Speaker 1: The seventy Sixers. We're back at home and net, as
Speaker 1: we've come to learn, is a very very good thing.
Speaker 1: Jam but teastible with the right hand, Jam and the
Speaker 1: Sixers are picking apart the Memphish Grizzlies. The Sixers polish
Speaker 1: off the Memphis Grizzlies one nineteen to one oh seven.
Speaker 1: It breaks the season high time four game losing streak,
Speaker 1: their ninth straight win at home, and one of the
Speaker 1: neatest parts about the win over the Memphis Grizzlies the
Speaker 1: Sixers didn't even have their two new guys with them yet.
Speaker 1: Fortunate to add Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson the Third.
Speaker 1: They're going to boost us offensively and defensively. I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to getting them here. Who are Alec Burks and
Speaker 1: Glenn Robinson the Third and how might they be able
Speaker 1: to help the Sixers. We'll talk about that with Devon
Speaker 1: Gibbons on this episode of the broadcast. What's going on
Speaker 1: out there? Seventy Sixers? Pod people, you know, it is
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Speaker 1: and man, were the Sixers overdue for a dub in
Speaker 1: the worst way. On Friday when they played the Memphis
Speaker 1: Grizzlies at the Center. The good news was the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers came out on top one nineteen one oh seven
Speaker 1: after that winless four game road trip. Ben Simmons was
Speaker 1: the beast. So Ben Simmons with a wake up call
Speaker 1: for the grizz right Domlae with a right hand slam.
Speaker 1: Furky was feeling it. Here's cork Boss for another three
Speaker 1: and he thrills it. The fans rising as one, They're
Speaker 1: feeling it. By the end of the evening, all was
Speaker 1: right with the world. Josh Richardson back for the first
Speaker 1: time in seven games, and hey, Alec Burks and Glenn
Speaker 1: Robinson the third weren't even in uniform yet, and those
Speaker 1: two gents will be the focus of this podcast with
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Speaker 1: trade deadline where I would presume the majority of you
Speaker 1: hard working seventy six Ers fans out there who were
Speaker 1: just looking for an easy, uninterrupted night's worth of sleep,
Speaker 1: could have very well been awoken by the buzz or
Speaker 1: a ding of a cell phone and you look down
Speaker 1: and you see on your screen and alert coming from
Speaker 1: none other than ESPN's Adrian Wodronowski's rage just happened since
Speaker 1: we'd come on the air, What do you got for us?
Speaker 1: Philadelphia has bolstered their bench Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson
Speaker 1: from Golden State on their way to the Sixers for
Speaker 1: three future second round picks. There was a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure on the Sixers to get some more shooting, some
Speaker 1: more scoring. That was indeed the news that Woade reported
Speaker 1: a little bit after midnight Eastern early Thursday morning, about
Speaker 1: fifteen hours before the three pm trade deadline, that the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers would be getting from the Golden State Warriors
Speaker 1: Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson. The third the news became
Speaker 1: official a little bit after seven o'clock on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: and then on Friday down at the Center before the
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers tipped off in what would be a
Speaker 1: win over the Memphis Grizzlies. Sixers general manager Elton Brand
Speaker 1: met with the media and shared his thoughts on the acquisitions.
Speaker 1: Pages of shooting, Did you talk specifically about Glenn and
Speaker 1: dolg and Lye there's still sets match here, Yeah, Glenn.
Speaker 1: I'll start with Glenn Robinson, the third um. Of course,
Speaker 1: the shooting, we mentioned that, but you know, defensively, he's
Speaker 1: guarded the best players. I know, it's career year and
Speaker 1: the team he was on wasn't having a great year.
Speaker 1: But he will play dum for us at an extremely
Speaker 1: high level, and he can shoot the ball. And then
Speaker 1: he's young and kind of fits our plans. Alec Burks.
