Speaker 1: Exciting, promising times for the seventy Sixers, indeed, a major
Speaker 1: splash at the trade deadline and lately some wins over
Speaker 1: a couple quality opponents. We'll talk about the team with
Speaker 1: some of the guys from the NBA on ESPN Radio
Speaker 1: crew Mark Kestershire. If they keep this up post All
Speaker 1: Star Break, I think to make the NBA Finals would
Speaker 1: not surprise me. And a former coach and one time
Speaker 1: colleague of Brett Brown PJ Carlison to me, Joel has
Speaker 1: gone to another level. You're talking clearly one of the
Speaker 1: best players in the league. As we head towards the
Speaker 1: All Star Break, Mark and PJ join us on this
Speaker 1: episode of the broadcast What's going on out there seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers podcast. People, Hope you are doing great. I'm Brian
Speaker 1: Seltzer coming back at you with another episode not too
Speaker 1: long after our previous episode dropped. If you have not
Speaker 1: heard it yet. An interview that Devon Gibbons from ninety
Speaker 1: seventy five to Fanatic and I did with seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers general manager Elton brand about all things that went
Speaker 1: down at the trade deadline that came out a couple
Speaker 1: days ago, so it's still relatively fresh if you have
Speaker 1: not yet listened to it, thought that Elton told some
Speaker 1: very interesting and insightful story, so check it out. And
Speaker 1: coming up on this edition, we're going to sit down
Speaker 1: with Mark Kestershire and A PJ. Carlissimo. If you are
Speaker 1: a hardcore NBA fan, you've probably heard them a bunch
Speaker 1: on the NBA on ESPN Radio. They are the top
Speaker 1: national crew from ESPN's radio coverage of the league. They
Speaker 1: do the Finals, They're going to be doing the All
Speaker 1: Star Game this coming weekend, the top game each week,
Speaker 1: and they've been in town for a couple of games
Speaker 1: the Sixers have had lately against the Lakers and the
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics, so I had the chance to catch up
Speaker 1: with them, and we'll hear from them in a moment
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Speaker 1: will take you to our feed for the Sixers. They
Speaker 1: have been a relevant story in the NBA for the
Speaker 1: last couple of seasons, but increasingly so as of late.
Speaker 1: Not only was there the promise and the hype surrounding
Speaker 1: the team going into this year after the fifty two
Speaker 1: win season and second round playoff appearance last year, but
Speaker 1: then the November blockbuster that brought the Sixers Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: and most recently, the day before the trade deadline, the
Speaker 1: major move made with the La Clippers that netted Tobias Harris,
Speaker 1: boban Manyanovitch and Mike Scott, and then Elton Brand landed
Speaker 1: two more veterans and Jonathan Simmons and James and it's
Speaker 1: the third before the deadline passed, So a lot has
Speaker 1: been going on in Sixers Land, not to say anything
Speaker 1: of the two most recent wins that the Sixers have
Speaker 1: picked up since the deadline itself, and that was against
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets last Sunday and Friday, respectively.
Speaker 1: So Mark Kestershire PJ. Carlissimo of the NBA on ESPN
Speaker 1: Radio in down covering a couple of those games, and
Speaker 1: when they were passing through the seventy six ers training
Speaker 1: complex in Camden a couple of days earlier, we sat
Speaker 1: down to talk about it before the Sixers host the
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics on Tuesday. One of the really neat cool
Speaker 1: things about these seventy Sixers ascent in recent seasons is
Speaker 1: that we get dignitaries from around the league passing through
Speaker 1: Philadelphia and Camden, and it's awesome to be catching up
Speaker 1: with Mark Kessiter and PJ Carlissimo from the NBA on
Speaker 1: ESPN Radio. Crew. Guys, great to see you in these parts.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on the pod. Well, one dignitary. I
Speaker 1: think PJ would classify as such. I'm just hanging on
Speaker 1: good time. You're off to a rough start, Brian cred
Speaker 1: not good right now. We're only in the business of
Speaker 1: trying to butter people out the lob softballs when they're
Speaker 1: good enough to come on the pods like Well, we're
Speaker 1: just happy to be back to Philadelphia after many years
Speaker 1: of not coming to these parts. So it's nice to
Speaker 1: be back in Philly, and even better when we have
Speaker 1: a schedule where we have two games Laker games Sunday,
Speaker 1: Boston game on Tuesday, so we get a chance to
Speaker 1: enjoy the city even more than usually. That was one
Speaker 1: thing I was going to ask you, guys, is there
Speaker 1: something need about it from your end too, where there's
Speaker 1: a team that re emerges after a couple down seasons
Speaker 1: and they become a little bit more relevant in the league,
Speaker 1: and especially the way the seventy sixes have done it, well,
Speaker 1: I'm prejudiced. Brett Brown and I worked together for five
Speaker 1: years in San Antonio. I've known Brett since he was
Speaker 1: a young not even a senior, a young high school player.
