Speaker 1: This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network
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Speaker 1: have the seventy Sixer's been up to and what could
Speaker 1: they still be in the event the NBA returns. Those
Speaker 1: are obviously two key questions surrounding the team since the
Speaker 1: season was suspended. This home stretch was going to be
Speaker 1: about getting everybody healthy and set it all seeming along.
Speaker 1: We're built for the playoffs. I was looking forward to
Speaker 1: actually seeing what that would look like for Ben Simmons status.
Speaker 1: He's going to be back and then it's just off
Speaker 1: to the releases to Joel and beats postseason potential. He
Speaker 1: can ramp up like no other. What he brings to
Speaker 1: our team, that's what it makes us a real competitor
Speaker 1: and contender. In we zoom with Sixers general manager Elton
Speaker 1: Brand on this episode of the broadcast, how you doing
Speaker 1: out there, seventy Sixers pod people, It's Brian Seltzer. Hope
Speaker 1: we're doing well and that you and your peeps are
Speaker 1: staying as safe and small aren't and healthy as possible
Speaker 1: as we continue to navigate these tricky times. Last we
Speaker 1: heard from Elton Brand, at least publicly, he too was
Speaker 1: navigating some tricky times. The circumstances were pretty surreal. It
Speaker 1: was March eleventh at the Center Mere moments after the
Speaker 1: NBA announced its decision to halt the season, the forty
Speaker 1: one year old general managers spoke at a quickly arranged
Speaker 1: press conference just outside the Sixers locker room that lasted
Speaker 1: all of two minutes. Brand Like everyone else reporters players,
Speaker 1: Brett Brown, who was seated next to him, was simply
Speaker 1: trying to wrap his mind around the news. I guess
Speaker 1: what do you think about the fact that the season
Speaker 1: has actually come out to the point where that has suspended. Um,
Speaker 1: we have great leadership in NBA follow their lead. Is
Speaker 1: important that the fans, players, coaching staff, our staff here
Speaker 1: at the Sixers, UM, you know, remain healthy and we
Speaker 1: do everything we can so we believe in a leadership
Speaker 1: in the league. Two months later, Brandon the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: find themselves in a groove of going about their demanding
Speaker 1: day to day remotely. In a conversation we published on
Speaker 1: May fifth, the second year general manager reflects on how
Speaker 1: he and the Sixers have adapted to unprecedented circumstances all
Speaker 1: while eagerly hoping to at some point continue their pursuit
Speaker 1: of a championship. EB it is great to see you
Speaker 1: zoom or by any other mechanism. Just nice to see
Speaker 1: the face. After a couple months, I see some facial hair.
Speaker 1: If people are listening this, they might not be able
Speaker 1: to see it, obviously, but there is some facial hair
Speaker 1: there a quarantine byproduct. I'm sure, right, absolutely, Brian, good
Speaker 1: to see two. Hope you and your family are healthy
Speaker 1: and safe. But yeah, some facial hair more greg protruding
Speaker 1: out than usual. But uh, you know how to teach
Speaker 1: myself how to do a haircut? I did okay job? Really?
Speaker 1: Did you yeah? Or did I do it okay job? Well,
Speaker 1: that's what a viewers to decide. If you I think
Speaker 1: it looks great? Who who did the execution? Did you
Speaker 1: really do it by your own hand? Or do you
Speaker 1: have some personal assistance with the fam at home? No,
Speaker 1: my wife and kids did not help. I did it
Speaker 1: on my own. I don't know what the back looks like.
Speaker 1: And he used the mirror and get that fancy. But
Speaker 1: it was getting really really rough in the in the
Speaker 1: quarantine age, so I had to shave it down I
Speaker 1: had to shave it down. I feel like, by today's standards,
Speaker 1: as long as it's presentable from the front and looks
Speaker 1: okay on a zoom or a team's call or anything
Speaker 1: like that, then you're in good shape. Right, I agree?
Speaker 1: I agree. Well, tell us for people out there who
Speaker 1: last they heard from you was the night the season
Speaker 1: went into suspension, how are you doing? Are you okay?
Speaker 1: Just from a lifestyle standpoint first and foremost, you know, lifestyle,
Speaker 1: it's been a lot of it's been a lot of ups,
Speaker 1: a few downs. You know, it's tough. No, it's tough.