Speaker 1: You know, just the other day I watched him score
Speaker 1: thirty on the road. So when I was able to
Speaker 1: get him elite score, leite talent, can get to the
Speaker 1: foul line, can finish, and he can play defense also,
Speaker 1: So you know, being able to add those two, I
Speaker 1: think it gave us the boosts will need to, you know,
Speaker 1: make a run before all star break and make a
Speaker 1: run before the playoffs after that. Clearly Elton Brand believing
Speaker 1: that Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson the third two veterans
Speaker 1: who can help the seventy sixers right now and moving
Speaker 1: forward on both ends of the floor. When we need
Speaker 1: some straight shooting analysis. There is no one who we
Speaker 1: turn to other than this man. It is. It's great
Speaker 1: to have him on the pod from ninety seven five
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Speaker 1: De why don't we start here? Surprised or not surprised
Speaker 1: that the Sixers ended up making a move, No, I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised at all. Just understanding where the team is
Speaker 1: as of right now and some of the issues that
Speaker 1: they may have had a little bit over the course
Speaker 1: of the last few weeks where they've struggled, specifically on
Speaker 1: the road and scoring off the bench. I thought that
Speaker 1: that would be the focus and seeing what they were
Speaker 1: able to do with the acquisition of Alec Berks and
Speaker 1: Glenn Robinson. The third that they had a focus on
Speaker 1: that exactly, which was again to help voice both of
Speaker 1: the bench and see what they can get in terms
Speaker 1: of scoring, some more ball handling, some more outside shooting,
Speaker 1: athleticism if you will to go with this team off
Speaker 1: the bench, because as much as Quirk mis and thy
Speaker 1: Will have done well on the perimeter, you know you've
Speaker 1: had your struggles, if you will, with Mike Scott, James Ennis,
Speaker 1: and a few others where this was probably a necessary
Speaker 1: thing for them to go out there and do. Being
Speaker 1: as one of these championship contenders, you know at times
Speaker 1: you have to go and take a shot when it
Speaker 1: comes to certain things. And Elton Brand in the front office,
Speaker 1: they did that in the off season with the acquisition
Speaker 1: of Josh Richardson and Al Horford, bringing back to Bias Harris,
Speaker 1: and over the last couple of all seasons they've done
Speaker 1: the exact same thing by making the trade deadline moves,
Speaker 1: the buyout period, all of that to help this team
Speaker 1: push to where they need to be. Not only do
Speaker 1: we have those standards for the team and the expectations,
Speaker 1: but we know that the same can be said for
Speaker 1: the organization. So I was not surprised at all based
Speaker 1: off of where they are currently in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: If Elton has shown anything over the course of his
Speaker 1: time as a general manager, I think it's that he's
Speaker 1: willing to not operate conservatively. He's willing to try and
Speaker 1: constantly find opportunities to make some tweaks and changes. Now,
Speaker 1: last year we saw twice two really big changes were
Speaker 1: made when the team went out and got Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: in November and then made the trade with the La
Speaker 1: Clippers for Tobias Harris, Boban and Mike Scott this year.
Speaker 1: In the aftermath some of the moves that were made
Speaker 1: during the offseason and the commitments that the seventy sixers made,
Speaker 1: this kind of seemed like it had to be a
Speaker 1: situation where Elton made a move around the margins, right,
Speaker 1: Like I just thought, for everything that was going on
Speaker 1: around the team leading up the trade deadline, it really
Speaker 1: would have taken something substantially dramatic for a blockbuster to
Speaker 1: go down. I think that that's exactly where Elton brand
Speaker 1: was and just tinkering around the edges to make sure
Speaker 1: that they fill out the rest of the roster the
Speaker 1: depth overall. If you Will and looking at where Brett
Speaker 1: Brown is going to have his rotation as we get
Speaker 1: closer to the postseason, the end of the regular season,
Speaker 1: when you get to the postseason, the playoffs, we all
Speaker 1: know that the rotation is going to shorten out a
Speaker 1: little bit. So that's something that they wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that they were able to shore up. You already
Speaker 1: have Mike Scott playing the amount of minutes that he
Speaker 1: does in the regular rotation, minutes Stybel the same thing,