Speaker 1: Of course, his father, Bob was a legendary coach up
Speaker 1: in New England and played against Brett when he was
Speaker 1: at Boston University and stayed in touching him all the time.
Speaker 1: He coaches in Australia, so it's somebody I know extremely well.
Speaker 1: I'm just so happy that the organization did what normally
Speaker 1: doesn't happen in the NBA. They stayed with a guy,
Speaker 1: the guy that took with the lumps for a bunch
Speaker 1: of years, and they rewarded him and allowed him to
Speaker 1: see here and see the growth that has happened. And
Speaker 1: so selfishly I'm thrilled with that. I think he's done
Speaker 1: an exceptional job. And this year, you know, good news
Speaker 1: what Elton in the front office has done. It's really
Speaker 1: it's great the way they've reach the roster. But for
Speaker 1: a coach, I mean, it's funny that you're seeing tomorrow
Speaker 1: two teams go at each other or with the Celtic
Speaker 1: Sixer game, Celtics are basically untouched. So Brad's been coaching
Speaker 1: the same team not just for a year, but almost
Speaker 1: for a couple of years, and it seems like Pilly
Speaker 1: changes every couple of months. That's really hard from a
Speaker 1: coaching standpoint. The good news is you're getting some better
Speaker 1: players and I think the pieces fit well together. But
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to watching these last twenty five
Speaker 1: plus games and seeing the Sixers continue to improve and
Speaker 1: seeing what they're going to be able to do, not
Speaker 1: just this year. Everybody wants to know you, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna win a championship this year. I'd love if they
Speaker 1: could do that, But I just want to see what
Speaker 1: they're going to do in the future, because they seem
Speaker 1: to be set up extremely well going forward. You make
Speaker 1: a great point. There are only a little bit more
Speaker 1: than two dozen games left in the regular season, and
Speaker 1: regardless mark of the type of talent that you have
Speaker 1: on a roster, that's still a relatively limited window of
Speaker 1: time to try and get everything's right. On the surprise scale,
Speaker 1: where did let's go over the two big trades Elton
Speaker 1: Brand of the seventy sixers have made this season. On
Speaker 1: the surprise scale, where did Jimmy rank for you from
Speaker 1: a national perspective as someone who falls league and then
Speaker 1: the Tobias Harris La Clipper swap. I wasn't as surprised
Speaker 1: with the Jimmy trade. I mean, it was so early
Speaker 1: in the season and it was inevitable, right something was
Speaker 1: going to happen. He was going to get out of
Speaker 1: Minnesota somehow, and it seemed early enough where it was
Speaker 1: almost like an offseason acquisition that you could fill him in,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's an upgrade in many respects to
Speaker 1: the roster. I was not as I wasn't surprised with
Speaker 1: the three player trade that Tobias Harris was involved with.
