Sixers honor IVERSON FINALS run, but WHY has it been 25 YEARS?!?!?! – Locked on Philadelphia 76ers

Sixers honor IVERSON FINALS run, but WHY has it been 25 YEARS?!?!?! – Locked on Philadelphia 76ers

Welcome in to another edition of Locked On 76ers. His name is Keith Pompei. My name is Mark Farzetta. 25 years celebration of the Sixers making the finals. Yay. 25 years since the Sixers have been in the finals. Boo. We’ll talk about that and more when we return. This is Locked On 76ers. You are Locked On 76ers, your daily Philadelphia 76ers podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. And we do thank you for making Locked On 76ers your first listen every day. Part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. This particular episode brought to you by FanDuel. Football season is here and right now, new customers can bet just $5. And if your bet wins, you get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. Download the FanDuel app by going to FanDuel.com to get started. Keith, you had uh you had proposed something yesterday about, you know, 25 years, right? 25 years since the Sixers have been in the finals. And and rightfully so, the Sixers are honoring that with the Allen Iverson jersey that we’ve talked about already. I’m excited. You’re not nearly as excited as I am, but I’m excited. They’re going to be wearing it 14 different times. As you see on the screen right now, the 14 games are going to be wearing those classic black Allen Iverson jerseys. I uh I can’t wait to see Tyrese Maxi running around in those. But um you had talked about maybe the you know the top moments. You proposed the idea of going through the top moments of the last 25 years since the Sixers have been to the finals. And I am literally starting to put a list together and we’re going to ask the good people of Philadelphia to to help us with this list as well. But as I am doing this list, I’m like, “Wow, 25 years, man.” You’re thinking about the Andre Iguadala era, you know, him being a Max player. You’re talking about ownership, changing hands, you know, you really got to go through a lot here. Uh, multiple GMs. I think it’s been 175 general managers since that 25. Maybe a slight exaggeration, but Keith, I got to be honest. As I am as I am putting this list together of like good moments, I am getting more and more pissed off. Not at the of course the celebration for me is nostalgic. It’s be to go back to Iverson crossing over Tyron Lou and stepping over Tyron Lou. Um, I go back over this 25 years and the question that keeps repeating in my brain is why? Why? Why? Why? Why? The 76ers, why a franchise like this? 25 years. I know everyone makes a big deal about the second round of the playoffs, but you’re talking 25 years since you’ve competed for the conference title, since you’ve been in a championship. Even longer, obviously, since you won a championship. What can we put our finger on it at all? Why 25 years? Why? How? How? How’s that happen? I I I think the main the major thing is it was started off with um initially was um bad draft picks. I mean, we look at they had a plethora of draft first round picks and you know, a lot of these guys just didn’t work out. Secondly, I also think that it was a poor culture, you know, and and and that uh contributed to a lot of things. I mean, when we talk about the poor culture, we went into that last last week or earlier this week where you talk about how a guy like, you know, Joel Embiid and and Ben Simmons, um, you know, they they they don’t when they get here, they don’t really have veterans like leading them the way, leading the way, telling them what to do. So, what happens is you develop poor habits. you you like nobody holds you accountable and next thing you know that stuff kind of like hurts like it it hurts you in the long run. But I also think that when you look at the 76ers um in addition to these bad draft picks and and poor culture, they made some trades and they did stuff that they did back in the day. Like for instance, when they went out there and and traded for Chris Weber, it was when Chris Weber wasn’t the Chris Weber that we thought he was, right? Well, then you go out and you get bring in guys and you you brought in, you know, James Harden, you bring in Jimmy Butler, you now it’s, you know, Paul George, they got Tobias Harris, you know, they went out there and they made all these major splashes and and they won the trades in the summertime or the free agent signings in the summertime, but they just didn’t work out for him. Al Horford. I mean, you think about this. All these guys that they had, you know, you can argue maybe not Tobias, maybe not Al Horford, but the rest of these guys, you can look at them and say, “Yo, they’re going to be Hall of Famers, but they still couldn’t get it done.” You know, you look at the hiring of Doc Rivers, like that was supposed to be the hiring. He was supposed to take us to the promised land, everybody thought, right? It didn’t happen. You you you look at um Daryl my like