Speaker 1: My wife she's been great picking me up. We talk
Speaker 1: every morning about, you know, how must see you having
Speaker 1: the tank. I have twenty, she can step up and
Speaker 1: do eighty. And if she has twenty, I can push
Speaker 1: for eighty. And we both don't have it. We'll figure
Speaker 1: it out along with the kids. But it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's been tough, along with work and everything else, because
Speaker 1: I had to set some boundaries. We have meetings and
Speaker 1: zoom meetings and WebEx and phone calls and I'm on
Speaker 1: committees and back to play and when we're gonna get
Speaker 1: back to play. Every single day so it's it's it's
Speaker 1: been a lot, but I've been getting adjusted and we
Speaker 1: are where we are. It sounds like you have a
Speaker 1: full day right now. Yeah, alluded to that to it earlier.
Speaker 1: We had to set some boundaries, you know, I had
Speaker 1: to say, hey, you know, let's enjoy part of a
Speaker 1: weekend at least, you know, let's end the zoom calls
Speaker 1: or the WebEx calls or the video conferences because we're
Speaker 1: trying to I'm talking to Adam Silver, the Commissioner, on
Speaker 1: GM agendas and return to action on a committee. We
Speaker 1: have the draft. I'm doing deep dives in the draft.
Speaker 1: Vince Roseman, as he did last year, is leading those
Speaker 1: scouting efforts with the draft. So you free agency and
Speaker 1: all these scenarios that we have to plan for because
Speaker 1: there's so much unknown. I feel like this is probably
Speaker 1: a subject we could talk about for hours, if not
Speaker 1: over the course of multiple days, but for as much
Speaker 1: as you can in this window of time that we have.
Speaker 1: Can you walk us through what you recall from when
Speaker 1: you found out the season was suspended to where things
Speaker 1: are now with the front office, how you guys built
Speaker 1: up the remote infrastructure to take care of the day
Speaker 1: to day that you guys need to do for a
Speaker 1: professional basketball team. Yeah, I've rewinded a little bit further. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I was in California for the Clipper game,
Speaker 1: Laker game, Golden State Warrior game, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if they were testing before us, but there were many
Speaker 1: more cases and it was more of a hotbed at
Speaker 1: the time. So when I got back to the Northeast,
Speaker 1: I had a different sense of what was going on.
Speaker 1: So I decided made the decision to take the scouts
Speaker 1: off of the road a little earlier than some other teams,
Speaker 1: and we went more to video work right there for
Speaker 1: the draft and for free agency. It's like, we don't
Speaker 1: know where this thing is going, but if there's a chance,
Speaker 1: I'd rather um, you know, falling on the side of safety.
Speaker 1: So we took the scouts off the road. This is
Speaker 1: before the NCAA was canceled, before all the high school
Speaker 1: tournaments were canceled and things of that nature, or the
Speaker 1: All American games you're canceled. Um. And then that night
Speaker 1: I was just just in shock because you don't know
Speaker 1: what what's going to happen. Um. You know, we rely
Speaker 1: on the leadership of the n Nbaum and they were
Speaker 1: going with the knowledge that they had, you know at
Speaker 1: the time. So we were the first league to put
Speaker 1: the season on the hiatus, which you made me proud,
Speaker 1: and then we just went to work from there. How
Speaker 1: do we make sure our players are are in a
Speaker 1: safe environment? How do we make sure that their k
Speaker 1: cared for? Not just physically, but you know, this can
Speaker 1: take a mental toll on you, especially you're a young
Speaker 1: person used to having friends and traveling and being around
Speaker 1: basketball your entire life. Um, you know fur Con these
Speaker 1: his family still in Turkey, Like, how do we interact
Speaker 1: and keep him engaged and mentally, mentally engaged and just
Speaker 1: just healthy all the way around. I can't imagine that
Speaker 1: there is any playbook in any line of work or
Speaker 1: walk of life that could have prepared a person, a team,
Speaker 1: society for something like this. What did you fall back upon?
Speaker 1: How did you adapt and adjust to this on the fly? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it SAIDs a human level, Like you said, society, It's
Speaker 1: like it's it's bigger than sports, it's bigger than basketball. Um,
Speaker 1: just trying to relate to everything from a human level.
