.

I guess somber on a more serious note because of the passing of David Stern yesterday at 77,

which just a real titan of sports, a titan of the direction of the league and of so many different ways that we can't even begin to.

We can do a whole podcast on David Stern that a lot of good for the game of basketball and everything from, I think, WNBA and how it's taken off to

international basketball, to the popularity of stars, to the salary cap. Like, we can go on and on and on.

He had a huge impact on all of that. And that was a tough loss, for sure. And that an amazing character,

too, with some of the backroom stories, I think, you know, just reading Woj's piece yesterday on ESPN, where

he is unabashedly rooting for Kevin Durant and Greg Oden to go to big markets. And when, uh,

when it comes up Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Deep South, he's sitting there muttering to himself.

That's, uh, he definitely was one of a kind. Yeah, there was. Yeah, yes, he south. He's sitting there muttering to himself. He definitely was one of a kind.

Yeah, there was, yeah, yes, he was. And there are, if you want, there will be better podcasts out

there to tell you about David Stern. Rich and I had pretty limited interaction, so we would be

mostly telling you. I met him at a lottery or two, but have no real stories to tell you.

There are other people who can paint the character of David Stern better than we can, so we will move on to the basketball team, which we do

spend a lot of time around, a lot of time thinking about and talking about your Philadelphia

76ers. Now, you were on the road. I think you were leaving that day, actually, when we talked

to Mike about the Milwaukee win, the high point of the season, maybe the high point of the last, I don't know, almost decade.

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