Speaker 1: Maybe more surprised on the Marquelle Folds trade, you know,
Speaker 1: just looking down the future, maybe not you know, for
Speaker 1: this team. But to amplify on Pj's point, it's I'm
Speaker 1: sure he could tell us from a coaching perspective when
Speaker 1: you have and it reminds me of Cleveland last year
Speaker 1: right before the All Star break when they brought in
Speaker 1: all these guys and ty Lou had to first of
Speaker 1: all figure out how to play them in the one
Speaker 1: game before the All Star break, and then try to
Speaker 1: mesh them together in the sprint to the finish. It's
Speaker 1: not even the halfway point anymore. It's like the final
Speaker 1: third of the season. And even though they know survived
Speaker 1: Indiana in the first round, it was still flawed all
Speaker 1: the way to the end. So I think, you know,
Speaker 1: for Brett, you know, his job of trying to figure
Speaker 1: out not only how to match these guys to where
Speaker 1: they work to their best, it's also a matter of
Speaker 1: when the rotation starts to come down even more from
Speaker 1: ten guys now to nine and as coaches told us,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe eight and a half when we get
Speaker 1: to the playoff spot. Is just figuring out what are
Speaker 1: the best combinations to put you in the best frame
Speaker 1: of mind. So neither really surprised me totally. But I
Speaker 1: think at this stage, with twenty six games to go
Speaker 1: in the regular season and then the postseason sprint, there's
Speaker 1: still a lot of work to do. A phrase that
Speaker 1: Brett often uses when he's talking to us the media
Speaker 1: is it's early days. It's early days, and really with
Speaker 1: this revamped starting five, it could not be earlier days.
Speaker 1: Just two games but against quality opponents. Try not to
Speaker 1: make too much the numbers. But the net rating right
Speaker 1: now is over twenty, which is pretty darn good. And
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to peg you guys down to a
Speaker 1: specific number or a rank, but in general initial vibes,
Speaker 1: where would you put this starting five, Like what class
Speaker 1: are we talking about here when you compare it to
Speaker 1: the rest of the league. I mean, if you're looking
Speaker 1: in the east, I gotta put it right up there
Speaker 1: near the top. I know, on the day that the
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris trade was made, some people are saying best
Speaker 1: five in the NBA, and you know, to me, I
Speaker 1: don't think you could touch what Golden State is doing
Speaker 1: right now. So I don't know if PJ if you
Speaker 1: agree with that, it's yeah. I mean, there's no question
Speaker 1: the talent is incredible. What jumps out at you, though,
Speaker 1: is you're not talking a ton of experience and you're
Speaker 1: not talking a ton of playoff success, And that really
Speaker 1: defines when you talk about players in the league. That's
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. It comes down to playoff
Speaker 1: success and that usually goes hand in hand with experience.
Speaker 1: So I just think it's really hard until they you know,
Speaker 1: it's a big deal to make the playoffs, and it's
Speaker 1: a big deal to get in a round or two.
Speaker 1: When you start talking about winning a conference final or
Speaker 1: winning an NBA championship, it's a whole other level. And
Speaker 1: I think, to me, that's what separates you know, are like, yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: that looks pretty the starting Don't get me wrong, it's
Speaker 1: an excellent starting lineup, but they have a lot of
Speaker 1: filling out to do on their resumes before you, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, before you can compare them to some of
Speaker 1: the other groups. And it's also the egos too, right,
Speaker 1: You've got to have guys that are willing to take
Speaker 1: a step back. I mean, you have five guys that
Speaker 1: are averaging what's seventeen points a game, and you see
Speaker 1: a golden state if you know, it's it's rare that
Speaker 1: Steph Curry has an off night, but when he does,
Speaker 1: you know he's more than willing to Okay, this is
Speaker 1: me and that I'm gonna have eleven assists or twelve assists.
Speaker 1: And you need that from guys that are alphas that
Speaker 1: are able to step back. Don't get me wrong, there's
Speaker 1: a whole lot of us that would love to be
Speaker 1: sitting where Brett's sitting right now and working with this group.
Speaker 1: But I just think sometimes everybody kind of looked at
Speaker 1: it and said, well, now, I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be what a cover on Sports Illustrated, So god knows
Speaker 1: what they're gonna say. But I was like, whoa wait
Speaker 1: a minute here, guys, Let's let's play some games, let's
Speaker 1: win some playoff series. Let's do some real successful things
Speaker 1: in April, May and June, and then you can start
Speaker 1: elevating the group. I know a lot people talk about
Speaker 1: the length of an eighty two game season, I think,
Speaker 1: especially in a context like this where so much can change.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Brett put it to you guys
Speaker 1: like this, but in the media scrum, he was saying
Speaker 1: like he feels like this is the third different team
Speaker 1: he's coached this year, and so that's one of the
Speaker 1: neat things about an NBA season that long, that you
Speaker 1: can have so many different iterations. But it is tough
Speaker 1: not to look ahead to what happens after April the tenth,
Speaker 1: and we talked talking about the playoffs for two guys
Speaker 1: in particular, Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid. What's what's the
Speaker 1: pulse that you guys see on those two players in particular,
Speaker 1: And you're gonna see them this weekend too in it
Speaker 1: All Star Game on opposite teams. You know, Embiid has
Speaker 1: I mean he stepped right to the four amongst the
Speaker 1: best players in the league right now. You know, for Simmons,
Speaker 1: there's still some aspects of his game he has to
Speaker 1: work out, notably the shooting aspect. You know, from range.