Speaker 1: What do you need as a as a human, as
Speaker 1: a person, What can we do just to make your
Speaker 1: transition with all this as easy as possible. And then
Speaker 1: on the other side, you know, as a fan, like
Speaker 1: I'm chomping at the bit to figure out a way
Speaker 1: to you know, have some some semblance of sports in
Speaker 1: our season and the team we put together and competing,
Speaker 1: and so I look forward to the day when it's
Speaker 1: deemed safe for us to do that. Amen to that.
Speaker 1: From what I remember the night of the Pistons game
Speaker 1: at the Center, I don't think I really even paid
Speaker 1: attention to one bit of the game itself, because right
Speaker 1: after tip it seemed like there was this scroll on
Speaker 1: social media on my Twitter feed of development after development.
Speaker 1: It was first Tom Hanks and his wife tested positive.
Speaker 1: Then you saw reports coming out of Oklahoma City and
Speaker 1: what was going on there, and it just seemed like,
Speaker 1: very quickly, there was no doubt about it. The league
Speaker 1: needed to take action and take action as quickly as
Speaker 1: it could. Yeah, now we were I was on that
Speaker 1: same path, says that the Tom Hanks. I didn't know
Speaker 1: about that one til later. But we're following what's going
Speaker 1: on with Oklahoma City, you know, against the Jazz, and
Speaker 1: you know where they're going with it, and the game's postponed,
Speaker 1: and what's going on? There's another game? I think the
Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings are playing the public are they're gonna play?
Speaker 1: What does this mean for us? And then post game,
Speaker 1: you know, I got the news that we're putting the
Speaker 1: season on a hiatus for postponing the season and just
Speaker 1: had to address the players. And I just just went
Speaker 1: in that locker room, and the unknowns are still unknown,
Speaker 1: so I didn't know what were where we were going,
Speaker 1: how long this would last. And I'm glad the way
Speaker 1: the league handled it all for fans who might not
Speaker 1: be familiar with how you guys communicate, but also at
Speaker 1: the same time not asking you to spill too many secrets.
Speaker 1: How do you get the message out to players in
Speaker 1: a remote world like for instance us In our world
Speaker 1: and the business side of the seventy six ers, we
Speaker 1: use Microsoft Teams and Slack, that sort of thing. So
Speaker 1: how do you stay in touch with the players on
Speaker 1: a regular basis? Yeah, so we do, of course, you know,
Speaker 1: the org side, we have Slack, we have teams players,
Speaker 1: we use more video conference and tools sometimes like Zoom
Speaker 1: or WebEx or FaceTime. I'm a little old school. I'll
Speaker 1: just call them kind of get permission to FaceTime. I'm
Speaker 1: still I'm still in the era. This is weird to
Speaker 1: have someone just FaceTime me out there blue like I
Speaker 1: need permission, Like, hey, then if you want to FaceTime
Speaker 1: and talk, we can do that. Players have had happy
Speaker 1: hours that I haven't been invited to, but they've They've
Speaker 1: been getting together on our own and Brett. Brett's been leading,
Speaker 1: you know, with his staff. They're preparing as you know,
Speaker 1: the season's coming back and we have to be ready
Speaker 1: for a regular season or playoffs. There are two three
Speaker 1: times a week they're getting together. They're on the video
Speaker 1: conference and technology working and we do something with the
Speaker 1: players probably every two weeks that we just get together.
Speaker 1: I pop on, I don't stay too long. Basically, give
Speaker 1: a message and an update and let them go. You
Speaker 1: alluded to this dynamic and this tricky balancing act that
Speaker 1: you guys are currently in the midst of. Right now
Speaker 1: with the season in limbo, you have the evidence of
Speaker 1: about two thirds of the season to fall back on,
Speaker 1: but now it's during this hiatus. If play were to resume,
Speaker 1: there is projecting out as far as what might be.
Speaker 1: How do you account for the layoff and whatever ripple
Speaker 1: effects that might have. So I guess my question is
Speaker 1: how do you do it? How do you strike that
Speaker 1: balance and walk that line? Like what are the pieces
Speaker 1: of evidence you're trying to piece together here? Yeah, So
Speaker 1: it's it's strictly scenario planting. There's there's nothing that we
Speaker 1: can't be surprised by. So it's we don't know when
Speaker 1: the draft is, but we're assuming that the draft is
Speaker 1: going to happen, So we're preparing as you know it's
Speaker 1: going to be in June. We don't know when we're
Speaker 1: going to return, but I think we are going to return,
Speaker 1: So we're preparing like business is usual when we return.