everyone was like doing back flips over Daryl my now this team goes from a second round team to a playin team to not even making a playoff a tanking squad. So it’s just been a lot of uh poor decisions uh along the way. But when you look at the history and all the guys that they had and their resumes, you you have to say like they just underachieved major. And I think it all started with the poor draft picks, the poor culture and and the uh missing on on trades and and and free agent signes. Yeah, I I agree with everything. I I go I think it all stems from too many cooks in the kitchen, which is a phrase I I use a lot. Uh because I think when so many people have their fingerprints on it and you change hands so many different times and this goes from ownership going not just from Ed Snyder to you know uh Harris Apollo what is it Apollo Global Group originally now Harris Blitzer Sports Entertainment but you also talk within that you have Adam Aaron and he became the face of the Andrew Binham deal you changed hands again Harris becomes more of a face. Um, you go through the whole situation there with Sam Hanky where you’re talking about not you’re talking about getting bounced out of the second round of the playoffs against the Boston Celtics. Then you have an atrocious year after that. Uh, and then you start the process. You’re out of it for like five years, six years completely. Then all of a sudden you have seven straight years of making the playoffs, but again still can’t make it out of the second round of the playoffs. And all that while change in coaches, change in general manager, change in final say over who this team has drafted. 25 years since and even since the finals, I mean, you look at immediately after that, you had the Pat Crochi versus Ed Snyder thing. Like that was bananas. Uh it like the it’s hard to find somebody that is going to be in charge for a long time. And now everyone that takes over that role of being in charge, everyone of the 76ers fan base has trust issues. Like you don’t trust anybody to run this team. And no matter what, whoever comes in, yeah, maybe another GM or another president of basketball operations person with final say, Daryl Mury. Maybe another one doesn’t resign Joel Embiid to the extension. Maybe you’re not in the cap hell as many publications put the Sixers rightfully so in. Maybe it’s different that way. But when you have so many different cooks in the kitchen, so many people making different decisions over the last 25 years, it adds up to unfortunately what the Sixers tried so hard through the process to get over which was basketball mediocrity. And that’s where they still are unfortunately because no GM, no president of basketball ops is going to come in here and wave a magic wand and all of a sudden Joel Embiid is going to be healthy. uh Ben Simmons learned how to shoot, like make him learn how to shoot while he was here or be willing to shoot. Uh keep Jimmy Butler here for an extended period of time. There are just so many different avenues to go down over the last 25 years. I think it just turns into a turn style of people making those final decisions to at least attempt to get the 76ers past mediocrity. Yeah, I agree 100%, you know, with that is um too many cooks in the kitchen. But also, I I think what it was is the reason why it was too many cooks in the kitchen. I I felt like it, you know, that all stems from ownership, right? I feel like, you know, you have guys there who, you know, they look at it and they think it’s fantasy basketball, right? Like, you know, I mean, and it’s it’s not a knock, but it’s kind of like, you know, you’re you’re you’re you’re diehard basketball fans and you think it’s a whole lot easier than what it is. So, you’re like, “Okay, let’s get this guy in here. You know, he’s a great player. He’s this and that. Like even going back to the process years, some of these guys that they picked up, the guys who they would sign in and get workouts with, whenever you looked at their resumes, for the majority of them, they were all like pretty good high school players, right? Guys who when they went to college, they were supposed to be the guy, but it just didn’t work out for them. or or like they had two good stent two years in the league and then they like they just fell off. And what the Sixers are doing is okay, let’s get them in here. Let’s work him out. Let’s see how it works out. And we we quickly found out in most instances that the guy just wasn’t any good, right? But that’s what they were doing. It was kind of like, oh yeah, I heard of him. He was supposed to be pretty good. Let’s go get him. you know, and and you know, the one thing that I will say, and this is a little bit going off topic just slightly um a bit, but when I was watching the Commanders game and uh they they went to the owners box, the Commanders and Giants, and up in there they he was sitting there with well, he was standing there, Josh Harris, next to Bob Meyers. And I’m saying to myself, like, well, you know, you