In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I discuss Thursday's NBA trade deadline.

Recapping the rumors that are out there, on the potential for a Matisse Thibel trade,

on backup center options, and on everybody's favorite topic,

the chance of Sixers

duck the luxury tax.

Enjoy the podcast.

All right, welcome, everybody. This is Derek Bodner, joined by a guy who has also read the Oxford Dictionary.

Hey, Dorn Rich?

I don't get it.

You don't get it?

You don't remember when Kyrie claimed to have read the Oxford Dictionary?

No?

All right, that happened.

There's been so many different Kyrie. And it gets so dark, so I just can't. It does. He is now threatening or reportedly threatening. His camp is reportedly threatening to not play another game for a contending team if he is not traded. It's one of the wildest things I've ever seen. I did keep up on that.

Which I've definitely said at least like six different times about Kyrie Irving alone.

I did keep up on that this week.

And I would just like to say that I think the coach of the year award,

I know some national people like Danny LaRue and other people have,

have mentioned Doc getting the sixers

through the uh through the wilderness i don't care john vaughan i think jock vaughan's got to get it

i don't even care what the rest of the league's been doing jacques von i don't know did they i don't know

if they won last night they're 11 or 10 games above 500 right now. What? What? With all this stuff? And they still have a guy quitting on the team in the middle of the season. It's just crazy. Well, no, didn't you see his quote from like two weeks ago when he said that, you know, this year's been good because they don't have anyone with their foot out the door? They don't have anyone half bought in. I forget the exact quote, but he said something along that lines. Taking a dig at James Hardin, and then a week later, he's sitting out the rest of the season because he didn't get the contract extension. I'm looking this up right now. They won last night. They beat Washington without Durant and Kyrie. Yeah. Washington, shame on you.

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