All right, everybody. What's up? What's cracking? It's the rich eyes and show basketball podcast. We're a day. Wait, sorry about that. But we are back. And guess who else is back? I don't know if you saw the video, TJ, you know, in the NFL,

uh, arrival videos have become kind of a thing. They've been, they've been taken after the NBA of dudes rolling up into the arena. We got to see the fits. We got to see the threads, the shoes, uh, Joe Borough had that like zebra tiger stripe thing at the Super Bowl. That was amazing. My God, it was incredible. So, uh, during the show today, the big show, I happened to look down and I saw the Ben Simmons showed up in Philadelphia. And he was wearing just

a workout clothes shorts t-shirt. I mean, he's not playing tonight, but Ben Simmons, TJ is back. He's back in the building and full of Delfi. Oh my goodness. Gigantic game tonight. Nets, Sixers, everyone is playing except Ben Simmons. Kyrie off a 50 burger. Kevin Durant said he doesn't care about your parlays after some two tweeted him that he cost him some big money because he only had like 18 the other night. James Hardin has been unbelievable. Uh,

in his Sixers 10 years thus far, Joel and B to steal your MVP favorite TJ thoughts heading into tonight's monster matchup. Well, this is an interesting way to start to show normally. We do a intro. So I was like, wait a minute. I'm just going right in time. You know, hey, you know, rich on the big show today was saying something that completely and totally blew my mind. Rich Eisen, who's been involved in sports for the better part of the last quarter 25 years. Correct. It was actually shocked and could not believe that fans.

Of a team would come to a game for the sole purpose, just to heckle a former player of theirs. And I'm sitting here in my seat as I tend to do. And I'm looking at rich. And I'm like, all right, when's the ha ha coming around. I'm just playing on a psych. And no, he was dead serious. I'm like, rich. Have you just started watching sports? Have you just met people? Have you never been on social media? This is all what people do. Like they they heckle. They talk trash and they post stuff in this

especially in Philadelphia where Ben Simmons is coming back after the way he departed the town, after the way he departed the city, after the way he departed the team. Now he's making his return. And you think that the kind people of Philadelphia aren't going to express themselves. Mostly in a negative fashion and manner. I meant, but you think they're not going to express themselves loudly tonight. Come on now. Stop it.

I think rich being an East Coast guy would understand the Philadelphia fans are some of the most angry, vindictive, bitter people in the planet. Well, Adam, apparently during the show, rich that the fans don't like that. That Santa Claus talking don't like the Santa. Well, that's fine. You know what? They don't like it. Then you shouldn't have done it. Right.

Like they don't own it. Like everyone knows about the jail and the spectrum. They're angry people. I went to Penn State for school. Some of the worst fans in the world are Philadelphia fans. I'm sorry to say.

They're passionate, but they're so angry and so frustrating to deal with. And they're going to go crazy tonight.

But I was supposed to make us embossed and just look like you're pleasant next door. Well, don't get crazy now. That easy, baby, easy. But I will say this and I won't say too loud. Everyone I do know from Philly can fight. So there's that.

Yeah. So, you know, I'm just saying I don't know many people from Philly that can't throw them dogs from the shoulder. So I, you know, I'm the safest from behind this mic and not to nobody's face.

And think about the boiling anger these fans have had the last year about Ben Simmons. Yeah. Think about the rage that is inside of their systems.

And they're waiting to unleash that tonight on him. And it is going to be awesome to watch. I cannot wait.

You know what also is amazing too. And like, I don't know if it was previously scheduled this way. But if the NBA in any way manipulated the schedule, there are only two games tonight in the association on Thursday.

It's net sixers at 430. It's warriors nuggets at seven. Just a straight up old school TNT double. Remember back in the day TNT used to always have the double header on Thursday.

They still have it. But those used to be the only two games of the night. Now, you know, Thursday's coming off day for most teams, but there's generally four or five games on the slate.

I really hope that they saw this. The trade went down and they went, let's move some things around here. Let's slide this over there. Net sixers national TV audience. Sorry, 430 Pacific.

I'm hoping that TNT decides to do a Ben Simmons cam where there's a camera only on Ben Simmons the entire game. And I want to see the people behind him and what they're doing because there might be a cheesesteak thrown at him.

That's what will happen. It is going to be awesome tonight's watch. Yeah, we discussed that during the game. Rich was like, do you think there's going to be a Ben Simmons can. I'm like, absolutely. There's going to be a camera dedicated on him. And I also said that maybe the audio should be turned off on that camera.

Because there's going to be stuff that's being said that you probably never thought you'd live to hear little that you never thought you'd live to hear in a public forum.

TNT some words that don't come together usually come together are going to come together remember electric company back in the day.

They have two silhouettes and it would be like two people saying the word and it would be like one syllable than the other syllable.

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