Top Takeaways, Moments From the Season's First Half

build it out. We'll look back on the biggest moments, themes, and developments from the unofficial first half of the season, plus talk to a kid who's helped lead the ttp cause at a local high school on this episode of the broadcast, what's going on out there? Seventy six Ers pive people happy, All Star Break, seventy Sixers arriving at the break on a pretty good note, right, swept a three game homestand culminating with a big win over the LA Clippers on Tuesday nights and a week. It's certainly

a long period of time in the NBA. I mean you think of the tone surrounding the Sixers when they got home from that winless owned four road trip, and this isn't to say that anyone should look past that, but come back home get three wins against a couple of quality teams Memphis and the Clippers also beat the struggling Chicago Bulls, and right now the Sixers, all things considered, they're doing all right. We're going to revisit some of the big moments from the unofficial first half of the

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shows we might have in the work. So I'll be giving some reminders about that as we move towards April the first All right, stepping back, surface level view, high level, big picture takeaways. Right now about the seventy six Ers. They played fifty five games, they have twenty seven games to go. They're thirty four and twenty one. They are in fifth place in the Eastern Conference, just one and a half games behind the fourth place Miami Heat. The Sixers are the best home team in the NBA with

a record of twenty five and two. They are among the league leaders in defense as we check in as it stands at the All Star break, the Sixers are

fourth in the NBA in defensive rating. Yes, there's the nine and nineteen road record, not to be excused, not to be bypassed, but again, I think big picture, there's a lot to feel good about in respect of the Sixers, especially when you account for the fact that they have at least one win, if not more than one, and above that, some convincing wins against the top four teams in each Conference in the East, that's the Bucks, the Raptors,

the Celtics, and the Heat. By the way, you think the Atlantic Division could be a little bit more difficult, right, I mean, how about that you have three teams out of the Atlantic and the top five of the East, and then the Sixers have also beaten at least once Los Angeles Lakers for Nuggets, the LA Clippers, and the Utah Jazz, which are the one through four teams out West.

So I think that even though the four game road trip was a tough taste to have in the mouth, the Sixers came back home, did what they needed to do, and they built some momentum going into the All Star

Game break. So I want to revisit some of the top moments, at least to me, from this unofficial first half of the season, and I think we have to start in the Pacific Northwest Portland, Oregon, November second, the seventy sixers off to a great start and they played a game that in recent history has been one of the most memorable for the seventy Sixers. And wouldn't you know that the hero who emerged on that night is a guy who has been tearing it up as of late.

Richardson on the drive here the lane, back out to Ennis three. Nope, he's gonna step into the left wing area, back out to Josh for three. It's god. Josh Richardson knocked out of three, the tenth made trouble of the game by the Sixers, and it's now a three point game. Fifty seconds to go. Josh Richardson in the lay back out to alp he tries by one man in the my Hey Chapton. L. Harford makes it a one point game. Hey, right hand throwd ass Simmons looking hark Bots at the quarter.

He's open, he shoots it. It's good for God, Carkbot. It's a shot to put the sections of the day. Portland has four tenths of a second. It's a one point lead, like even like still, I don't know how to feel, you know, how to act. It was like the biggest shot in my career, you know. But I knew that H. L. Horford, he's gonna set a good pig and then trying to get me open, you know. And then that's why I enough the game. I got him back to make the shot, you know, and then

I was wide open. I just let it fly and then I made it. That was also whos comeback? You know, uh from comeback from double digits, you know, Prtland lighting made a lot of shots and then from Who's comeback to make the like buzzer better and they get the

w's like incredible. It's like a precursor perhaps of things to come for fur Con cork Mose going off for the game winner eleven points at Portland in November second, which was the final win for the seventy sixers in their winning streak of five straight games to start the season. But Furkon played well on the rest of that West Coast trip. He also had a twenty point game the

following game on the road against the Phoenix Suns. And over the course of this season in which the seventy sixers have been trying to figure out what to do in their wing rotation, whether it's with Furkon, Matisse, Thybel James and it's the third when he was here, Furkon has had really good flashes, especially since the calendar flipped to two twenty. There was a twenty four point game at home against the Chicago Bulls, which you're thinking, like,

how does furkn top that? Well, of course, a month later, with the Sixers coming back home after that winless four game road trip, needing some sort of shot in the arm, furk goes crazy for thirty four against the Memphis Grizzlies, following that up with a thirty one point performance against these Chicago Bulls right before the Clippers came to town

