listen when football is over

football is over and that town begins to fully attenuate its sights on the Philadelphia

76ers that better be a positive story. They boot him against the spurs like they already were in it. Yes. I think there's a home opener. They were

bullied at speed. This is listen we can argue about whether or not that is wise or pathological or whatever, but that's just Philly. Yeah. Hello and welcome to take line I'm your host Jason Concepcion.

This week we're going NBA Heavy,

and athletic heavy, the great, the wonderful,

the best ever do it, Zach Harper,

NBA Insider Extraordinair, and of course... the best ever do it, Zach Harper,

NBA Insider, Extraordinair, and of course,

one of the great hosts of the Athletic NBA shows,

my co-host today, is we dissect the early season struggles

of the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers, then

Zach's fellow NBA insider at the athletic John Hollinger, the creator of PER, former

front office executive for the Memphis Grizzlies, one of the great analysts

looking at the NBA today will join us and he will be giving us some of his

thoughts his way way too early thoughts on the first week of the NBA season. Zach, it is way too early to make sweeping pronouncements about things like, oh, the Nix

are better than we thought, the Jaz are out of the Wembee sweepstakes because they're playing too well.

But I think that it is definitely not too early to make very, very authoritative statements about the Philadelphia

76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers the Lakers we expected yeah but let's talk

about the Sixers because folks everything coming out of Philly that is not Phillies related is bad right now and

and Eagles related like it's it's bad yeah here's the thing I don't like to over overreact, right? I like to have some fun here, but I for the most part I'm so vain that I want to have measured takes on the MBA not swing one way or the other at the drop of the hat because I want to be correct right like that's how vain I am I would rather be correct and bias or whatever

I had in the power rankings on the athletic for opening week I had I think the Sixers sixth in the

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