Speaker 1: Shake Milton starting to come on a little bit. You
Speaker 1: needed to have a little bit extra coming off the
Speaker 1: bench to give teams a different look, a different type
Speaker 1: of approach when we got we get to that point
Speaker 1: of the season, regular season and of course the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So I totally agree. I did not expect any type
Speaker 1: of blockbuster after what they did in the off season.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even date back to Jimmy Butler and to
Speaker 1: buyas Harris, Mike Scott, and Boban It's about right now
Speaker 1: where you look at what they did in the off
Speaker 1: season by again bringing back Harris, acquiring Horford and Richardson,
Speaker 1: those were the blockbusters that they had to do. Now
Speaker 1: it was about simply going out there and shoring up
Speaker 1: the rest of the roster. You mentioned the rotation, whether
Speaker 1: it's for the immediate future right now, in the middle
Speaker 1: of the regular season, or looking farther down the road
Speaker 1: towards the playoffs, how do you think that's going to
Speaker 1: shake out. Let's get into that, because obviously, now based
Speaker 1: on some of the corresponding moves the Sixers have made,
Speaker 1: Trey Burke was waived, Jonah Bolden was released as well
Speaker 1: James and it's the third sent to the Orlando Magic
Speaker 1: for a future second round pick. And it's the third. However,
Speaker 1: really the only player of that three player group that
Speaker 1: you could say falls in line of the batch of
Speaker 1: minutes that could go towards a player like let's say,
Speaker 1: Alec Burke's or a Glenn Robinson the third and also
Speaker 1: at that wing shooting guards spot behind Josh Richardson, there's
Speaker 1: guys like Furkon, Corkmasmatist, Stable Shake Milton, all of whom
Speaker 1: it seems like the Sixers want to see more of.
Speaker 1: So where do you see perhaps some of these new
Speaker 1: players fitting in. Yeah, and that's that's a great question.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked that one, because when you do
Speaker 1: look at that and we see how things are starting
Speaker 1: to play out. I think Brett Brown is going to
Speaker 1: tinker a little bit and see which works the best. Right, So,
Speaker 1: when you have the struggles that you maybe have had
Speaker 1: in the past and the postseason with the skill guys
Speaker 1: where specialty players, let's say for kN korkmis as a while,
Speaker 1: they're still trying to as Brett Brown likes to say,
Speaker 1: grow a shooter. They also want him to do a
Speaker 1: few other things put the ball on the floor. But
Speaker 1: he struggles a little bit defensively. Where in this instant
Speaker 1: when they do have a certain matchup that they have
Speaker 1: and a certain lineup that they may want but still
Speaker 1: need that shooting out there, maybe Brown decides, you know what,
Speaker 1: we know Matis Steibel can play the defensive side, but
Speaker 1: offensively he might struggle just a little bit. It's the postseason.
Speaker 1: This is something totally new for him. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a physical game, not to say that he can't play
Speaker 1: in it, but still learning as a rookie where you
Speaker 1: might be able to throw in Glenn Robinson the third
Speaker 1: because he is a similar size, has similar length, and
Speaker 1: the athleticism to keep up with a specific player just
Speaker 1: because of his overall attributes as a player at standing
Speaker 1: at six five sixty six as Glenn Robinson. So I
Speaker 1: think that that's where Brett Brown would try to figure
Speaker 1: those things out along the way, thinking offense defense. While
Speaker 1: I may be more focused on the defense, I'm still
Speaker 1: not losing much, but I still have something in Glenn
Speaker 1: Robinson shooting a career high from behind the three point
Speaker 1: line and give you that defensive presence that is still
Speaker 1: needed out there. Whereas for Kan Korkmas, the leading of
Speaker 1: three point maker for the seventy six ers, may struggle
Speaker 1: a bit on the defensive end. So I think that
Speaker 1: that's where it will go. Shake Milton the same thing
Speaker 1: while he's playing well, Will Brett Brown trust someone like
Speaker 1: Alec Burks in his spot instead of giving those minutes
Speaker 1: to shake Milton? And it could be who the opponent is.
Speaker 1: It could be who is opposite them in that particular
Speaker 1: lineup for the opposition where Brown might decide to go
Speaker 1: that route. We know it's going to be shortened. You
Speaker 1: know Mike Scott is going to be in there. You
Speaker 1: assume Burkes and Robinson are going to be in there.