for the final game before the break. So for me, Furkon cork Mos not just with the game winner in Portland being a great story, but also the fact that that was an indicator that this would be a different type of fur Con cork Mos perhaps this season as he's back for the Sixers for his third year. And hey, I mean you go back to last spring and it was looking like, and I think fur Con would be the first to tell you this, he wasn't going to be back. He even signed a deal, a tentative deal

with a team in his home country of Turkey. But things just had a way of working themselves out. Sixers had a need to film and Furkon was their guy, and he, to me, has been one of the truly great stories from the first half of the season. Moving along in chronological order, we will go to December twelfth

at guard. Another signature highlight in my mind from the first half of the season, Sixers had a big game against the Boston Celtics, and front and center was a guy who certainly has been much discussed this season, the one and only Joel Embiid. Now. Up to that point, Joel had had some noteworthy games. He had the thirty six point game in the two point went against the

Atlanta Hawks in the third game of the season. He had a thirty three and sixteen game against the Sacramento Kings twenty twenty game not too long before the Boston game right after Thanksgiving against the Washington Wizards. But Boston was a national spotlight game on TNT at TD Garden, first time the Sixers were there, and I remember the biggest thing that stood out to me was Joel's demeanor

before the game. After shooting around, he had some very candid comments to reporters, which I thought set the tone own for what he would ultimately do that night. What's your thoughts about Charles Barkley and Shack saying about criticizing you for your game? Um, I'm in is Um you know that that's what they do. Um? You know, Um, maybe that white Uh maybe, um, but I do think that why I think I need to you know, being more aggressive. Um, just you know, just look to impose,

impose myself, just look to dominant. I think the whole season I haven't done that. Um. And then you can't see, uh the ways affected my efficiency and my stats. So you know, I guess I need to go back to having fun and just dominie. Then but I get what they're saying. Then I think that white man, Um, I gotta make a change. And what did Joel do that evening against the Boston Celtics. Jayle Brown trying to stay connected with the bias over to Joel the three. It's

in the year, it's got being knocked out of three. Hello, yeah, he waves his fist. He's having fun and Boston it throw ahead of Hayward. Hayward tracks it down eighteen seconds ago. It's a four point game in the Tights. Hey, black boy be had the Sixers had a ball. Oh man be put the block out tice and the Sixers gotta beat Boston. Did you feel good from the game, was amal? You felt like you had uh? Yeah, the foek warter Uh Uh, you're not having been the closer that these

guys haven't been admitted to be on the whole season. Uh, you know, I just had that the portunity and they can find they can fitting me. And you know, I put out a lot of my teammates because the whole game, uh, you know, they made a lot of shots. So he kind of put Boston in. Um, you know, they had to choose between you know, quickly double seeming me or because I was going to kick it out and all know that I'm a William passer and we made that

made shot, So he made it easier for me. I think all the stuff that he has been through recently to me, the way he handled it personally, I'm proud of him. He handled it like an adult. He handled it with a humility and owned some of it and then came out and responded in a very dramatic way. And you know, the numbers speak pretty much for themselves.

But there was other stuff internally going on with like leadership and instruction to his teammates and stuff being stead at halftime that that flipped him over the top two for me, one of his better games since he has

been a Philadelphia seventy six. Joel's final line at the end of the evening thirty eight points on twelve twenty one, shooting two for three from three, got to the line fourteen times, made all of his foul shots except for two thirteen boards, six assists vintage prime Joel Embiid, I'm still continue to rack my mind. To me, that was his best performance. That has been his best performance of this season so far. Tight game. He was the closer, he rose the occasion. He backed up some of his talk.

That is the Joel Embiid that you know. I think it might be a little bit unreasonable to expect the numbers like that each and every game, But just the mindset, the demeanor, the purpose determination that without question is what you're looking for. I lied, I said I was gonna go in chronological order. I want to backtrack and do one game out of order. That'll move along in chronological

order by dates. Let's go to December eighth, seventy Sixers against the Toronto Raptors at the Center and the Sixers not too long before that had lost by five at Scotia Bank Arena, a game that you know it was. It was a bomber the Sixers. They played the Raptors tough, only to become a little bit unglued in the final minutes. So the Sixers were looking to get one back against the Raptors, and they found a most inspiring effort from a most promising rookie. Matis Tible had himself a game

