On today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I spend a couple of minutes talking about the

conference call Elton Brand had with reporters on Tuesday. We then spend the rest of the podcast

talking about Rich's article in oral history of the Alan Iverson practice press conference.

In this podcast, we talk most about Rich's process and writing the article,

and what information he found out, and paint the picture of everything that went in

and making that press conference go off the rails the way that it did.

This podcast is more of a companion piece for the article, and you still should absolutely

read the article itself, which will have quotes from many of the people that were

there and that witnessed it firsthand, from Billy King and Larry Brown to reporters like Ashley Fox,

Tom Moore, D-Ly-Lynum, and many more. If you're not already an athletic subscriber,

you can head on over to Theathletic.com slash Sixers Beat, where you can find a discount code

and which will let them know you came from us.

Also, feel free to contact Rich and I directly, whether that's to rant or submit a mailbag question,

and you can do that by sending an email to podcast at sixersbeat.com.

Once again, that's podcast at sixersbeat.com.

And without further ado, enjoy the show. All right. Welcome, everybody. This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, a part of The Athletics Podcast Network real quick.

If you can, head on over to Theathletic.com slash Sixers Beat.

You can get a discount on a subscription, read all of our written content, including a pretty special article this week, which we will get to in a second.

How you doing, Rich?

I'm good, man.

We finally heard a member of the Sixers officially speak today.

I was joking.

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