hear that Bob does not want to move to Philadelphia. He doesn’t want to move to the East Coast. he doesn’t want to do this, but he is a consultant for the for the commanders. And every time I see games a lot, I see Bob in, you know, in in Washington. So the thing is it’s like you feel like if they have to clean house, you know, what will it take Bob Meyers to come to Philadelphia and help the 76ers, you know, because he’s a guy that has a proven track record of of making the the great decisions. So, you know, I don’t know. I keep looking at it and I keep saying like maybe they have to throw the bank at him because evidently, you know, and and and you you you you have to imagine that Josh Harris as sometimes says, “Hey, uh I know I keep asking you about the Commanders, but basketball is your sport. What do you feel about what we’re doing here in Philadelphia?” You know what I mean? So, Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Be honest. Yeah. Just let me know. let me know. And then you remember even in the summer league, Bob was sitting there watching the Sixers play, sitting next to Elton Bran. On the other side of Elton Brand was uh Daryl my Nick Nurse. So, you know, it’s like I’m pretty sure like that that conversation had to come up a couple times. Um yeah, and we’ve highlighted many times over the last couple of months now Daryl Moore is on the hot seat. There is no other way to look at it. Nick Nurse could be on the hot seat as well. Maybe another president of basketball ops comes in and says, “Oh, no. I’ll give Nurse another year and see what he could do with things that I, you know, how I changed this team or whatever.” But to uh now that I’m done venting at least when it comes to the last 25 years and trying to find as and our friend Peter Thurman pointed it out there as well as you just said, maybe it’s time to clean clean house. But, uh, I do look at the last 25 years and there have been I I hate to admit it, there’s been some pleasant surprises. There have been some great moments. The process certainly hasn’t worked out to the point where you’re actually competing for championships. You’ve had some pretty great teams for the regular season that unfortunately fizzled out in the postseason. There are some great moments since that finals run. when you think about the last 25 years and I’ll open this up to our listeners. I’ll open this up on social media as well. We’ll be asking this question as we lead up to the season, but what are two things? What one, why haven’t the Sixers been back? If you would to say there was a number one reason as to why the Sixers haven’t been back to the finals in 25 years, what is it? And then also, are there moments that you really did enjoy over the last 25 years watching the 76ers? The one that does jump to mind for me is Andre Godala Keith at the foul line against the Bulls. Game six, round one of the playoffs. Sixers are down a point. He knocks both free free throws down and you go and you actually go on to play against the Boston Celtics, the Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett, Rajan Rondo, uh Boston Celtics before they lost, go figure, in game seven of the second round. If if you have a moment over the last 25 years, is it a moment that you go back to and go, “Man, that was pretty cool.” Yeah. You know what? I I think it might have been uh I want to say it was the 201 178 season, was it when um Jimmy? That was that was 2019 when they got Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. So it was the two it was when it was the fir it was the year where they made the playoffs the first time in a while and they ended up you know people forget they were rolling towards the end of the season they they they picked up Ersan Ilvasova Marco Bellanelli um and then in the buyout market and then all of a sudden you know they go on this major run and I believe they won like they ended the regular season with like 19 straight games. They won 20 something out of 26 games. Um they go and they play the Miami Heat in the first round of the playoffs and they win that series and they go to Boston. Now again, they lost to Boston in five games. But at the at that particular time, everything looked up, right? You’re saying to yourself, you got a young Joel Embiid, you have Ben Simmons. Um you know, the biggest question was, are they going to bring back these shooters? They didn’t. But at the same time, at that particular time, I felt like that was, you know, coming off of those lean years, you know, when they won 10 games, they won 19 games. Um, the struggle, you actually felt like the 76ers were going to turn a corner, right? You actually felt that way. Um, so to me, that was one of the most memorable times just because you saw Yeah, thanks Pete. It was 20 out of 26, but you you saw at that at that particular time where it was one of those things where you just felt like they’re here. They’re going to be a contender. You know, they’re going to be a contender. My takeaway from that series um was Ben Simmons had a one-point game. He had one point. He was 0 for four from the field. And I thought, all right, yeah, he does everything else great, but this is only the beginning, right? Like, he’s going to build on this, right? Right. I think that was also the series after they beat the Heat 4-1 in five games. And I I I think was that Justin was what was the guy’s name? Justin um they called him Simba. Just was it Justin? James Alex. What the heck was that guy’s name? Justin Anderson. Justin Anderson. Justin Anderson. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Dwayne Wade tried to break his arm on an out of bounds play. I remember that. Um, but yeah, that was why. But I do remember that. Yeah, they won their first round and then they hit a wall and then as fate would have it, they’d hit that wall that was entitled the Boston Celtics. Little leprechaun uh painted on that wall for what, three or four times after that. So, good times. But yeah, that was that was a good moment in terms of all right, this is just the beginning. Let’s go. Let’s make something happen. I just thought I mean think about this like the 76ers were Dude, it’s crazy because when you think about how where the 76ers came from to where they they were at that particular time when you would go on the road like everyone wanted to see Joel Embiid play like you would go on the West Coast and you would hear E A G L E S Let’s go Sixers J. It was like they were one of the the the top teams that people wanted to see on the road, right? And you remember like I mean they they went to they went to China to play preseason games. They’ve been to London. They’ve been to England twice, you know? They’ve been all over. They they’ve been all over and it was like the league was starting to embrace them. So you felt like, okay, this team is going to be good. Now, another thing is teams like the Miami Heat, the Boston Celtics, just name a couple squads that were contenders. They were like in the be they were like in rebuilding process. So, like they were like, “Oh, well, we got to rebuild again.” You know what I mean? Like the Celt I mean the the the Heat wanted the championship early on. We know that. But then they had to go through they lost LeBron. They had to rebuild. The the Boston Celtics, they started off struggling the same time the Sixers did. They got good, but then they had to reload again. And it’s like you look at it and you know, while they were the Sixers at that particular time were supposed to be the squad, they were supposed to be the team that was going to, you know, go on and win a championship. And and now that the sad part about this whole 25 years thing is we’re celebrating they’re actually celebrating the team that lost like because they have nothing else to celebrate right now. It’s all about No, like and it’s sad. Yeah, you’re right. From a marketing standpoint, you say to yourself, From a marketing standpoint, you say to yourself like, “Look, we’re going to sell tickets. They’re going to wear these throwback jerseys. We’re going to have fun with it. But man, two years ago, you could have celebrated the 40th anniversary of the 1983 team, right? At least they won the chip. So now we’re celebrating the team that lost in six games that won the first game and then lost the next four because they made it to the because they won the conference championship. It it it just tells you how lean things have been over the last 25 years. It’s kind of sad actually. kind of sad. Now you’re making me act. Yeah. Now you’re act now. See, I don’t get sad. I get rageful because I think about all the like all the memories that could have been made down there and and better moments that could could have been had down there. So, we’ll ask the question over the next couple of weeks. Uh what are your favorite moments in a positive way? What are your favorite moments from the last 25 years? Although, yes, we did not get to enjoy a championship in the city of Philadelphia. We did not get to enjoy even being out of the second round in Philadelphia. But if you have some good moments that you like, please feel free to share it with us. And also, what’s your number one reason why it’s been 25 years since a finals appearance, since a conference championship in Philadelphia? Uh when we come back, we’ve uh talked about the name Justin Edwards quite a bit, mostly during the summer league. We’ve laid off. We’ve mentioned him a couple of times. Really haven’t got into it. What is the real role? We’re doing our examination of some players here going up to the regular season. We’ve talked about Jared McCain, a forgotten man. We’ve talked about Janai Broom. And uh next up, we’re going to talk about Justin Edwards and what you can really expect from him going forward. 