Speaker 1: This is what we're gonna need. This is what the
Speaker 1: players will need to ramp up and get ready. Everyone's
Speaker 1: gonna need ramp up time, UM to get back to
Speaker 1: to UM, you know, physically fit state that you can
Speaker 1: compete at an NBA level. UM, you know, free agency,
Speaker 1: what happens at this what happens is that. So it's
Speaker 1: just a lot of scenario planning so that we don't
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Speaker 1: Elton Brand at thirty nine and twenty six when play stopped,
Speaker 1: where did you think the team was at? And I
Speaker 1: think that the season was incompletely you know, we knew
Speaker 1: we need to get our players healthy. Down to stretch.
Speaker 1: You know, Joel was out, Ben was out. You know,
Speaker 1: keep mashing. We have some really good games. We proved
Speaker 1: that we could beat anybody. So this home stretch was
Speaker 1: going to be about that, just getting everybody healthy. Um,
Speaker 1: we said it all season long. We're built for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I was looking forward to actually, you know, seeing what
Speaker 1: that would look like. It's funny because even though the
Speaker 1: wins weren't there, on that West Coast trip, it felt
Speaker 1: like there were some good things that were happening. The
Speaker 1: vibes were positive, there was energy it seemed like not
Speaker 1: just demeanor wise the guys off the court, but in
Speaker 1: how they played. Then Joel comes back for the Detroit game,
Speaker 1: has a great night. Did you see things trending in
Speaker 1: the right direction at that point in time, it was
Speaker 1: that's that's what you want. You want to hit that
Speaker 1: stage where you know, all cylinders are flowing shape. Broke
Speaker 1: out against the Clippers, had an amazing game. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: be Sacramento. You know, a game or two after that,
Speaker 1: after a good battle with the Lakers, great spirited battle. Um,
Speaker 1: Joel comes back, has an amazing game at home. Um.
Speaker 1: So we were just kind of putting the pieces together.
Speaker 1: Ben Um, his rehab is going well, so when it's
Speaker 1: time to ramp up, I'm encouraged and I see him
Speaker 1: being able to ramp up and be right along with
Speaker 1: his teammates when it's when did we do return to play?
Speaker 1: So but we were trending in the right direction. So
Speaker 1: that's a little disheartening. But of course what we're dealing
Speaker 1: with is like we talked about, as bigger than basketball.
Speaker 1: But as a fan, um me being a fan of
Speaker 1: the game, it's it's a little disheartening. I wanted to
Speaker 1: see it. I know this is probably a very obvious
Speaker 1: question and it may have an obvious answer, but the
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons that we saw this season before the nerv
Speaker 1: and pigment, if he comes back, what does that do
Speaker 1: for this team? You know, it's he's going to be back,
Speaker 1: and then it's it's just off to the racist. You know,
Speaker 1: he's his defensive level. We went back to Brett and
Speaker 1: I we were talking about pre All Star Break in
Speaker 1: the game against the Clippers at home and the defense
Speaker 1: he played against Kauai and that level of intensity like
Speaker 1: that was high level. I don't want to even say
Speaker 1: first round playoff basket, but I was high level. You
Speaker 1: multiple round playoff basketball in the atmosphere and that energy
Speaker 1: that he brought in, that skill set that he brought,
Speaker 1: and again Joel being healthy and having our full compliment
Speaker 1: of our team, Shakespeaw latise growth for con coming into
Speaker 1: his own in the season that he had. So we're
Speaker 1: looking to all put it together. What do you think
Speaker 1: triggered that next step defensively for Ben? Does it go
Speaker 1: back as far as what happened this time last year
Speaker 1: against the Raptors and how he was challenged with obviously
Speaker 1: facing quiet in that series and then the series before
Speaker 1: that against Brooklyn, he had to go up against some
Speaker 1: really good guards in that series. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: his competitive nature. You know, before you know him missing
Speaker 1: these games. I think he's missed one game last season.
Speaker 1: You know, it says he's such an elite competitor, elite
Speaker 1: young player, young talent, and he just wants to win.
Speaker 1: He wants the team to win, and he wants to
Speaker 1: do whatever he has to do to have the team win.
