Speaker 1: This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network
Speaker 1: search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pods. Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid has been fantastic, But just how fantastic when he
Speaker 1: is engaged and focused and locked in and in shape
Speaker 1: and healthy and all those things. Is there any reason
Speaker 1: this guy can't be the best player in the league.
Speaker 1: There's no reason he couldn't be an MVP. Yep, that's her,
Speaker 1: the one and only Hall of Famer Doris Burke. What
Speaker 1: about her thoughts on the rest of the team. You
Speaker 1: love all the pieces they've put together, truly, and I'm
Speaker 1: intrigued to see where it goes. I'm bullish on the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Where that goes? Who knows. ESPN's Doris Burke joins us
Speaker 1: for this week's Friday Deep Dive. It is the weekly
Speaker 1: Friday Deep Dive here on the broadcast. I'm Brian Seltzer.
Speaker 1: Great to be with you, Lauren Rosen and you Divine Gibbons.
Speaker 1: But with all due respect the two of you and
Speaker 1: you're great people. It is really really, really, really really
Speaker 1: great to welcome in the one and only Doris Burke
Speaker 1: from ESPN. She and Mike Green had to call Wednesday
Speaker 1: night at the Center. They're gonna be back at it
Speaker 1: again on Friday at seven thirty when the two game
Speaker 1: series wraps up. Doris got a lot to get into
Speaker 1: big picture stuff surrounding the seventy sixers, But first we
Speaker 1: got to react to what we saw on Wednesday. Now
Speaker 1: dominant performance with forty two points, ten redounds day outscore
Speaker 1: the Celtics thirty one seventeen in the fourth quarter, and
Speaker 1: now they improved to ten and five. Joel and b
Speaker 1: Doris off the chart stuff in the Sixers win. What
Speaker 1: level do you think he's playing at right now? Yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: I said to Mike Breen, I said, listen to peace
Speaker 1: when he is engaged and focused and locked in and
Speaker 1: in shape and healthy and all those things. Is there
Speaker 1: any reason this guy can't be the best player in
Speaker 1: the league. And you know we both at the same response,
Speaker 1: there is, there's no reason he couldn't be an MDP
Speaker 1: best player in the league. I mean, look a look
Speaker 1: at the way he dominated last night. On every touch
Speaker 1: you felt like he was going to score or his
Speaker 1: past was going to lead to a score. So it's
Speaker 1: fun to watch him when he's when he's on the
Speaker 1: floor and healthy and engaged. I just he's one of
Speaker 1: the most entertaining players, physically punishing yet unbelievably light feet,
Speaker 1: feathery touch. What a pleasure, What a pleasure to watch
Speaker 1: him like that and endorsed. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people when you say all of those things about him,
Speaker 1: be that's the sentiment for a lot of sixer fans.
Speaker 1: Of course, So when you look at him and he's
Speaker 1: putting all those things together right now in the games
Speaker 1: that he has played, what does it take for a
Speaker 1: player who's on the cusp of that MVP consideration to
Speaker 1: really take it to that next level? Yeah? You know
Speaker 1: what we admire I think about professional athletes who is
Speaker 1: they're capable of excellence, But maybe the most elusive of
Speaker 1: all things in life is sustained excellence, sustained greatness. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a price to be paid, and you guys know this.
Speaker 1: There are so many tremendous athletes in the NBA and
Speaker 1: tremendously good players. But what separates the good from the great?
Speaker 1: Is it more mental or physical? A combination of both?
Speaker 1: Is it the interior drive and motivation? You know? And
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued by Joel and the fact that he said
Speaker 1: he wants to be Defensive Player of the Year, and
Speaker 1: the fact that you know he was I don't I
Speaker 1: don't want to put words in his mouth. I don't
Speaker 1: remember exactly what he said, annoyed, angry, whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be. Not being named all NBA caught his attention
Speaker 1: and you know, at least his motivation. But you know,
Speaker 1: when I think about Lebron James in particular, knowing that
Speaker 1: it feels like it's a twenty four to seven cycle
Speaker 1: for Lebron. You know, he plans out his year, he
Speaker 1: maps his year, He spend significant amount of money, as
Speaker 1: Joel is now committed to to get that nutritionist, and
Speaker 1: you know all the things that go into it. Greatness
Speaker 1: comes at a price, and you got to pay that price.
