Speaker 1: This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network
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Speaker 1: the NBA season, when demands on players are ultra intense
Speaker 1: and personal times in a minimum, Tobias Harris still finds
Speaker 1: some way to do a lot community outreach, yoga, mindfulness,
Speaker 1: and of course we're reading Knowledge is Power. That's just
Speaker 1: been a real key for me in my life in quarantine.
Speaker 1: The pace of life is obviously much slower. Time is
Speaker 1: not in his short supply. So what's har us up
Speaker 1: to these days? Just using the time to really reflect,
Speaker 1: figure out some new hobbies, stay in the best shape
Speaker 1: that I can with the resources that I have, check
Speaker 1: in with other people, check in with family, try to
Speaker 1: stay busy. But for as much as Harris seems to
Speaker 1: be keeping himself occupied during the hiatus, he wants to
Speaker 1: get back to doing what he's paid to do. On
Speaker 1: the heels of making a major contract over the summer
Speaker 1: and performing well this season, the veteran feels the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers have unfair business. For me, it's the place to win,
Speaker 1: is to compete, just to have that competitive nature to
Speaker 1: do a for our city, in our fans. This is
Speaker 1: Posted Up with Tobias Harris. Welcome to the latest installment
Speaker 1: of Posted Up, presented by Caesar's Online, a mini cast
Speaker 1: series here on the broadcast checking in on the seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers during the hiatus. I'm Brian Seltzer, bringing you
Speaker 1: new episodes each week. I'll be honest and this isn't
Speaker 1: meant to disrespect or disparage anyone else on the team.
Speaker 1: Of all the seventy sixers players, one of the guys
Speaker 1: who I was really interested in hearing from in Isolation
Speaker 1: was Tobias Harris. I mean, this is the guy who, somehow,
Speaker 1: amidst the non stopped grind of the season, manages to
Speaker 1: find inner peace achieve the all enviable state of balance.
Speaker 1: He's out and about giving back, like in December when
Speaker 1: he stopped by the Bethune School in North Philadelphia to
Speaker 1: eat the elementary students. You guys want to sing the
Speaker 1: song again. I love my Red Shirts. I Love my
Speaker 1: Red Shirts. He also makes a point of staying health
Speaker 1: in mind, body and spirit. But for as well rounded
Speaker 1: a person as Harris is, whooping is his unquestioned forte
Speaker 1: Tobias nine to shoot. He tried for three It's a
Speaker 1: year good. Thirty two points for Tobias Harris and a
Speaker 1: clutch tray from the top Harris three to shoot Paul
Speaker 1: Away in don tigantic hoop for Debias Harris. Look attack
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris with a purpose. When you look back at
Speaker 1: Harris's line this season, he's put himself among slight company.
Speaker 1: The twenty seven year old is one of just four
Speaker 1: players averaging at least nineteen points and six and a
Speaker 1: half rebounds while shooting better than forty seven percent from
Speaker 1: the field and thirty six percent from three. He's the
Speaker 1: only wing in the bunch. In his nine seasons as
Speaker 1: a pro, har had never been more efficient passing the
Speaker 1: ball than he was before the break, and his three
Speaker 1: point zero net rating is a career high. He's also
Speaker 1: been poleased with his defense, which was a major focal
Speaker 1: point entering the year. Honestly, was just an area to
Speaker 1: enhance my focus on, to give more of a sold
Speaker 1: out effort to If there's one takeaway you can pull
Speaker 1: from the contract Harris signed with the seventy six ers
Speaker 1: last summer, it's that hard work has its rewards. Over
Speaker 1: the years, the Long Island native has added more and
Speaker 1: more to his game each season, to the point where
Speaker 1: he's now in conversations for All Star Games and a
Speaker 1: roll with Team USA. But teams don't make a commitment
Speaker 1: like the one the Sixers made to Harris on the
Speaker 1: first day of free agency. No less if that's all
Speaker 1: they're getting. Harris is much more than an elite rising
Speaker 1: star in the prime of his career. He's a model
Speaker 1: citizen and an essential internal unifier within the seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers locker room. That combination of talent and leadership isn't
Speaker 1: always right for the picking, which brings us to an
Speaker 1: activity that Harris is focused on during the NBA suspension.