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That’s fanduel.com to get started. That’s fuel.com to place your first $5 bet. And if it hits $300 in bonus bets across the app, that’s fuel.com. And Keith, we also we got to get into our top 100 here. We’re breaking it down also with the great people of Locked on NBA. We’ll release those in our last segment. We’ll talk about some of their uh some of those spots as well as Joel Embiid as well as Tyrese Maxi as well as Paul George and where they rank on the NBA top 100 uh brought to you by Locked On. So, we’ll get to get into that a little bit later. You’ve mentioned this name a bunch, Keith. I I don’t I honestly I’m at a loss. I don’t know what to expect from Justin Edwards, but after watching I know it’s only summer league, but you’re talking about a guy who proved himself as an NBA player. I thought last year didn’t really look like he had all his wits about him. I don’t know what what are we to make of Justin Edwards and what should our expectations be with Justin Edwards in the upcoming season? You know, that’s a great point. Like when you say he didn’t have his wits about him. I I think Justin Edwards is who we who we’ve seen right the last couple years. I I think that you know Justin Edwards is a pretty good team player, a pretty good role player, right? He’s the the type of guy that you put him in there playing against elite guys and he does, you know, role player things, but he does it at like a high level. I even when you look at some of the high school games that I saw him play in, like the videos that I watched, you know, there were certain games like, you know, if they really needed him to do something, um um you know, if if they really needed him to do something, um he would do it. But for the most part, he was more of a facilitator, getting everybody involved, playing multiple positions. And when he goes to Kentucky, it was kind of like he wasn’t aggressive at times the way that people felt that he should have been. The same way for summer league. But on this team, if you have Joel Embiid, you have Paul George, you have Tyrese Maxi, he’s the type of guy that you’re going to say, you know what, go out there and guard Kevin Durant. Do all you can do. We know that Kevin Durant is going to u get some points, but make them work hard for it. Make him work extremely hard to where he’s going to get tired. He’s going to do things like that. Okay, we’re going to need you to grab rebounds. we’re going to need you to do all types of other things. I think that’s who Justin Edwards is right now in his career. And you know, those are the type of guys that don’t get drafted high, right? But at the same time, they can, you know, make a little imprint on the team like a guy in the locker room who’s going to be really appreciated even though the media members aren’t going to talk about, you know, his five points, his his his six rebounds, and, you know, a steal in the block. They’re not going to talk about that. They’re going to talk about Tyrese Maxi and Joel Embiid. So, I think that’s what we can expect from, you know, Justin Edwards role this season. Yeah. The guys that really jumped out, especially in the last month of the season, and I know we’ve noted this before, but Demone is one of them. And then obviously Quinton Grimes, which is why I do understand, of course, the Sixers interest in Quinton Grimes, but Justin Edwards, I just thought left a lot to be desired. He wasn’t a guy that really jumped off uh you know jumped off the film as they say to me when I’d go back and rewatch games or even in the games live watching it just I don’t know something seemed he certainly earned his spot I’ll say that but when I was waiting for that next step forward once he could have a little bit more comfort comfortability being that he was going to be around for a minute I I thought you’d see a little bit more from him and yeah absolutely we’re talking about a role player here I think anyone who’s expecting him to take some kind of giant Maxian leap forward to use that phrase I think is just setting their expectations a little too high. But I’m I’m still not sure just to what what to make of him. He’s going to get an opportunity this year as everybody is. Granted, the injuries that the Sixers have to be worried about and the Sixers fan base are worried about as well. He’s going to get that opportunity. I’m hoping he makes a hell of a lot more of it than he did during summer league. I’ll make uh I’ll at least set the bar right there. I think it’ll be a little bit better than what we saw. And then the other thing is, and we said this during the process of the summer league playing out, it wasn’t like he was surrounded surrounded by, you know, wild NBA talent. You know, he’s got to get used to being a guy that is going to be more of a main cog in the wheel in that type of environment, a summer league environment. So, not having some of that more marquee talent around him makes him more of a focal point. And with that challenge in front of him, I just don’t think he responded well to it. Yeah. I mean, and and and that’s what it is. So you look at him and you say to yourself, “Okay, so let’s just say if they bring everybody back, like we, you know, it looks like they’re