Speaker 1: And that's eight. Now what Now, where's the other going
Speaker 1: to come from. Where's that nine ten? And how will
Speaker 1: Nato getting those minutes? Now, maybe those backup point guardmentutes
Speaker 1: when Josh Richardson comes back, they'll slide some of those
Speaker 1: to shake Milton and or Alec Burks to handle that
Speaker 1: responsibility to be as well. So Brett Brown has some
Speaker 1: more things to work with, and I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: how he ultimately figures those things out, depending on what
Speaker 1: the matchup is on any given night and in any
Speaker 1: given series. Nelson, I think that by the end of
Speaker 1: the regular season and even when this year ends, I
Speaker 1: think something that people will be able to step back
Speaker 1: and look at, we're the minutes that guys like Thyble
Speaker 1: and Milton and Korkmis got this year and what those
Speaker 1: younger players were able to do with it, and how
Speaker 1: that could help the seventy six ers in the future.
Speaker 1: But as we've seen the last two years, and as
Speaker 1: you were just talking about, the playoffs are a totally
Speaker 1: different deal, and I feel like it can never hurt
Speaker 1: to have some battle tested guys, some veteran guys who
Speaker 1: you could call upon if needed. Glenn Robinson the third
Speaker 1: has been around for a while, someone like Alec Burks,
Speaker 1: who spent the first handful of his seasons parts of
Speaker 1: eight years with the Utah Jazz. By the time he
Speaker 1: left there, they were back in the playoff picture. He's
Speaker 1: a guy who's been around, and you know, these are
Speaker 1: guys who have experienced a little bit more than let's say,
Speaker 1: the likes of Thible and Quark, Moise and Milton at
Speaker 1: least relative to the bright spotlight of postseason basketball right right,
Speaker 1: just being there, and even Glenn Robinson the third I
Speaker 1: don't want to be wrong, but I want to say
Speaker 1: that the Indiana Pacers when he was with the Pacers,
Speaker 1: they made it to the postseason. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: many minutes I'll check on that. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be wrong on it, but I look at that, and
Speaker 1: you're right. The battle tested situation. We've seen it plenty
Speaker 1: of times. When the young players get into that new situation,
Speaker 1: that new season, as everyone calls itself, and will they
Speaker 1: be ready for it? Will they prepare for it? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Will they be ready for it? The physicality, the different
Speaker 1: type of speed of the game in the postseason that
Speaker 1: everyone talks about, how things change, it will certainly help
Speaker 1: to have. Of course, Mike Scott there and the starting five,
Speaker 1: but what about the rest When it comes to Thiable,
Speaker 1: Corkmis and Milton, it certainly helps to have Burkes and
Speaker 1: Robinson the third along foot of ride. Right now, the
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Speaker 1: All Right, divine, getting back to it, when we look
Speaker 1: at some of the numbers that Robinson the Third and
Speaker 1: Burkes are putting up with the Golden State Warriors, You've
Speaker 1: got Robinson averaging just under thirteen points a game, shot
Speaker 1: forty percent from outside the arc, Burkes sixteen points per game,
Speaker 1: career high average, obviously playing some of the highest volume
Speaker 1: minutes of his career, but thirty seven and a half
Speaker 1: percent from three point territory. And you know, these just
Speaker 1: weren't nice percentages. They're shooting at a pretty high volume
Speaker 1: as well. But obviously the subcontext for this is that
Speaker 1: Golden State is having a very un Goolden State like
Speaker 1: season this year, dealing with a lot of injuries. That
Speaker 1: means different guys than you might have expected at the
Speaker 1: outset of the year are going to get more minutes.