Speaker 1: The incredible thing about Joel is that he can have
Speaker 1: games like forty nine and fourteen, like what he did
Speaker 1: in that home game against Atlanta, miss a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: come back and then drop thirty and put up fourteen
Speaker 1: rebounds against the Detroit Pistons. Where did you guys think
Speaker 1: that he was at right before the season was put
Speaker 1: on pause. Yeah, he was at that stage where you know,
Speaker 1: bet against Joel and b he was at that flock
Speaker 1: in focus. That's that's special. And he's so talented and
Speaker 1: when he brings that, you know what he brings to
Speaker 1: our team and to our court. That's that's what makes
Speaker 1: us a real competitor and contender. In my opinion, we
Speaker 1: talked a lot going back to last summer after the
Speaker 1: acquisitions and the signings, and at the start of this
Speaker 1: year of this starting five and its potential. But as
Speaker 1: the season unfolded, we saw some really encouraging and strong
Speaker 1: player development success stories. Whether it was someone like a
Speaker 1: fur Con Cork, Moise Matisse, Thible right off the bat
Speaker 1: jumping in and doing what he did, and then you
Speaker 1: referenced Shake Milton in the way that he was coming
Speaker 1: on in relief of Ben Simmons right before the outbreak
Speaker 1: of Corona. What do you think was helpful to putting
Speaker 1: some of these players on the right path as far
Speaker 1: as the player development standpoint. Um, you know, I give
Speaker 1: a lot of kudos to Brett Brown and the player
Speaker 1: development crew for what they've done. They always had the
Speaker 1: players ready. You know, we didn't know Josh would miss
Speaker 1: as many games as he missed, or you know, for
Speaker 1: Batist to have to step up or bend to miss
Speaker 1: any games. He was really durable for Shake to step up.
Speaker 1: But once they got their opportunity that they were, they
Speaker 1: were they were engaged, they was zoned in, and they
Speaker 1: were they were ready, and they stepped up. They really
Speaker 1: stepped up and that's what you want, added a young player,
Speaker 1: so now they have a taste of it and they
Speaker 1: only want more. They can't wait to get back so
Speaker 1: that they can continue to grow and seize the moment.
Speaker 1: Do you have any sense of what it could look
Speaker 1: like from a team standpoint on your side? For a
Speaker 1: perfect world, let's say all clear is given for play
Speaker 1: to resume somehow, Just how the gradual bringing everyone back
Speaker 1: and then getting the team ready from a physical and
Speaker 1: mental standpoint, training wise to resume the demands of the
Speaker 1: most important time of the season. Essentially, it's it's hard
Speaker 1: to speculate. I'm on GM calls weekly. I'm going to
Speaker 1: you know, committee that we have separate calls and return
Speaker 1: to action to return to play, We're going to study
Speaker 1: what happened during the lockout, so it's gonna need a
Speaker 1: ramp up period. We're going to make sure we have
Speaker 1: ample times so that that there's no setbacks. That's our
Speaker 1: goal once it's teams safety, even play. For as much
Speaker 1: as you want to bring the people listening out there
Speaker 1: into the world of Elton brand in quarantine, I may
Speaker 1: throw a couple quick hitting questions at you right now.
Speaker 1: Best thing you've read so far. It could be an article,
Speaker 1: a book, anything. There's some really great articles that I
Speaker 1: read about just you know, you're like your moral bucket list.
Speaker 1: That was a great article. Um reading The Infinite Game
Speaker 1: by Simon sinek Um. What's that? What's that? Other one?
Speaker 1: Outward mindset that Rob Nusson gave me? And he and
Speaker 1: Scott O'Neill actually meant both mentioned in it? Um. Those
Speaker 1: are those are the two that I point to that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been really focused on those. Those are
Speaker 1: kind of main ones I've been focused on. And there's
Speaker 1: some good YouTube videos and and things like that that
Speaker 1: just some make you laugh because you need a good laugh,
Speaker 1: and some make you think, like, what's the world gonna
Speaker 1: be once we get through this? Oh? In Range, I've
Speaker 1: read Range, a book called Range that was really good.
Speaker 1: It's about being a specialist versus you're having a lot
Speaker 1: of other tools. The best thing you've watched, the best
Speaker 1: thing I've watched, I'd say a show called Nailed It.
