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This is the Sports Reporters.

Here's Mike Lupica and Mitch Albon.

I am Mike Lupica, MLB.com, and the New York Daily News.

And I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press, and we welcome you to

this edition of the Sports Reporter's podcast. Bob Ryan has the day off, so Mike and I are going to go

at it mono on mono, but there is an awful lot of material to fill up this show. Too bad we don't

have a lot to talk about today. And a lot of it is about a big orange ball and a big story about a little white ball.

But right now we will talk about the Atlanta Hawks into the Eastern Conference finals over the Philadelphia 76ers in a game that really had a little bit of everything, including a lot of mistakes, way

too many for Philadelphia. They lost their third game of the series at home in game seven. And it's a

series that leaves as many questions for the future of the Philadelphia 76ers as it does

possibilities for the future of the Philadelphia 76ers as it does possibilities for the

future of the Atlanta Hawks.

Mike, let me throw the question of you.

Did Atlanta win this or did Philly lose this game seven?

You know, at the end of the day, Mitch, if you win three games on the road in the same

series, which is almost unheard of, okay, then I think you

want it. And we'll talk about Ben Simmons and we'll talk about Embed, you know, soldiering on

despite a torn cartilage in his knee. But Mitch, last night, you know, everybody said

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