Speaker 1: So how do you reconcile some of the stuff that
Speaker 1: we've seen, at least on paper from Robinson and Burkes
Speaker 1: with how Golden State collectively was performing and what that
Speaker 1: might mean now that obviously the two of these players
Speaker 1: are going to be in a much different spot with
Speaker 1: the seventy six or a team that's battling for contention. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would think that just looking at the career numbers
Speaker 1: Alec Burks, a lot of it was situational injury history
Speaker 1: with the Utah Jazz where he missed time and Glenn
Speaker 1: Robinson the third a different path where he had to
Speaker 1: really work for his and get to where he is now,
Speaker 1: and he fell into the perfect opportunity with the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors, as you said, a unlike Golden State Warriors
Speaker 1: type of season with the injuries and all and the
Speaker 1: new pieces that they had moving on from certain players
Speaker 1: that they had an opportunity. And we know a lot
Speaker 1: of times it says, hey, I'm a bad team. Some
Speaker 1: people have to put up the numbers. Someone has to
Speaker 1: do it. Points are gonna go up, someone has to
Speaker 1: do it well. High volume of minutes for Alec Burks,
Speaker 1: as you pointed out, and he responded with those quality
Speaker 1: numbers just over sixteen points a game, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: right around thirty seven percent from behind the three point line,
Speaker 1: a versatile overall scorer and as well as he has
Speaker 1: shot the basketball. So it's I've always liked his game
Speaker 1: all the way back to Colorado as a collegiate player,
Speaker 1: because of the way he can handle the ball, his
Speaker 1: shiftiness at his size, put the ball on the floor,
Speaker 1: get the certain spots, still elevate sneaky, elevate over people,
Speaker 1: and finish at the rim very crafty. And now adding
Speaker 1: this three point three point shot to his game the
Speaker 1: way that he has so frequently, it just looks good
Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia seventy six ers. So a tune up,
Speaker 1: if you will, with the Golden State Warriors to go
Speaker 1: out there play those big minutes, have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: do that. But also know that in the past he
Speaker 1: was playing as a reserve. He's still a reserve with
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors, but playing as a reserve where
Speaker 1: his minutes might be down. But understanding here that they
Speaker 1: brought him in here for a reason. They brought him
Speaker 1: in here to put the ball on the floor, to
Speaker 1: put the ball in the bucket and that's what they
Speaker 1: need from him. That's what they want from him. A
Speaker 1: decent defender, not as good as Glenn Robinson the Third,
Speaker 1: but someone that you feel like you can count on,
Speaker 1: you don't look to necessarily hide as a defender. And
Speaker 1: as far as Glenn Robinson the third coming in now
Speaker 1: a former sixer, you know he was here doing the
Speaker 1: early rebuilding stages with the team. Same thing, really just
Speaker 1: an opportunity, and now that he has the opportunities, both
Speaker 1: of these players have a chance to play for a
Speaker 1: playoff team, play meaningful minutes and hopefully carrying over the
Speaker 1: confidence that they bring with them from the Golden State
Speaker 1: Warriors to now when nothing really falls off. Yes, the
Speaker 1: numbers are going to fall off in terms of points
Speaker 1: per game because the high value of touches and opportunities
Speaker 1: that they had there may not present themselves here in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: But again, the confidence and understanding that the coach is
Speaker 1: going to draw things up and call things for them
Speaker 1: to get them involved where they're not just sitting around
Speaker 1: running to the corner and not involved in the offense.
Speaker 1: I look forward again to seeing how Brett Brown incorporates
Speaker 1: them into it and how they handle their new situation.
Speaker 1: Someone asked me this the other day after the trade deadline,
Speaker 1: if I could name five players on the seventy sixers
Speaker 1: during the final game that Glenn Robinson, the third played
Speaker 1: here previously, so he ended the twenty fourteen fifteen season
Speaker 1: with the Sixers. Was Brett Brown's second year? Do you
Speaker 1: think you can name a handful of guys who were
Speaker 1: on the team that season and you said this was
Speaker 1: the second year? Yeah, fourteen fifteen. If you have to
Speaker 1: take a crack, let's uh, as many as many guys
Speaker 1: as you could name who finished the season on the
Speaker 1: roster that year. I think I got four, yea four
Speaker 1: players on my own. Hollis Thompson, Yes, Henry Sims, Yes,
Speaker 1: Tony Rowton, let me check he I don't think he season.
Speaker 1: Let me I'll i'll fact check that while you continue
Speaker 1: your car Sameson, Yes, how about he said was issue
Speaker 1: on that team? Which was on that team? Great job
Speaker 1: by you, okay, Is Schmidt, I have to beat you
Speaker 1: four and go for fifth. I will go with um.
