All right, a good way to start the new year here on the PHLY Sixers podcast, our recurring guests, our friend from All-City Network and ESPN, Tim Legler.

Tim, happy new year to you, man.

Hey, great to see you guys. Thanks. Happy New Year to you.

Good to see you as well.

And look, man, as last time you guys talked, I wasn't with you, but good to be here with you now because I did have a question as we are sitting here, 30 plus games in now with so many questions that were going into the season with the Sixers, currently sitting four or five

games over 500 at this point of the year, right there in the mix in the Eastern Conference.

And with the injuries with Kelly Ubra, Kelly Trending Wofford out, Joel and B, Paul

George missing time as well.

And yet they're still right there in the mix, Tim.

How surprising is it for you as we sit here and talk about this team today?

I'm very surprised.

We're just looking at them at 19 and 15 based on what we know now.

Like if you had handed me a script before the season and said 34 games in, this is what the

availability was going to look like for Embed and Paul George in particular. I said there's

no way they're 19 and 15. So I give them a lot of credit for that because the thing with them,

going into the year, you know, we have to sit there and it's part of our job is to predict like

what the conference looks like and where these teams are going to finish. And, you know, there's to sit there and it's part of our job is to predict, like, what the conference

looks like and where these teams are going to finish.

And, you know, there's over or under a number of wins comes out and we go on shows.

We predict over or under that number.

Like, you know, the Sixers were without question the hardest team to predict because the

floor to ceiling is wider than any team in the NBA based on the health and availability of Paul

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