Speaker 1: Dori's been looking around the roster. Tobias Harris came out
Speaker 1: really strong last night, and I know Joel told you
Speaker 1: guys that he thinks that Tobias should be an All
Speaker 1: Star this year. What have your impressions been of Tobias?
Speaker 1: Does he look different to you this year? Yeah? You
Speaker 1: know what, I thought, you saw the best of Tobias
Speaker 1: last night. Right if there was a mismatch he could
Speaker 1: take that player down to the post and sort of
Speaker 1: punish them on the box. You know, I've read sort
Speaker 1: of the comments that Doc is the Tobias Whisperer, that is,
Speaker 1: shooting percentage under Doc Rivers from from range is better.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. I feel like the Sixers
Speaker 1: fit better. You know, Joel has alluded to this on
Speaker 1: a number of occasions. Right when I think about Joel's comfortability,
Speaker 1: I think about the first couple of years JJ Reddick
Speaker 1: and how they would so often go to that two
Speaker 1: man game to start the game because it got both
Speaker 1: men in the flow and once you had to contend
Speaker 1: with them. Now you're going to get Ben going downhill
Speaker 1: on you, or offensive rebound putback dunk. You know, I
Speaker 1: like Tobias. He's always been the consummate professional, easy for
Speaker 1: us to deal with, and there's so much you've got
Speaker 1: to contend with its size at skill. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: he was tremendous, Absolutely tremendous. Maybe Doc is the Tobias
Speaker 1: whisper So how did we arrive at this point where
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers is coaching the Philadelphia seventy sixers, And I
Speaker 1: think the last time we saw the seventy Sixers go
Speaker 1: up against the Boston Celtics in a meaningful situation to us.
Speaker 1: I know you had that series down in the bubble
Speaker 1: in the first round, and I think everyone at that
Speaker 1: point in time could tell that there was change coming
Speaker 1: for the seventy Sixers. If I'm the Sixers, you didn't
Speaker 1: arrive at this place this season. I think you have
Speaker 1: to look at your organization from top down. So now
Speaker 1: that we're here and we talk about the coaching change, first,
Speaker 1: can you kind of walk us through your reaction to
Speaker 1: first Doc parting ways with the Clippers and then how
Speaker 1: swiftly it came together with him in the seventy six Ers. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting. I've often listened and heard with
Speaker 1: curiosity this theory that coach and it used to be
Speaker 1: I think more adhered to where organizations believe that coaches
Speaker 1: had a certain window of time within which the players
Speaker 1: were listening to them, and then you know that that
Speaker 1: window you paid attention to it. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's the case. I really thought we might
Speaker 1: have acquired a new colleague when Doc left the Clippers.
Speaker 1: I really did, and I've worked with Doc. Believe it
Speaker 1: or not, way back when when he was between Orlando
Speaker 1: and Boston. He worked with us for that year, and
Speaker 1: there's a great story I could tell you if you
Speaker 1: want me to after I answer this question. But you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how we arrived at the spot. I
Speaker 1: did think Doc would come and at least take some time.
Speaker 1: He's been coaching for a long time. He's been under
Speaker 1: that pressure in the spotlight, although he wears it so easily.
Speaker 1: He wears the mantle of head coach so easily, you know.
Speaker 1: And I saw Seth Curry's comments. He's honest with us.
Speaker 1: He tells us the truth whether we want to hear
Speaker 1: it or not. And there's there's an authenticity and a
Speaker 1: humility about Doc that I find a feeling. So I'm
Speaker 1: always intrigued by how these people navigate to their spots.
Speaker 1: But I think that the Sexer's got a tremendous coach
Speaker 1: in Doc Rivers. We got to hear what that story is. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: so the year Doc works with us, I am very
Speaker 1: new to the project. I'm strictly sideline. I'm still doing
Speaker 1: women's college, men's college. I'm a reporter on Dick Vitals.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is going back a while, but Doc
Speaker 1: comes on board, and I'm new. This is like within
Speaker 1: I don't know how many of my first whatever games
Speaker 1: on the NBA project for ESPN. And you know how
Speaker 1: travel goes, guys. So Mike Breen is with Doc and
Speaker 1: I and I'm the sideline and we've got to get
Speaker 1: from our hotel to wherever the Lakers are staying. And
Speaker 1: Phil Jackson is our scheduled interview that morning, and I
Speaker 1: can't I won't remember it verbatim, but Doc has on
Speaker 1: occasion brought this up to me over the years. So Doc,
Speaker 1: we're in the car on the way, you know, from
Speaker 1: one hotel to the other, and Mike Breen is not landed.