Speaker 1: He's keeping his teammates connected. It's checking in with guys
Speaker 1: and communicating, making sure everybody is in good you know,
Speaker 1: in a good place. You know, nobody really understands what's
Speaker 1: fully going to happen going forward, but still just to
Speaker 1: have your mindset that we're going to play basketball. I
Speaker 1: think it's key. Like any good n Harris is paying
Speaker 1: particularly close attention to how the Sixers younger players are
Speaker 1: holding them. I reached out to like Zaire, you know, Mario,
Speaker 1: so just trying to really make sure they're good, make
Speaker 1: sure they're in good spirits and family is good. So
Speaker 1: just on facetide with furt the other day because I've
Speaker 1: seen this bitch of you look real sadas I had
Speaker 1: to call for But everybody's been in good communication, whether
Speaker 1: it's the group tech Instagram and you're not truly communicating
Speaker 1: in quarantine unless you're on zoom am I right, and
Speaker 1: the Sixers are doing just that, holding calls for the
Speaker 1: entire team and also smaller groups. By multiple accounts. Harris
Speaker 1: is one of the ringleaders. Tobias usually initiates it with
Speaker 1: some type of meme or something type of like cheesy
Speaker 1: little joke and something like that and gets everybody's going,
Speaker 1: that was Kyle O'Quinn. Here's matis style. Person most likely
Speaker 1: to un new to talk is Tobias. He's un meeting
Speaker 1: himself constantly. I just try to engage a little bit,
Speaker 1: make sure everybody's doing it's it's weird when you got
Speaker 1: like you're looking at a computer and seeing like fifteen people.
Speaker 1: So you know, sometimes people may not want to be
Speaker 1: the first one to speak, but I'm usually the person
Speaker 1: to come out and say something like great ice, really,
Speaker 1: but really this isn't about memes. As much as it
Speaker 1: is preserving meaningful relationships. An NBA season, after all, is
Speaker 1: fleeting after every year, roster turnover is essentially guaranteed, even
Speaker 1: if it's only subtle. A team looking the same from
Speaker 1: one season to the next is virtually unheard of. Harris
Speaker 1: depicts this year's iteration of the Sixers as a tight
Speaker 1: knit group. It's weird because I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't understand, like, we spend more time with each
Speaker 1: other and we do like our family. So after like
Speaker 1: day four, for me, I was like, dang with my
Speaker 1: brothers and you know what that means. That's how I
Speaker 1: was like feeling. But I think, you know, just being
Speaker 1: able to check in make sure everybody's doing good. That's
Speaker 1: kind of like what everybody's been doing and what I've
Speaker 1: been doing too. As you'd expect to, Bias is doing
Speaker 1: plenty beyond zoom. Here's what a typical day in isolation
Speaker 1: looks like for Harris. Coming down to my office, turn
Speaker 1: the TV on. I watched like What's going on CNN
Speaker 1: and whatnot, Sit back, I do a little bit of meditation.
Speaker 1: In the mornings, I eat breakfast and I get ready
Speaker 1: to work out. I work out every day, but it
Speaker 1: just takes me a little bit longer to workout. So
Speaker 1: I give myself zoned in and then from them, try
Speaker 1: to get into a book, read something, and you know,
Speaker 1: watching some TV, watching some shows, finished Ozarks, which watching
Speaker 1: Money Highs and as the nights I restarted the Wire.
Speaker 1: So I mean, that's been really it. I still try
Speaker 1: to get out, take like some walks, a little bit
Speaker 1: quick walks, make sure that nobody row was not in
Speaker 1: and out, just to get some air. Every now and then,
Speaker 1: Harris also takes a drive. I ain't going to line.
Speaker 1: I was in my car the other day. I just
Speaker 1: took a ride. And where did he end up going?
Speaker 1: I was riding by the practice facility. I ain't goin,
Speaker 1: but I was like, man, I just I just missed playing.
Speaker 1: And that's the real thing, that is how much the
Speaker 1: game meets to Harris. He's a renaissance man for sure,
Speaker 1: and can probably find more ways to fill his days
Speaker 1: than most. But while the seventy sixers and the rest
Speaker 1: of the NBA weight and pine for an eventual return,
Speaker 1: don't sleep on this, Tobias Harris has one mission on
Speaker 1: his mind. He wants to play. He wants to compete.
Speaker 1: He wants to win for the city of Philadelphia. I
Speaker 1: would see if we don't know if we're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to play in front of fans, but if we can,
Speaker 1: that would be just amazing to get back out there,
Speaker 1: play in front of our passion fans, play for our city.
Speaker 1: If we can, it would just be good to go
Speaker 1: out there and represent something of everybody that's ruling us
Speaker 1: on from home from TV and I have a chance
Speaker 1: to win a championship. This has been posted up presented
Speaker 1: by Caesar's Online with Tobias Harris. Be sure to check
Speaker 1: out Lauren Rosen's article about Tobias that's also part of
Speaker 1: our Post It Up Hiatus content series. You can find
Speaker 1: it on the seventy six ers app, sixers dot com
Speaker 1: and across all our social channels. Thanks to Lauren, Kristen Crosby,
Speaker 1: and Nick McCain for their help producing this episode. Our
Speaker 1: music is courtesy of Universal Production Music and the YouTube
Speaker 1: Audio Library. Next time, we'll post up with Al Horford,
Speaker 1: who's been living his best dad life in quarantine with
Speaker 1: us three kids. We're obviously going through a very hard
Speaker 1: time in the world with this pandemic, but having to
Speaker 1: time with them. It's something that I don't think it
Speaker 1: would ever happened, and I've gotten to know them so
Speaker 1: much more. I'm Brian Seltzer. Thanks for listening. Be sure
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