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Rolling along a Thursday edition of Beeson by the Books, thanks for making us a part of your morning.

Jetsa Lewis alongside the Moose, Mark Malusis.

We are informed that Super Dave Ross has made his way back to the state of Tennessee from Virginia Beach, enjoying his final few days off. Super Dave will be back on Monday. On Monday, we will have already a couple of game ones of every playoff series in the bank. Before that, we got to find out who those game ones will be over the weekend.

That's where we start this hour of highlights and headlines.

Help your bottom line with today's highlights and headlines.

Bean Townbound, that is where the 76ers will be headed on Sunday as they defeat the Orlando Magic 109-97 in the Eastern Conference 7-8 matchup in the playing tournament.

This one kind of close early and then Philly pulled away late, a 12 point victory, easily covering the

one and a half point spread.

Total does stay under quite easily 223 to half of the closing total there.

So Mark, we've got our 27 matchup.

And if you're looking for the quote unquote blue bloods of the NBA, all the league office thrilled to have the Celtics and the Sixers matching up on Sunday afternoon. Yeah, I mean, they got to be thrilled also, Jensen, by the first four games we've seen in this playing tournament. And we're going to get, you know, two more on Friday night from what you've seen on the whole, listen to Orlando and Philadelphia, you're not going to be sending it to the Basketball Hall of Fame up there in Massachusetts. I mean, it wasn't that kind of a caliber of a game. But give Philadelphia a ton of credit and they march on. And yes, in that opening round, you'll get them against the Boston Celtics. And Maxie's brilliant. We know that Edgecombe has had a wonderful rookie year when you're looking at the Philadelphia 76ers.

Paul George, obviously the Embedicid appendicit throws a huge monkey wrench into it.

And as you mentioned, an hour number one, Jensen, you know, he's still out indefinitely.

We'll see if Joel Embed and if Philadelphia is still around potentially.

But, you know, put that on the outside looking in. And Embed has dealt with a numerous amount of injuries over the course

of his career. But this is what you want, right? I mean, so you get two great basketball cities. You

get Philadelphia. You get Boston. And hopefully the 76ers can make it an interesting series here moving

forward.

Yep, Celtics are laying 12 and a half.

That's the opening number here for Sunday's game one at the Garden against the Sixers total of 214. With the defeat, the Orlando Magic now will play tomorrow night against the Charlotte Hornets.

Winner take all in this one.

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