Speaker 1: Brandon Davies. Oh, that is a great name from the past. Ah.
Speaker 1: I don't think Brandon Davies was on the roster at
Speaker 1: the end of that season, Roten was he was hurt
Speaker 1: at that point. I forgot about that at the end
Speaker 1: of the end of the season injured. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's an exciting probably performance by you. Okay, so
Speaker 1: there's five right there. All right. I was gonna I
Speaker 1: was gonna run a few more, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if they were could No, we can, you can just
Speaker 1: go ah. I don't think he ended the year with him, No,
Speaker 1: Casper Ware, No, he didn't end the season with the team. Wow,
Speaker 1: there's one guy who I thought two guys actually I
Speaker 1: thought kind of were maybe like year three or four
Speaker 1: of Brett, But yeah, they were on the fourteen fifteen team.
Speaker 1: Also Isaiah Cannon. I forgot that he was there that early. Uh,
Speaker 1: and Luke Bob as well of course, and Robert Covington absolutely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Now with the rockets, how about that? Yeah, look at
Speaker 1: that a blast from the past. It is crazy to
Speaker 1: a like, think of the sixers back at that point
Speaker 1: in time, but also that here's a guy like Glenn Robinson,
Speaker 1: the third who came in at the end of that year,
Speaker 1: spent like two months with the seventy sixers, and he's
Speaker 1: had enough staying power in the NBA to come full
Speaker 1: circle in a certain sense and now find himself back
Speaker 1: with the very same team, obviously at a much different
Speaker 1: stage of the franchise's timeline. Yeah, and it's good. It
Speaker 1: just goes to show how guys just simply persevere over
Speaker 1: what's going on out there. We know it's a tough
Speaker 1: business and there are only a certain amount of spots
Speaker 1: in this great association where you can end up on
Speaker 1: a team, and he's worked through it. Nothing was handed
Speaker 1: to him, and he found an opportunity in Golden State
Speaker 1: where now he is part of a trade with a
Speaker 1: playoff contender with the Philadelphia seventy sixers, where they look
Speaker 1: at him as someone who can come in and give
Speaker 1: them good minutes, not just for his defense and his
Speaker 1: athleticism as we may have looked at in the early
Speaker 1: stages as you said of the rebuild of the Brett
Speaker 1: Brown era, but now known for his also sells his
Speaker 1: outside shooting, where that would not have been something that
Speaker 1: I would have put a check mark next to his
Speaker 1: first time around with his team. So it just goes
Speaker 1: to show to hard work and once again just having
Speaker 1: an opportunity and working his tailoff to be in a
Speaker 1: situation like he is now to play for a playoff
Speaker 1: team here in Philadelphia. Did well ended with this, mister Devane,
Speaker 1: Agree or disagree. While these trade deadline moves by the
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers and Elton brand can certainly figure to help,
Speaker 1: it seems like I probably will bring in Alec Burks
Speaker 1: and Glenn Robinson the third. Ultimately, it will come down
Speaker 1: to the combination of health and the main core that
Speaker 1: this team was counting on at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: season to get the group to where it ultimately wants
Speaker 1: to go. Without question, as you pointed out earlier, it's
Speaker 1: great to have these players added to the team. They
Speaker 1: bring something that was much needed for this basketball team
Speaker 1: to short things up. But when it's all said and done,
Speaker 1: I think, no matter if it ends as you pointed
Speaker 1: out in late May, late June or mid June, that
Speaker 1: when we look back, we're going to say the core,
Speaker 1: with the help of everyone else, the core is really
Speaker 1: what got the team where they ultimately end up at
Speaker 1: the end of the season. So should be an interesting
Speaker 1: ride to see how things go. I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: how these two new pieces jump in here with the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy six Ers as we head into the All
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Speaker 1: We appreciate as always having Divon on the pod. Appreciate
Speaker 1: you listening as well. Hopefully the Sixers can keep on
Speaker 1: building some amentum after that win of the Grizzlies. They've
Speaker 1: got the Bowls and the Clippers before the All Star
Speaker 1: Game break. And of course you can catch rewind editions
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