Speaker 1: I wish I could say the last dance, but I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it yet. I'm gonna binge watch it, watch
Speaker 1: all those ten episodes or reach out to David Fox
Speaker 1: I can watch all episodes at once. But a show
Speaker 1: called Nailed It. It's it's on Netflix, and my wife
Speaker 1: and I took the TV off the wall, so the
Speaker 1: kids have to create for a month and on yeah
Speaker 1: May first they first, um, first time back to TV.
Speaker 1: We watched Harry Potter the movie, which they haven't seen.
Speaker 1: My son's eleven. He's into the series now, he's read
Speaker 1: all the books. And we watched the show called Nailed It.
Speaker 1: That is very funny on Netflix. Tremendous anything that you've
Speaker 1: nostalgically done, just you know, now that there is a
Speaker 1: little bit more free time for as much as you
Speaker 1: can get of it. Um, just a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: looking at pictures, you know, spending time with my wife.
Speaker 1: We'll sit through some some pictures and family and by accident,
Speaker 1: we've we've went through some of her old electronics or
Speaker 1: some of my old electronics, like we have the first iPhone.
Speaker 1: We have computers from almost twenty years ago, like Sony
Speaker 1: vayos and this stuff still around. That kind of work
Speaker 1: still so that was cool, but that that kind of
Speaker 1: butt that uh, that nostalgia when just vacation pictures when
Speaker 1: we were traveling, I talked to my daughter about, yeah,
Speaker 1: where we're gonna go, you know, once we can move around,
Speaker 1: and she's like Paris and I want to have cheese
Speaker 1: and breads. She's never been to Paris, by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm wanna have this cheese and bread and you know,
Speaker 1: things like that. So I'm just just trying to create
Speaker 1: good memories through this time and being grateful with my family.
Speaker 1: I never would have thought it sounds like the Brand
Speaker 1: family might be a hoarding family. I would not have
Speaker 1: pegged you for that type of guy. That's a mix,
Speaker 1: you know, like you know, it's like the centralism slash party.
Speaker 1: Why don't we wrap it up on this note. At
Speaker 1: some point basketball is going to return. We don't know when,
Speaker 1: how soon or how long. M but what influenced what
Speaker 1: power do you see the platform of It could be
Speaker 1: the seventy six ers, it could be the NBA, it
Speaker 1: could be sports, what influence What power do you think
Speaker 1: sports will have in bringing society the world back to
Speaker 1: some semblance of normal and hopefully this is all in
Speaker 1: the past and everyone's safe. Yeah, once it's deemed um safe,
Speaker 1: I think the platform of sports will continue to bring
Speaker 1: people together, you know, have an outlet to be together,
Speaker 1: to to laugh, to to root, to cry, to yell um.
Speaker 1: You know, just just that, just that human need of
Speaker 1: togetherness and just you know, relating and standing for something
Speaker 1: bigger than yourself. You know, you love your city, you
Speaker 1: love your team, you want to root um, And I
Speaker 1: think that's what sports sports does and it gives us
Speaker 1: as a society, and uh, you know what, we need
Speaker 1: that right now, once it's once it's deemed safe. And listen,
Speaker 1: between seventy six ers ownership and your players as well,
Speaker 1: there have been many instances of people within the organization
Speaker 1: taking the league trying to help do something um to
Speaker 1: bring people together and and help people get back on track.
Speaker 1: Absolutely very prideful than that, and that's the people we
Speaker 1: have in this organization and in this locker room. Elton,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for the time. Great seeing you through
Speaker 1: a computer screen. Great talking to you. Stay safe, Thanks Brian.
Speaker 1: Great hearing from Elton Brand what's been going on within
Speaker 1: the seventy six ers front office, what he and his
Speaker 1: family have been binging, and I was going about, most importantly,
Speaker 1: trying to lead in a time of crisis. Appreciate him
Speaker 1: taking a few minutes to talk and you're taking a
Speaker 1: few minutes to listen. That'll do it for this episode
Speaker 1: of the broadcast. Be on the lookout for some more
Speaker 1: fresh content here on the seventy six Ers podcast network feed.
Speaker 1: Later on this week, we'll be releasing the latest installment
Speaker 1: of our posted up mini Caast series profile on Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: so you don't want to miss that. Plus, on a
Speaker 1: new episode of Tom's Talks, Tom mc ginnis talks with
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