It's officially All-Star Weekend for the NBA, and a lot of players say some things when they're there, together with the cameras, the questions all in Los Angeles.

Welcome to the P.H.O.I. Sixers podcast on a Friday live from the XFinity Mobile Studio on this Friday, along with Derek Kyle.

I'm Devon, free, president of basketball operations, all of you hanging out with us on this Friday.

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here on this Friday and as I say that guys say a lot of things when they are in front of the

camera especially when yes we do too five days a week guys say things and you're like, huh, okay, he feels good about that.

Or maybe he doesn't like that particular thing.

Well, that's what we're going to start here today with Vijay Edgecombe.

Kyle talking about how he feels about his basketball team.

Now, 30 and 24, 54 games games in six place in the eastern conference

and with 28 games remaining when they do get back after the all-star break game one on

Thursday against the Atlanta Hawks at home he feels pretty good about their chances in the

Eastern Conference and while we have talked a lot about how they match up against certain teams,

if they're fully healthy, et cetera, et cetera, going on, a player, a young player, saying this

ahead of the Rising Stars Challenge tonight, Vijay Edgecombe, pretty confident about his team's

chances in the east.

We already have a mute to start the show, baby.

Let's go.

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