Speaker 1: He does just about everything else. I know, the playoffs,
Speaker 1: the second round series didn't go well against Boston last year,
Speaker 1: so that's going to be his measuring stick to see
Speaker 1: where he can get get to the next level. Yeah, Joel,
Speaker 1: I mean to me, Joel has gone to another level,
Speaker 1: diminishing what Ben has done. But Joel's at a different level.
Speaker 1: You're talking clearly one of the best players in the league.
Speaker 1: Just is so versatile, does so many things. Again, the
Speaker 1: only missing element is, you know, some championships, some playoff
Speaker 1: series wins, things like that. Because he's accumulating everything else.
Speaker 1: Ben's got a hole in his game. I mean he
Speaker 1: doesn't make free throws and he doesn't shoot the ball.
Speaker 1: It was bizarre watching the way Lebron played him on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was Lebron. I'm I said early, I
Speaker 1: told Kessie Lebron's gonna get like five defensive threes. He
Speaker 1: didn't get one until I think the last six minutes
Speaker 1: of the game. Right I couldn't believe it. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was not even and that's a little unsettling to
Speaker 1: be played like that. But there are a lot of
Speaker 1: players in this league who have not been great perimeter
Speaker 1: shooters who have done very well that The free throw
Speaker 1: concerns me more because he's a point guard and he's
Speaker 1: got the ball in his hand a lot, and he's
Speaker 1: got to do that now. Haven't said that. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm bringing pretty hard on Ben. He's had a great
Speaker 1: career right now. But I just think Joels a lot
Speaker 1: further along in his development than Ben is right now.
Speaker 1: And that's the player perspective. And I think the other
Speaker 1: part of your question two is how the standings are
Speaker 1: going to shape up this game against Boston. You've got
Speaker 1: four and five home court advantage. We don't know where
Speaker 1: Indiana is going to end up. I think they've played
Speaker 1: way better than anyone anticipated after Victor Oladipo's season ending
Speaker 1: injury and the way Milwaukee and Toronto have played this season.
Speaker 1: You've got four, and you could say five, really good
Speaker 1: teams in the Eastern Conference. And as we talked about
Speaker 1: on the Sunday broadcast, you don't want to be the five. No,
Speaker 1: you absolutely though you don't want to be the four
Speaker 1: or the five, to be honest with you, You'd like
Speaker 1: to be in the two three, And there's a better
Speaker 1: path to get into the conference final. I think up
Speaker 1: there not diminishing those teams at all. But the other thing,
Speaker 1: and Brett didn't duck away from the question in the
Speaker 1: post practice scrum about playing Boston is not just another game.
Speaker 1: There's obviously a long standing rivalry. But the other thing
Speaker 1: is simplistic as it is when you're competing with teams
Speaker 1: in the conference and you play them, your win is
Speaker 1: their loss. I mean, the other nights you sit there
Speaker 1: and hope the team doesn't do well. This is a
Speaker 1: night like you control each other, you know, So this
Speaker 1: is going to be a Boston win and a Philly
Speaker 1: loss or vice versa, which is game everybody's looking for.
