It's the middle of July, and we get a huge Joel and Bede story from ESPN, and that is what is going to drive the show on this Wednesday.

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givens president of basketball operations brie is with us all of you already in the chat as we deep

dive into this espn piece about joel and bead a wide ranging piece from ESPN about Juel and Bede.

And it was something.

So we're going to get into it all here on this afternoon.

We'll talk a little bit about Vijay Edgecombe's return to Summer League on Tuesday night a little bit later in the show.

But Dothune Akintois really has our attention of what he

has written. And that based on the timeline, certainly seems like it took a while to put this

all together to get a full picture here. As by the length of the story, I would say so. So all of you have thoughts in the chat, and we will read along with you, and as best as we can, as we give our thoughts on what we came away with in this story.

Because, Kyle, this one was, again, like we said, came out of nowhere.

And as it dropped a little bit earlier today,

I think all of us collectively were just simply locked in on reading this story because

of how detailed it was.

Certainly you want to know about his injury as to where he is right now, what his thought

process was after playing only 19 games during this past campaign that had them

with the 24 and 58 record, one of the worst in franchise history.

And this offseason, as we talked about the draft being so important, what they did with

last summer's acquisitions and how you did not have as much movement this summer, we all know it

drives the success of the Sixers on the back of Joelle Embed. So as much as we talk about,

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