against Toronto. Here's a steal by Batist in Asiakaba slamatiste fiball rocks around want to play. The rookie is doing it at both ends of the floor. The Simmons in the corner up top of Tise, three ball rights. I got it. Back to back triples by the rook and time out Toronto and they love it. At Philadelphia, they're on their feet. The Sixers are leading by eighteen. Batist, thank you for joining us. Congratulations, great game, great shooting, great defense, and a huge win for your team tonight

over Toronto. Your thoughts in general, I think it was big for us to get this one back, especially the way we played in their place. I think it was good for us to get this win. The awesome thing about Thible's contributions not only did it help the Sixers defeat the Raptors by six, but it was on the heels of a scoreless game, he only played eight minutes in Thibal the day before, when the Sixers whacked the

Cavaliers by forty seven. He responds by coming out for twenty point performance, hitting five of his eight threes, and then Thible fouled it up with thirteen points a couple days later at home against the Denver Nuggets. So obviously the defense for Thibal has been consistent for the most part throughout this year. He leads all rookies in steals. But you know, is it easy to be drawn to

point production and three point shooting. Sure, But I think that Toronto game was important because it just it gave you, perhaps to a little bit of an extreme, especially at this stage of Thibal's career, a glimpse at what the vision, the ultimate vision for the this guy is three d. He was knocking down his perimeter shots. Again, I don't know if you can really expect five three pointers a game, even down the road long term. That's a lot to ask.

But Matisse Thyble in that game, the Sixers so kind of desperately needed to win against the Toronto Raptors, just to put everyone's minds at ease, get the monkey off the back, and Thible answered in a big spot at home, defending, getting out on the break, and then also knocking down some three point shots. Another one of my favorite games from the first half of the season. You can't talk about the first half of the season, of course, without

revisiting Christmas Day at the Center. Seventy Sixers had not hosted a Christmas Day game since the late nineteen eighties. Nineteen eighty eight, in fact, was the last time it went down, so there was great build up in excitement for this to begin with. Well, then you throw in the fact that you have the reigning MVP, Janna Santa to Coompo in the house owned by the Way, his team, the Milwaukee Bucks, they just so happened to be the best team in the NBA this year. Throw that in

the pot stirred up. Mix all those ingredients together and you have a fantastic setting. On the signature date of the NBA's regular season calendar, December twenty fifth, the seventy Sixers did not disappoint. It was a relatively competitive game after a quarter, but the Sixers blew things open after that. Richardson of the ball five on the clock, josh Ronna screen Contaton blocks up up high it beat, picks it up, fires from deep eddin Joel and being with the clock twindling,

knocks down another grade Sixers by eight. Simmons on the run. Simmons the Josh three ball right side in the air. Head's gone again. Another triple, and the Sixers leave the Milwaukee Bucks by nineteen points and beat on top he fakes the three Middleton's Garden Middleton's involve difficult to hear you well with the right hand shot, oh man, beautiful little doctor j Esk going right up twenty nine for a beat would play there are probably considering the fact

that it was Christmas Day. Do you feel like this was your best game as a team so far this season? Yeah, for sure. Obviously you played the best similar league. So we came out. We showed that, you know, to ups and down. We showed that, you know, we've vidd there. We see got a long way to go, obviously, but

we've and we're gonna keep on getting better. Tobias Harris with a really nice game against the Bucks, twenty two points, five three pointers, helping the seventy sixers roll against Milwaukee, giving them just their fifth loss at that point in time, Joel Embiid had thirty one and eleven. He knocked down

three three pointers. Al Horford a double double, fifteen points, fourteen assists for Ben Simmons and Josh Richardson, with eighteen points for con Quork Miles with sixteen off the bench, Sixers did well, holding Yannisana Kumpo to eighteen on just eight for twenty seven shooting. It was just a great performance by the Sixers and one that just inspired so much hope about the potential for this team moving down

the road. Now, after Christmas, the Sixers they have been different, and even with the three game home winning streak right before the All Star Break, I think you'd still say the same. I know the team would like to go out there and show it has the ability to be a similar team on the road that we've seen in

terms of the version of themselves at home. But yeah, since Christmas, the Sixers, they've been battling to regain the type of momentum that we saw consistently throughout the first what would that have been two months of the season. So following Christmas, the Sixers went on the road. They endured a four game losing streak on a four game trip,