Speaker 1: He's called the Knicks game the night before, can't get in.
Speaker 1: Doc turns to me and says, all right to ours,
Speaker 1: you're going to interview Phil Jackson. And I panic. I'm like, what,
Speaker 1: So now you're rattling through your head. I'm new to
Speaker 1: the project. I'm going to interview Phil Jackson. Phil comes
Speaker 1: in the room. John Black is the PR director and
Speaker 1: where you know, it's always hurry up and wait for
Speaker 1: the players or the coaches into this ballroom in a hotel,
Speaker 1: comes you know, comes coach, and he sits down, and
Speaker 1: you know how massive a guy Phil Jackson is. His
Speaker 1: shoulders are so wide he's, however tall he is. I'm terrified.
Speaker 1: My heart is pounding. And he basically kind of unfolds
Speaker 1: himself in the chair and finally looks up and we
Speaker 1: meet eye to eye. After John Black and said, hey,
Speaker 1: this is Doris. She's going to ask you a few questions.
Speaker 1: But before I could get to that line, Phil Jackson
Speaker 1: says something along the lines of, now, Doris, tell me,
Speaker 1: why are you sitting in that chair asking me questions
Speaker 1: or something along those lines, and I'm stunned, but I said, well, coach,
Speaker 1: or maybe he might as it something like what qualifies
Speaker 1: you or how did you get there? I said, well, well,
Speaker 1: Coach Jackson, I've played and I've coached the game, I said,
Speaker 1: but I don't think either one of those is a
Speaker 1: prerequisite for the job I'm about to do. I said,
Speaker 1: we're ready to go, and he was like yep. And
Speaker 1: Doc on a Asian because we walked out of there,
Speaker 1: my brain still wasn't there. And Doc said, boy, I'm
Speaker 1: glad you handled that, because I didn't know which way
Speaker 1: to go that I will never forget that. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: knowing Doc as well as you do, and almost a
Speaker 1: little maybe being coached by him or coached into doing
Speaker 1: things by him, what do you think Doc brings to
Speaker 1: this team that can make him work so well with
Speaker 1: this group at this time. Well, I think, first and foremost,
Speaker 1: you know who he is as a man. You know,
Speaker 1: um there, as I said, there's a level of humility,
Speaker 1: and listen, he's coaching young African American men, not all obviously,
Speaker 1: but a good percentage of the league. And I you know,
Speaker 1: I think his experiences as a young man. You know,
Speaker 1: he talks off and I believe his father was a
Speaker 1: police officer growing up in Chicago. Mike Breen and I
Speaker 1: were touching based on not a little bit last night
Speaker 1: before the game. He was a player and a long
Speaker 1: time player in the league. So I think there are
Speaker 1: so many things about Doc Rivers that are relatable to
Speaker 1: the current player. You know, I think there's automatic equity
Speaker 1: when you've played and played in the league and then
Speaker 1: coached a team to an NBA championship, had the success
Speaker 1: Doc has had. I think he's fourth all time and
Speaker 1: wins for the Boston Celtics, one of the most historic
Speaker 1: organizations in the entire NBA. And so I think it's
Speaker 1: mostly due to character. You know, Doc is a truth teller.
Speaker 1: He'll he'll and I don't you know when he says
Speaker 1: things that maybe critique players. I've never had the sense
Speaker 1: that he it's personal. You know, he knows what success requires.
Speaker 1: In the NBA. It's never personal with Doc. It's always like,
Speaker 1: this is what's going to make you successful. This is
Speaker 1: a weakness, this is a strength. Let's just get to
Speaker 1: the facts. Let's just look one another eye to eye
Speaker 1: and deal with truth. And so I think it's many things,
Speaker 1: but I would say characters most of all. More coming
Speaker 1: up with Doris in a moment, I want to take
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Speaker 1: for you. This Philadelphia seventy Sixers, according to our Adrian Morejanowski,
Speaker 1: are an advanced talks on a deal to hire former
Speaker 1: Rockets GM Darryl Moorey to oversee the franchises basketball operations.