Speaker 1: So it's very significant. It's not just another game. It's
Speaker 1: a big, big game. It was amazing seeing right up
Speaker 1: to the end of the three o'clock trade deadline the
Speaker 1: other week, just the teams that were making moves and
Speaker 1: you're starting to think, who does what after this team
Speaker 1: does that? The Rafters acquiring Marcus All. I do want
Speaker 1: to ask you guys about Elton before we wrap up,
Speaker 1: but I also want to circle back to Brett. How
Speaker 1: much I mean you were I want to make sure
Speaker 1: I have this right. Two thousand and two was when
Speaker 1: you and Brett linked up and san Antonio San Antonio
Speaker 1: two three and that was re season, I think the
Speaker 1: start of his second go round with the Spurs because
Speaker 1: he was there for the one championship season and then
Speaker 1: went back. So what's different about Brett Brown? Now, what's
Speaker 1: the same from from what you can recall from those Well,
Speaker 1: the person is the same. That's the best and that's
Speaker 1: still his strength. And uh, he's he's not a good person,
Speaker 1: he's a great person. He does an incredible job I
Speaker 1: think relating with the players, which has become more and
Speaker 1: more important in terms of coaching everywhere, but particularly in
Speaker 1: the NBA. I think he's a great representative for the franchise.
Speaker 1: I think he's great for this city. I just think
Speaker 1: he handles it very very well. Some people might have
Speaker 1: been surprised, but they forget that he had been a
Speaker 1: head coach in Australia and he grew up in a
Speaker 1: coaching family. And when you look at his tree, I
Speaker 1: mean his father wasn't a good coach. His father was
Speaker 1: a great, great basketball coach. That's what he grew up with.
Speaker 1: There was no question what Brett was going to do
Speaker 1: from day one. He played for Rick Patino would be
Speaker 1: you that's a pretty good guy to play for and
Speaker 1: learn from. When he was down in Australia, he worked
Speaker 1: with Lindsay Gays, who's Andrew Gays's father, who's a legendary
Speaker 1: Olympic coach and former player in Australia. Then he goes
Speaker 1: and works for Greg Popovich for a whole bunch of years.
Speaker 1: So I mean you talk about you know, you look
Speaker 1: at somebody's resume, were they ready for the job. There's
Speaker 1: no question Brett was ready. People might not have realized.
Speaker 1: You know, you look at him, he still looks very young.
Speaker 1: He say, well, is he ready to be a head
Speaker 1: coach in the NBA. He was, he is, And I
Speaker 1: think almost as importantly the way he handled the losses
Speaker 1: those tough years when you know, Philly was processed whatever
Speaker 1: people want to call it, it showed how well he
Speaker 1: handled that and he still tried to be positive and
Speaker 1: kept the guys going, you know, and being competitive. So
Speaker 1: I just think if you if you sit back and
Speaker 1: even me, who's not objective, you would you just look
Speaker 1: at you know, Brett, here's his lineage. You've got to be,
Speaker 1: you know, not very bright to not have expected him
Speaker 1: to be this great a coach. It's always ever talked
Speaker 1: about his culture, and that, of course, I'm sure extends
Speaker 1: from what he's been exposed to over the course of
Speaker 1: his career. And when you're losing games, you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I understand all this positive talk in the culture. But
Speaker 1: now when you bring in guys like Jimmy Butler and
Speaker 1: a Tobias Harrison, you absorbed them. I mean it seems
Speaker 1: like so far, you know, there's still high emphasis on
Speaker 1: passing and sharing the ball and selflessness. It has been
Speaker 1: an amazing story. Then Elton Brand finds himself about two
Speaker 1: and a half years and moved from actually playing some
Speaker 1: games for Brett Brown being the general manager of this team.
Speaker 1: How fun do you think relationships and the ability to
Speaker 1: work that aspect of being in a front office can
Speaker 1: go to getting deals done? Mark, Hey, it's it's remark.
Speaker 1: I take back. PJ and I were in Las Vegas
Speaker 1: right in July and the seventy six ers were one
Speaker 1: of our first games, and I remember being in a
Speaker 1: hot gym and like, Oh, there's Elton Brand and then oh,
Speaker 1: isn't he the general manager of this team? And he
Speaker 1: just had a command And I think he had that
Speaker 1: as a player too. You know, he was very well
Speaker 1: respected in his playing days. But I think he has
Speaker 1: he's way ahead of the curve already for what he's
Speaker 1: doing and certainly what he did, uh, you know last
Speaker 1: week at the trade deadline as well. We said it
Speaker 1: on the broadcast on Sunday, not even just make a move.
