in today's episode of the Sixers Beat, Rich and I go over the struggles Ben Simmons

has had here over the last couple of games.

What could be holding him back?

The comments Stock Rivers made about his role in player personnel decisions and the Sixers'

upcoming schedule, including the next two games against the Boston Celtics.

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Enjoy the podcast. All right, welcome everybody.

This is Derek Bodner, joined as always by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

Hey, Don't Rich.

I'm okay, man, you know. Not a lot going on in the world right now. No, especially not when you have that one game get postponed. Oh, you, you meant that sarcastically, didn't you? Oh, yeah. There's an inauguration going on. Yeah, no, there is. I was thinking deadlocked on the Sixers who haven't played since Saturday because they had two days off and then one game postponed. But yeah, there's one or two things going on in the real world, for sure. For sure. Yeah. As far as our world, though, the Sixers, there hasn't been a lot. They got their game canceled. So now we can stop saying the NBA doesn't cancel Sixers games.

And it was, I shouldn't say it was funny.

It was odd that they got their game canceled in what really felt like a preventative measure.

And good on them too. Because this didn't affect their games this week.

You know, they wanted to make sure, because of the Memphis player who had it, the Sixers

just didn't catch it.

But the answer to that is no.

And it looks like we're full speed ahead for these Celtics games.

Yeah.

Well, not only full speed ahead, Seth Curry has been cleared.

He's not on the injury report, at least, anymore. I think the only two people on the injury report still are Vincent Poillet and

there's one more. Mike Scott. Mike Scott, correct, with a real old school injury, a knee injury.

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