Speaker 1: A deal dors you have to now focus on the
Speaker 1: organization shifting another way and the other shoe drops via Houston. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so it's first doc and then you have via
Speaker 1: Houston Darryl Moorey. How much of a difference is it
Speaker 1: having someone like Darryl Moorey coming into your front office
Speaker 1: and how does that help and what does that do
Speaker 1: to make your franchise is what it is? Yeah, do
Speaker 1: you know that My first real I don't want to
Speaker 1: say exposure, but something that first caught my attention was
Speaker 1: Jeffan Gundy coaching the Houston Rockets and sort of having
Speaker 1: Darrell's influence affect his coaching. You know, Doc Darrel was
Speaker 1: presenting certain facts about the evolution of the game and
Speaker 1: you know, all the things that we know, you know,
Speaker 1: Darrel has emphasized over the year years. UM. And so
Speaker 1: obviously I have so much respect for Jeff and you
Speaker 1: know who he is and has been both as a
Speaker 1: coach and as a broadcaster and as a friend to
Speaker 1: me personally. UM, And so I remember that catching my ear, like, wow,
Speaker 1: Jeff really respects this guy. You know, He's allowing Darrell's
Speaker 1: thoughts to sort of influence and they were working together.
Speaker 1: So that was the first thing that caught my attention.
Speaker 1: The second thing that catches your attention is I, you know, UM,
Speaker 1: one of you know, some of the first championships I
Speaker 1: was involved in, UM was Oklahoma City's run to the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals and James was a sixth man there. So
Speaker 1: watching James move to to Houston, watch in his game evolve,
Speaker 1: watching Daryl try to maximize what he had there really
Speaker 1: intrigued me. And so knowing Darryl's history and the organizations
Speaker 1: he had been a part of and the things he
Speaker 1: had built, it's important, right. I think one thing that's
Speaker 1: that's maybe surprising to me and one thing that I've
Speaker 1: appreciated as I've tried to work NBA drafts is how
Speaker 1: difficult the job of the general manager or the president
Speaker 1: of basketball operations. How difficult that job is trying to
Speaker 1: get all the right pieces understanding how team mechanics work. Philosophically,
Speaker 1: are you fitting you know, your coaching staff with the
Speaker 1: players that you have. There's so much that goes into
Speaker 1: winning in the NBA, including luck, right, think about the
Speaker 1: hamstring injury of Chris Paul when Daryl Moray was the
Speaker 1: head of the Houston I mean they've got golden stayed
Speaker 1: on the ropes. I mean on the ropes, and that's
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, a little bit of luck and
Speaker 1: all the things that went to winning. But but certainly
Speaker 1: Darrel one of the most respected leaders in the league,
Speaker 1: in terms of just building an organization that can win.
Speaker 1: So you love all the pieces they put together, truly,
Speaker 1: and I'm intrigued to see where it goes. I said
Speaker 1: it on Sports Center last night. I'm bullish on the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Where that goes? Who knows. You can't have a conversation
Speaker 1: Doris about the seventy Sixers without obviously bringing up Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons sides. There's Ben Simmons defense leaving the offense just
Speaker 1: tremendous length, excellent. You know, we talk about vision and
Speaker 1: instincts offensially, his vision and instance, his strength with this size,
Speaker 1: everything it contributed simon being so business VESI it seems
Speaker 1: like so often people tend to focus on what Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons isn't rather than what he is. Yeah, in your mind,
Speaker 1: what does Ben Simmons need to be for the Sixers
Speaker 1: this season if the wants to achieve its goals? Now,
Speaker 1: it's a great question, because I don't know that I've
Speaker 1: ever seen a player of his caliber absorb such skepticism. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be honest with you and say, last
Speaker 1: night he was the topic of conversation for a decent
Speaker 1: stretch of time for Mike and I because we don't
Speaker 1: believe he's yet at his best level this year, which
Speaker 1: made be a good thing and probably is a good thing, right.