came back home, got wins over OKC and Boston. In the OKAC game, of course, Joel Embiid suffered that really unsight leave broken left finger, and he would go on to miss the next nine games. But during that stretch, Ben Simmons he was having an awesome year before then, But man, did he step up, take his game to the next level, show tremendous leadership while playing some of the best basketball of his career. And in no game was that more apparent than the seventy six Ers January

fifteenth victory over Brooklyn. Simmons breaking free in the main reverse with Meal jam want to play my Ben Simmons? Are you kidding me? A spectaculars lab Now the Sixers big trip up by seven, Benny had Simmons scores it again. Simmons over Joe Harris and was slumped shoulders and upturned folbs. Harris turning to the bench and to Jared Allen like, what, who's helping out? Simmons has got thirty four? Can you tell before games when he might have a game like this? Um?

I wish I could say, I couldn't and I can't. We learned that he was Conference Player of the week during this game. I would have given him that just for a second half of this game, but he was He was great. What do you think has been the key to your growth as a player? A man of coaches saying, how dominant you're playing. What has been the key to you're kind of growing your game? Just staying locked in. I'm taking a day at the time. I know you know it's not going to happen overnight. That's

stay on course, stay locked in. I'm trusting my team, leasing my coaches. Ben Simmons absolutely insane at Barclay Center, helping the Sixers to a one seventeen one eleven Martin Luther King Day matinee victory over the nets. Thirty four points for Simmons ten or fourteen from the line. He only missed two of his fourteen shots, twelve boards, twelve assists, five steals, and two blocks shots. Shouldn't remember to look

this up before hitting record, but I am. If I'm not mistaken, I think that Ben has been the only player in NBA history to hit some of those statistical minimums the points, the rebounds, the assist, the steals, in the blocks in the same game. Just crazy. Rang the bell afterwards. His leadership on full display, and it was a game, perhaps the best game in a series of awesome games from Ben Simmons while Joel embid was out

for nine games. The final game the seventy Sixers played without Embiid before his most recent return was perhaps the most anticipated date on the Sixers home schedule. It was January twenty fifth. It was a Saturday night, eight thirty ESPN ABC primetime game at the Center. Everyone from the mother Ship was there. You had Rachel Nichols and the Jump, You had Jalen Rose, you had Mark Jackson, Jeff Van Gundy,

Mike bring the whole thing. I mean, ESPN totally blows out its coverage for those primetime games on Saturday nights at eight thirty, and the seventy Sixers proceeded to a Sally blow out Lebron and the Lakers. Harris on the drive goose but can't con Tatum head. Harris knocks it down with a right hand tramp time out Los Angeles to bias. Harris with twenty three points. Had he is fired up, he is parking in a good way at the Sixers crowd. Simmons with an outside right left hand

dribble Green right there. Now, Bed turns the Downland goes in, head, lays it up head good bet Simmons on Danny Green, he would not be the nyed and the Sixers have built up a fourteen point ly Harris on the move against Danny Green in the lane, turns right hand shot, ribbing around and good and Dad, I'll do it. The seventy Sixers aren't gonna beat the Lakers here in Philadelphia.

Definitely knew the type of team we were going up against and how dominant they can be, and how we needed to really come back that on our side, and you know, God good looks and was looking to really go off a lot of the mismatches that I got in a lot of the switches that was brought to me on some I'm gonna pick a role. So definitely fun to start on aggressive mindset, but also a lot of things were coming my way a little bit earlier today.

The seventy Sixers led for forty two and a half minutes in that forty eight minute game, and the Lakers that was just their tenth loss of the season. Obviously, with their talent and Lebron and ad and all that, such a great measuring stick for the seventy sixers without Joel and b to see what they could do, and the Sixers played outstanding basketball. Simmons had twenty eight and ten Tobias Harris with twenty nine. The Sixers knocked down

thirteen threes. They shot fifty two percent for the game. The Lakers only six for thirty one from outside the arc. Yeah, Lebron James and Anthony Davis they got there, as they combined for sixty points. But other than that, Danny Green, nothing,

Avery Bradley, nothing Contavious called Pope held in check. Just awesome game for the seventy sixers, obviously there was just to use a phrase like unfortunate tragedy doesn't even come close to being appropriate for what happened the following day after that game, the news of Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and seven of the people dying in the helicopter crash in southern California, which you know, listen. Obviously that struck

