In today's episode of the Sixers Beat, Rich and I go up and down to Sixers roster,

making our best guesses over whether each player from last year's team will return for next year.

Enjoy the podcast. All right, welcome everybody. This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

How you doing, Rich?

Derek, I'm doing fine. I don't really have anything else for you.

No, no great intro. It is weird. No reason for it, honestly. Just doing okay, you know? That's good. That's good. There could be worse. It is a little weird. We usually see each other multiple times a week, talk to each other in podcast twice a week. Now we're talking once a week and not seeing each other at all.

So I have not seen you.

So maybe there could have been something that would have happened here in the last week. Apparently, you live a boring life, which is great. I live one too. But I guess today, you know, last week we sort of talked about an article that we were both working on in the James Hardin contract stuff, which a lot of stuff.

I guess this week we will talk about an article that you have already written, which every year

you do a stay or go article, listing out all the people on the roster and trying to predict

what is going to happen to their Sixers fate. I think the last two years, last two years,

we have done this together because we both wrote for the athletic Philly. I think we're pretty on the nose on most of them, weren't we? I feel like we had a, in terms of predicting what would happen to them, certainly I think we were in the A or B range. Yeah. And as we've, as we've gone along here, I feel like we, uh, we do a good job of covering our tracks a little bit when it's a diceier one.

But yeah, I mean, I think two years ago we got that Horford and Jay Rich were the ones that were leaving last season.

I think we were wrong because we went with Ben leaving in the off

season. Whatever. He never played a game for him. I'm counting that. I'm counting that. They tried.

So yeah, for the most part, it's been it's been pretty good. And I think, um, you know, for this year

where there's no, I don't know that with Ben, J. Rich and Al, those were the obvious leave guys. And I feel like this year where there's no, I don't know, with Ben, Jay Rich and Al, those were the obvious

leave guys. And I feel like this year it's a little less clear cut, not just because of

performance, but there's also contract and tradeability and what the Sixers can even

attach to their moves. I actually think there is an obvious move, but the question is, can they get a thumb? So I guess we will get to that when we get there. How would you like to start from the obvious days to the, like, we don't need to talk about Joel and Bede, right? We don't need to talk about that one. We can skip him. I think we can probably both agree that we can skip harden for the most part. We talked about him for 40 minutes. We did talk about him for 40 minutes last week. I think we're both in agreement that it is a very high, almost guaranteed chance he will be back. The question is under what terms? And I wrote like 5,000 articles on those, or 5,000 words on those terms. And we did a 40-minute

podcast. So we don't really need to get too deep into him. I guess we'll probably just start

off with the most controversial or debated one. I don't even really think it's controversial.

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