Speaker 1: And but one thing you cannot overstate is Ben's influence
Speaker 1: on the game in incredibly impactful ways. And I would
Speaker 1: start on the defensive end of the floor. To me,
Speaker 1: the Sixers, because of what they're up against with Brooklyn
Speaker 1: and Milwaukee, they better be defined by what they do
Speaker 1: on the defensive end of the floor. You've got two
Speaker 1: individual pieces that are truly, in my opinion, you know,
Speaker 1: again going back to focus and locked in and all
Speaker 1: those things to the best of their position. Right, what
Speaker 1: are opponents shooting in the pain? I believe the number
Speaker 1: of going into the other night's game was forty five
Speaker 1: at the rim, maybe fifty percent. That's Joe LMB and
Speaker 1: so he can negate a lot of things. And I
Speaker 1: know last year in researching games for the Bubble, the
Speaker 1: number of All Stars that Ben guarded over the course
Speaker 1: of the season was truly a remarkable thing. So I
Speaker 1: just you cannot overstate Ben's strength and really, in a pinch,
Speaker 1: he could guard the five spot. He's got the kind
Speaker 1: of strength and size necessary you can put him interchangeably
Speaker 1: one through four. In this day and age, with the
Speaker 1: level of ability with the shot making, you've got to
Speaker 1: have pieces like that. So you know what he has
Speaker 1: to be. I think he has to be the best
Speaker 1: version of himself, which is dominate with his size, his strength,
Speaker 1: his lateral quickness. He can swallow guys up. He's got
Speaker 1: to continue to do that. He's got to be versatile
Speaker 1: on the defense end and then absorb big time assignments
Speaker 1: night by night, but most importantly in the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: then play to his strengths. Get downhill. Continue. I know
Speaker 1: he's taken five threes. Continue. Mike Green and I watched
Speaker 1: this last night. I was so thankful for Mike and
Speaker 1: forgive me for going on and on. I was so
Speaker 1: thankful to Mike Green for drawing my attention to this work.
Speaker 1: Coming back out of the second half, and Ben is
Speaker 1: in the far corner just shooting three after three and
Speaker 1: he made nine of ten and nine to ten. So
Speaker 1: whenever he's comfortable to get to that aspect of his game,
Speaker 1: do it. But for now, just keep maximizing what he is,
Speaker 1: and that's a guy who's downhill, super problematic and transition.
Speaker 1: And the thing is guys, Doc is still learning, right,
Speaker 1: you guys have been The Sixers have been impacted like
Speaker 1: every other team by this pandemic. The name of the
Speaker 1: game is going to be patients and flexibility for these teams.
Speaker 1: And I mean that in roster construction, in in postponements,
Speaker 1: in the mental fatigue that it is inevitably going to come.
Speaker 1: We're all exhausted to this pandemic. We've all had it
Speaker 1: affect our jobs. You know, this is going to be
Speaker 1: an endurance chest for every team. And I just think
Speaker 1: we're at the very formative stages of what the Sixers
Speaker 1: will be. Is Ben where he should? You know? He is? Ben?
Speaker 1: Where he will be in April, May and June? No,
Speaker 1: And I can't you know, I'm intrigued to see what
Speaker 1: changes over the course of the year. We'll wrap things
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Speaker 1: I'm told I have the privilege of the last question.
Speaker 1: And We've talked about a lot of the pieces off
Speaker 1: court of this team, and I've been lucky enough to
Speaker 1: be at all the home games this year, and I've
Speaker 1: noticed that this team's chemistry feels like it's really coming
Speaker 1: together rather quickly, especially considering it's such a new group
Speaker 1: together Tobias and Joel singing together pregame, just little things
Speaker 1: like that. I'm wondering how much you notice that stuff
Speaker 1: and how important you think those intangible chemistry type things
Speaker 1: can be for a new team. Well, that's interesting that
Speaker 1: you say that, because I was just having this discussion
Speaker 1: on another Zoom call earlier today. This is the thing
Speaker 1: I'm missing the most, to be perfectly honest with you,
Speaker 1: being that far off the floor, being unable to in
Speaker 1: the hour before the game have a quick conversation with
Speaker 1: a player here and there, to be face to face,
Speaker 1: to have an opportunity to bump into an assistant coach.
Speaker 1: That's a huge part of my job. To be perfectly
Speaker 1: honest with you. I one of the things I always
Speaker 1: say is there is a difference in preparation for my games.