trying to dump people, but let’s just say if everybody comes back, right, where do you see Justin Edwards at in the rotation?” You know what I mean? I don’t see like, you know what I’m saying? So yeah, so that’s what we’re talking about now. Like you don’t like now, who knows? Maybe they may feel like if you get rid of Kelly Ubé, he can take more he can get more minutes and do certain things. But when we look at it, it’s kind of like, okay, he’s a rotation player, but how many minutes is he going to get a game? Like, you know, are you drawing up plays for him? No. You know, um, so, you know, it’s it’s one of those things where we we look at him and he’s he’s just going to be a role player that that does role player things and playing defense and doing and and stuff like that. Um, like I felt like a I’ll tell you right now, that’s a good barometer though. I think that’s a good bar as far as like would you does he make you feel better in the event that the Sixers do trade Kelly Ubé and I’ll answer that right now. Nope. Yeah. Yeah. We’ll see. We’ll see. I’m going to give him a little bit of a chance. But at the same time, he has to be a little bit more aggressive. He has to look more for his own shot. um you know that he does it. You know what you’re not going to be ranked number one in the country and number three in the country because he dropped to number three at the end of the season if you don’t have any talent. All right. You just can’t be you just I mean like you know that’s that’s a major miss. Now, the problem is, you know, because of that, he didn’t impress. Now, he did have some uh injury, missed some games at Kentucky, but still he didn’t impress enough NBA scouts or for him to go undrafted. Now, he probably would have been drafted in the second round, but you know what happens is a lot of NBA agents, Rich Paul was probably calling teams, I shouldn’t say probably, but he was calling teams saying, “Look, don’t draft my guy because we have a destination that we, you know, going to and that destination was the 76ers.” Fair enough. Uh Keith, before we hit this uh quick stoppage here, I just want to ask you this. You’ve been in a lot of media scrums over the years. Mhm. Um I don’t know if you’re aware of what happened last night at the Aaron Nola media scrum after he uh took it to the Mets six scoreless innings. There was a rather unfortunate incident that happened. I consider it to be hilarious because I am still a child at heart. Uh we come back, I’m going to ask you the weirdest thing in a media scrum and of course I’ll ask you about Quinton Grimes and whether or not he is signed yet with the 76ers. All that and more when we return. This is Locked on 76ers. Uh, so first I’ll just ask you, has Quinton Grimes been signed yet? Nah. But you know what? Here’s the thing though. I I think it could it could be something could happen uh soon. At least that’s the So yesterday, I don’t know if you noticed this, but on IG, yesterday around like noon or whatever, on his IG um uh story, Queen Grimes posted a picture of him uh with a Sexers jersey on. Oh, yeah. So, I mean, I know. And a lot of people are like, “Oh, oh, oh, oh.” So, um you know, so a a lot of people were uh you know, a a lot of people were happy about that. And then it detectives, huh? Internet detectives. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, the internet detectives were out left and right. I mean, but the internet detectives also did tell us that uh Gershan Yabuselli was coming back. You remember cuz he bought a Remember they like, “Oh, yeah. He’s getting a house. Bought a house. He bought the house. He bought the house. I’m like, “Oh.” And remember I was like, “Uh, let’s look.” You don’t know with that because some of these guys they get stuff, but it’s like contingent on if they make the team or they stay with the team. But anyway, so yeah, like I I do feel like that something could happen. I I do feel like something could happen quickly. All right. Now, when you say quick, do you mean something this week? Do you mean two weeks? any form of a timeline. I mean, it depends. Like, you know, like the one thing we were talking about yesterday is like the report about uh you know, they’re trying to dump salary. Yeah. To to help with the CBA and and all that to get underneath the uh the apron. Um, so you know the thing is it’s just like if a ideal spot I guess you got to figure out a team that has enough you know identify teams who have enough cap space to take on those salaries, right? But at the same time what type of assets are you going to give to those teams to to to entice them to do that as well? So, you know, but I do think the fact that Quinton came out and did something um it leads me to believe that he at least thinks that something is in the works or or maybe he’s getting a little impatient, but but you know, when typically you don’t see players do stuff like that um at this time of the year when they’re unsigned. Fair enough. Well, we’re going to get into the top 100 tomorrow, but