Speaker 1: He made a series of moves. He made very bold
Speaker 1: moves for a first year general manager. And he doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to like confidence as he did not as well
Speaker 1: as No. I mean, the only negative Eb has is
Speaker 1: having gotten to Duke. Other than that, there's there's no
Speaker 1: question you know what an impressive person he is and
Speaker 1: how talented he is. And again you're talking a guy.
Speaker 1: Was he ready? Yeah, I think he's I mean, experience
Speaker 1: is a great teacher. Will he be a better GM
Speaker 1: in five years yeah, probably, But still the moves he's
Speaker 1: made you have to love. You talked about the word
Speaker 1: before that I thought was most important relationship. I think
Speaker 1: his relationship with Brett it has been and will be critical.
Speaker 1: And again, not everybody always holds up the Spurs as perfection,
Speaker 1: but when you do what they've done for as long
Speaker 1: as they've been able to do it, and the heart
Speaker 1: of that relationship is RCBU Freed and Greg Popovich. So
Speaker 1: Brett understands very well so does Elton than anybody else
Speaker 1: in the NBA. When you have that, because so many
Speaker 1: organizations in this league don't have that. You don't have
Speaker 1: the coaching staff in the front office tied together the
Speaker 1: way it appears eb and Brett are. So that's a
Speaker 1: great thing. Last thing seventy six for ceiling for this
Speaker 1: year will be if such and such happens, I'll pull
Speaker 1: it to you, guys. Well, I think the ceiling for
Speaker 1: everybody in the East is conference Championship. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors are just that good. Not that nobody's
Speaker 1: going to beat them, but it's hard enough, you know,
Speaker 1: to get to a seventh game and have a chance
Speaker 1: to beat them four times. Like we said earlier, I
Speaker 1: think this is there's a lot of stiff competition in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference, so just to make it to the
Speaker 1: finals will be impressive with this lot. And then the
Speaker 1: second part of your question is if these if these guys, Mesh,
Speaker 1: I think Tobias Harris already is showing he can. I
Speaker 1: think the bench guys as well, have given Brett Brown
Speaker 1: a new look at what he can do and some
Speaker 1: of the different rotations he could put out there. But
Speaker 1: if they keep this up post All Star Break, I think,
Speaker 1: to me, you got to say, to make the NBA
Speaker 1: Finals would not surprise me, but it will be very difficult,
Speaker 1: you know, to get past that second round and into
Speaker 1: the conference finals. Yeah, almost identical. I think if they
Speaker 1: get to the conference finals, that would be great year, period,
Speaker 1: regardless of what. Are they good enough to win the
Speaker 1: conference finals if they get there, Yes, they are. I
Speaker 1: agree with him. I don't think they're going to be
Speaker 1: whoever comes out of the West. But that's just a
Speaker 1: bias for the Western Conference. It's going to be interesting
Speaker 1: to see when the roadbox come up, you know, when
Speaker 1: somebody thinks he should have but I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it's been two it's been two games. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: gonna it's inevitable in this league, even in twenty seven
Speaker 1: games or however many games are left. It like all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, guys are struggling, or heaven forbid, there's
Speaker 1: an injury. So you gotta wait to see how you
Speaker 1: handle adversity. But if they stay healthy and they stay
Speaker 1: on the same page, they're going to be as good
Speaker 1: as going into the conference, going into the Eastern playoffs.
Speaker 1: They're as good as anybody. I mean, I would I
Speaker 1: would never go against him if things progress in a
Speaker 1: normal path going into April. Guys, it's been awesome. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much. Had to be here with you. Thanks some
Speaker 1: good wisdom seventy six Ers perspective from PJ. Carlissimo and
Speaker 1: Mark Kestershire of the NBA on ESPN Radio's top broadcasting
Speaker 1: crew in Town a couple of days earlier this week
Speaker 1: to cover a few of the Sixers games. Thanks to
Speaker 1: them for taking the time to talk and thanks to
Speaker 1: you as always for taking the time to listen. You
Speaker 1: can try to get one more episode of the podcast
Speaker 1: in before the All Star Game break. Then we'll be
Speaker 1: a little bit quiet for a few days before coming
Speaker 1: back and wrapping up for the home stretch of what
Speaker 1: has been a really fun and exciting and hopefully even
Speaker 1: more promising twenty eighteen nineteen season. Talk to you next time.
Speaker 1: See