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of NBA basketball. It is a
Speaker 1: different thing entirely to watch it on television and be
Speaker 1: there with my notepad and taking notes and figuring stuff
Speaker 1: out than it is for me to be on the
Speaker 1: floor level and watching teammates, a teammate interaction or teammate
Speaker 1: to coach interaction, being in that locker room and those
Speaker 1: moments I call them stealing moments, those two or three
Speaker 1: minutes with those people is invaluable. So I have to
Speaker 1: be honest with you. I have less of a handle
Speaker 1: on that aspect than I ever have, And it's the
Speaker 1: thing I really missed the most, and I would tell
Speaker 1: you my colleagues I know feel the same. We missed
Speaker 1: that interaction. Well, Doris, we can't thank you enough for
Speaker 1: spending some time with us and allowing us to pick
Speaker 1: your point guard mine and especially when it comes to
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, and we can't wait to hear everything from
Speaker 1: you tonight for the sixer Celtics game. Thank you so much. Oh,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. What a pleasure, what a privilege
Speaker 1: having Doris Burke on for a few minutes to drop
Speaker 1: a little knowledge, drop a little wisdom, anything in particular
Speaker 1: that you guys took away from that that you want
Speaker 1: to react to. Well, for me, I really liked how
Speaker 1: she explained the Ben Simmons angle of it all where
Speaker 1: he affects the game so much, and we often talk
Speaker 1: about as you ask the question, so the things that
Speaker 1: we focus on that he doesn't do versus the things
Speaker 1: that he does, and as we look at things right now,
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers has pointed out plenty of all the things
Speaker 1: that he does defensively to have an impact on the game.
Speaker 1: So for DRIs to break that part of it down
Speaker 1: be himself offensively when he's playing downhill and being able
Speaker 1: to use his size and pick his spots where he
Speaker 1: needs to be him in order to help the team out.
Speaker 1: I think we pretty much know we see it from
Speaker 1: time to time when he's ready to do it, when
Speaker 1: he's not really to do it. And that was probably
Speaker 1: my favorite part of what Doris's explained as a point
Speaker 1: guard herself, looking at things from a point guard perspective
Speaker 1: of how Ben Simmons be at all six ten of
Speaker 1: them versus her size, no disrespect guard, you know that
Speaker 1: was I thought that explanation was perfect, and I think
Speaker 1: real quick we saw that kind of dynamic begin to
Speaker 1: take place the first few weeks the season before the Sixers.
Speaker 1: That's not really anything to laugh about. Lost half the roster,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, especially on the offensive end, with the scoring
Speaker 1: taking a step back a bit, just trying to find
Speaker 1: the right areas and ways in which he could be
Speaker 1: the most effective version of himself. So I agreed to Vin.
Speaker 1: I thought they were really good points. Lauren, what about you?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not breaking any news to say that
Speaker 1: Doris is phenomenal at her job, but it's really cool
Speaker 1: to hear her talk about the Sixers with such specificity
Speaker 1: that the three of us can learn something from her.
Speaker 1: And she's covering the other twenty nine teams as well,
Speaker 1: and I just really appreciate the care that she puts
Speaker 1: into her craft. It's awesome to hear her engage with
Speaker 1: us about things that are important to us on a
Speaker 1: day to day basis because we're here in Philly and
Speaker 1: we're with the team, but to hear her really get
Speaker 1: into the nitty gritty with us about just one of
Speaker 1: thirty for her I just think is so special and
Speaker 1: I got to give all the props to the woman
Speaker 1: who I think is the greatest of all time. Amen
Speaker 1: to that. Well, we know we can always count on
Speaker 1: having a deep dive on Fridays with one person whose
Speaker 1: first letter of their first name because of the day,
Speaker 1: that of course is divine but great adding another d
Speaker 1: first name person in Doris Burke, who's just the best
Speaker 1: this week, so we thank her for the time, guys,
Speaker 1: great as always, got another big one against the Celtics
Speaker 1: on Friday night, and then when next we talk next Friday,
Speaker 1: it'll be an opportunity to react to the Lakers game
Speaker 1: at the Center on Wednesday and look ahead to a
Speaker 1: road trip that begins against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Until then,
Speaker 1: God b