uh Ke, so last night, Aaron Nola tossed six scoreless innings and then did his postgame media scrub. So, the media is all huddled around him and in the middle of him answering a question, somebody let one loose. Okay, it reminded me, if you’re familiar with the acclaimed film Step Brothers, starring Will Ferrell and John C. Riley, I thought it would be silent for those that get the reference. Um, what’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever ever encountered in a media scrub? You know what? It’s funny. Like the funniest thing that ever happened like people forget like me and Doc Rivers got into it one one time. Okay. Yeah, it was What was it? It was uh But it wasn’t weird. It was crazy because um I guess I could have probably Well, anyway, so they they won the game, but they they beat a Toronto Raptor team. That was like the the season where it was like the COVID season. Not not the uh the one where they had the bubble. Okay. But the following season. All right. I mean, you could you could you you could go on internet and just type it up and it’s like dumb ass question. So what happened is they played a team that was basically dudes off the street, right? And they barely won and it was a it was like I guess you say a win is a win and it’s a good win. Any win is a good win. But it wasn’t. So their effort was out of it. And so I asked Doc about it, the effort, and he was like, “That’s a dumbass question.” Oh, that’s cut it up. Like that’s a dumb ass. So, like I’m like, “Bro, like I’m looking at you on the sidelines getting all upset and this and that and now you’re saying it’s a dumbass question.” So, then the next question I asked him was, “Uh, why are you getting so emotional?” And then he Right. So, yeah, that was that was kind of crazy. So, like that was on me. Was that on the Zoom? Was that one of them Zoom? Nah, bro. This was this was like we were in Toronto. Like this is we were in Toronto so it was Oh, it was face to face. It was it Yeah, it was face to face and everybody looking and they’re like, “Oh gosh.” And then next morning it’s all it was all over everywhere. But yeah, it was crazy. I was like, “Yo, why you so emotional?” He went off. I’m like, “Yo.” But um but it was weird because then we saw each other the next day. Like we s we actually talked afterwards like like you know that’s the thing. the cameras didn’t see it and we we talked and then the next day it was uh it was we were at practice and he’s like looking at me and I’m looking at him but no one wants to no one wants to uh apologize right like what freak him freak him no you he he owes me ap what happened I got co like two days later and uh and he was like the one of the first people to call. Like he reached out to me and was all this and that. So it was it was kind of bizarre but yeah he was like yeah that was that was on me but that was one of the weirdest things that I got into. I mean that I’ve been around. Yeah I’ve been around. Jimmy Butler used to be funny though. He used to be funny like Jimmy Butler was the type of dude like postgame or whatever. like he would just say stuff and it was like he would always like try to just det like he was a guy type of guy he likes confrontation in a way so he would say something and if you didn’t say anything back to him like oh it was game on after that like he would just mess with you you know so I would laugh at that like he would like people like so Jimmy would look at people and sometimes these people like try not to make eye contact zoom in on them but n that was funny too But yeah, the fun the fun dumb ass question. Hey, you should have been like, “Doc, it was a scheduled question.” It was a scheduled question. Sorry. Whatever. All right. Um, hey, I mentioned the top 100. Make sure you guys check it out. NBA locked on. NBA top 100 is here. Voted on by NBA hosts of the Locked On Network. Our top 100 was formed by experts that cover these teams and players every day. Find the full list of Locked on Sports Today on YouTube or wherever you get your podcast. Don’t miss our reaction, including Keith and I to Joel Embiid, Paul George, and Tyrese Maxi where they rank on the list. So, make sure you guys check it out. Thanks for listening. Thanks for watching. Make sure you guys hit like and subscribe to Locked on Sixers YouTube channel. We’ll be back with you guys tomorrow. Uh, hit us up. I’ll put the question out there on social media as well. Best moments of the last 25 years as well as why it’s been 25 years. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Catch you guys tomorrow. See you then.

Keith and Marc discuss the 25 years since the 76ers were in the NBA Finals as the Sixers plan to celebrate the Iverson Era with 14 games wearing that era’s jersey.

The Show also talks about WHY it’s been 25 years since making into to the finals and Justin Edwards’ role for the upcoming season.

Segment 1: 25 YEARS?!?!?

Segment 2: Edwards role

Segment 3: GRIMES WATCH?

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