Southern California, Lakers fans all that stuff immensely hard. But it was It's something that you still feel several weeks after the fact, almost a month later. The emotional fallout of across the NBA and the Sixers. They played a couple days later against the Golden State Warriors, gave Kobe a really nice tribute at the center and the Sixers. After that game against Golden State, they went out on the road. They of course, LA four in a row, and then they came back home and they beat the

Memphis Grizzlies, which it was no small thing. Memphis had only lost three times its previous sixteen games before that. Sixers filed that up with a win over the Chicago Bulls, a team they should beat. And then on Tuesday, going to the All Star Game break, they had Kawhi Leonard, Paul George and the LA Clippers. Competitive type game, especially down the stretch of the first half, but the seventy

Sixers they got the job done. Leonard one on one with Sivens on the left side Hawhi, Leonard puts the ball down. It's loose. Ben knocked it away. Leonard gets it back. He tumbles into the backboard. Steel Now Simmons driving Domla lamp up and good. He went right at Kawai had won the battle. Josh Richardson turns the corner on Kwai. The left hand lampers gone a fine on letterd. Josh Richardson is in the crowd. He is celebrating big time. Richardson with a great driving left hand lamp and a

file on Kawhi letter and Josh Richardson joining us. Congratulations, excellent game. You had seventeen points in the fourth quarter and a tremendous, hard fought victory over the Clippers. Your thoughts in general after this win? Man, it was a tough game, man, you know, competitors, you know, we wait for games like that, and the Clippers came in and gave us a great effort, a great push. But down the stretch, I think we did a good job again

stops and executing. Just a great note for the seventy six ers to go into the All Star Game break on a one ten, one h three win over the Clippers on Tuesday. So that's it. My favorites from the unofficial first half of this season got the All Star Game on Sunday night. Ben Simmons and Joel and Beat. Of course we'll be there for the second straight year. Ben on Team Lebron, Lebron on Team Jannis. They're on opposite sides for the second year in a row as well.

Should be great. Team will then have a couple of days off free group host the Brooklyn Nets next Thursday, than on Milwaukee for a big game a week from this Saturday, and then it's into the home stretch of

the year. We're gonna hear from a local high school student and how he has gone about doing his part to support the seventy sixers in just a second, but I want to remind you that coming up on Monday, March ninth, we are now just weeks away from the fifth annual Sixers Youth Foundation Evening on the Court Gala presented by Vip Wireless at the twenty three hundred Arena

in South Philadelphia. It's an awesome night. If you've never been before, you can purchase tickets by going to Sixers Youth Foundation dot org slash gala to support today and it's great. It is unlike any gala that you've probably been to before or banquet. We're not talking circular tables with white tablecloths. A dais a podium, speaker upon speaker upon speaker. No, it ain't that. The Sixers kind of

give it like more of a casual hangout vibe. You've got players, coaches, executives all there trying to rally around the Sixers Youth Foundation, attempting to raise as much money as possible. The grub is always great, this spirit is always good. So once again it's March ninth at the twenty three in South Philadelphia, fifth Annual Sixers Youth Foundation Evening on the Court Gala presented by vip Wireless six Ers Youth Foundation dot org slash Gala support and purchase

your tickets right now. Speaking of the Sixers Youth Foundation Gala, there's an auction and every year that the Sixers Youth Foundation gal has been held, one of the auction items has been that's right, someone can bid on. I would like to say opportunity, but it's probably more like the chance to draw these short straw to appear on an

episode of the broadcast. Now, in the past, we've had the actual wins appear themselves or they have deferred their appearance to someone close to them, and that was the case for last year's winner, Jim O'Connor. So first, a huge thanks to Jim for supporting the Sixers Youth Foundation

through his bid to appear on the broadcast. He then tapped a kid who's a friend of the family, Connor Ganley, freshman at the Saint Joseph's Prep, and before the Sixers played the Chicago Bulls a couple days ago, I had the chance to chat with Connor, who's joined by a couple of his buddies. Connor, what's up, my dude? Hello? How are you? I'm great. How are you feeling about this? I'm good at the season. I think you project the confident vibe. I feel like this is something that should

not be two out of the norm for you. I get the impression you talk about the seventy sixers a lot. Yes, yes, on a daily basis, all the time. All right, well, you and your squad mates here, Tom and Matt. You're all decked out in some quality garbener. You've got your city edition the New City. Who's that? Joel? Oh yeah, Joel? All right, all right, we got Tom rock in the number twenty five LSU, we got Matt and a very nice I'm actually envious of these seventy sixers. Fill across

the front sweatshirt. So tell me what is on the mind of a young and I'm gonna call it young. I know you might feel all but I'm an old man myself now the thirties, So I look at you guys, and I see youth. What's on the mind of like Sixers fan, high school Sixers fans in the Delaware Valley, Like, give me some of your perspective. What do you think about um? I thought the trade deadline was good with the moves we made because and I think Brett Brown is the right coach for this team. I just think

we need time to develop. So I think we're I think we're moving in the right direction. It is crazy because when you think about it, the projected Opening Nights starting lineup has played. If I just had to guess off the top of my head, maybe like a third of the season together at most. It's nuts. Give me a sense of what type of fan you are. I mean, I know that you have the current drip on with that New City edition, but like, tell me how you

consume the Sixers. Are you watching every night? Are you you're on social all the time? Like put that in perspective. So I usually watch every game every night, have it right on my desk as I'm doing my homework. M I watched free game and postgame. I listened to the radios sometimes listen to this podcast and other podcasts as well. And um, at our school, we have the Sixers, Strust the Process Club. Shout out to the TTP Club. Really, yes,

tell me more about this. So, um, we just once in a while, probably once a month, we talk about the Sixers, like we had a meeting on Friday was a trade deadline, talk about like the moves around the NBA and just especially the Sixers and how everyone's feeling about them. So I love it. Yes, that's amazing. So this is a club at the prep, the TTP Club. Yes, do you know how long it's been around? So you're a freshman, right, So is this something that was there

that you got involved with this year? Four years? But yes, it's why it was. I love the club. It's so it's four years when it's run by mister Brown, who's the director of admissions at the fronts. Oh, yes, that is so great. I need to know more. How long do the meetings go? And you said it's about once a month. Yes, so usually we have like a period

where you could have like any clubs you want. So it's usually less about fifty minutes for that day, I guess, and we get we get started right away, so and it's enjoyable. Like, there's definitely some debates that people won't agree with, but it's really fun. Yes to me, that kind of speaks to the larger significance of sports. And not to get too deep on or anything like that, but it's just awesome that here is a way that sports is helping bring a bunch of students together. I'm

sure you've made friendships through this, met new people. Yes, Ah, that's awesome. Do you play basketball yourself, m I did play basketball all through grade school, but now I'm the manager on the freshman team. Excellent, Yes that is it sounds like hoops is in your blood kind of yes. All right, so we know the trade deadline's pass. Got a couple of veteran shooters who can also defend, I think in Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson. The third we're almost at the All Star break. I want to hear

because you seem like a very positive, optimistic guy. I want to hear Connor Gailey's pump me up speech, rundown whatever it is for the second half of the season once the team gets back from the All Star break. So I think the All Star break is key for this team. I think we need a refresher um, like a time to just get everything together. I think once we get back, all the starters will be back. I hope hopefully they'll be back together. I think the acquisition

of Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson is key. I think not only the shooting fact, but they'll be a great locker room guys because we have heard of the troubles in the locker room. So I think the break is a key restart, and I think the team will be great. Um. I think we're gonna have some of those I think we're gonna start having some of those big wins on the road that we haven't been seeing as of late. So yeah, I think the break's key. But I think we're going to make a deep playoff run that people

aren't expecting right now. Amen to that, brother, before I let you go. Do you get down to games much? Yes, pretty often. I was here less on Friday actually for the game against Memphis. Well, if the seventy sixers come out and beat the Bulls tonight, we might have to just make sure that you Tom and Matt figure out how we get you into all games moving forward, so the mojo doesn't change. What do you like most about

coming down to seventy Sixers games. The atmosphere it's awesome like the Dunk squad, obviously, but the way our team plays so well is just it's enjoyable. Not that it wasn't enjoyable when we had to ten win season, but it's also the fact of coming to a professional game seeing all like some of the best athletes in the world compete at the highest levels. It's awesome. Connor Ganley, a freshman from Saint Joseph's Prep, could not have been

more well spoken about the Philadelphia seventy Sixers. Great job man, thanks so much, Thank you love it. Trust the process club at school doesn't get any better than that. Thanks again to Jim O'Connor for making the bid that allowed Connor Gantley to get on the pod, and thank you for listening. We'll be back at it once the Sixers return to action in about a week or so. Right here on the broadcast see