00:00Okay, well, speaking of that there, you think the Sixers team here, OKC Spurs, I mean, can they knock one
00:07of those teams out in the West, or does it really all just come back to what you said at
00:11the beginning of the interview here?
00:13This comes down to health and how many games of Bede plays.
00:16He got to play north of 40 ballgames.
00:18He can't be down there at that lane playing 40 games.
00:21This comes just down to health for the Sixers.
00:24Can they beat OKC or the Spurs?
00:26Well, there's a lot of variables right now.
00:28First of all, how well are they going to play together and mesh?
00:32That's up to Nick Nurse to try to get these guys to do that and how what they buy into.
00:37That's something we'll see as the season progresses.
00:40If they are able to do that and they stay healthy, they definitely have a chance.
00:44The biggest difference is San Antonio, OKC, have proven that they know how to win, okay, together.
00:53And they have guys who have done it for at least a season or so.
00:57This is a new entity.
00:58So it's all coming down to how well the players on the 76ers buy into what Nick Nurse is going
01:04to get them to do and how LeBron fits in and what he's willing to do.
01:09So I'm looking forward to seeing how it plays itself out.
01:12On paper, they are a force without question.
01:18They are a heck of a potential to be a heck of a basketball team, and it'll be fun to
01:23watch.
01:24And we needed something like that to happen, you know, certainly in the East.
01:27And the Knicks need to be ready because actually San Antonio should have beaten the Knicks.
01:31And I admire what the Knicks did.
01:33And, you know, it was a great, great job.
01:35But San Antonio should have won that series.
01:39Boy, I'll tell you, like you just said, that I-95 war, Rick, just got a little bit better here
01:45because I'm with you.
01:46I mean, you just said this.
01:47And by the way, think of this.
01:49You go up to 95, you've got the Celtics, you've got the Knicks, and now you've got the Sixers.
01:54This is great for the NBA.
01:55Well, that's the way it was in the old days.
01:57It was Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.
01:59They're back to that again and throw into the equation, who could screw it up, Giannis down in Miami.
02:06Man, I can't wait to see what happens here.
02:09Rick, I mean, you talk about a team that needed it, but one thing LeBron James hasn't ever dealt with
02:16is the Philadelphia fan base and the Philadelphia crowd.
02:21I think that, Rick, going into Philly, I want to see him do that.
02:26Well, hey, the L.A. fans never truly embraced him.
02:29Like you would have fought.
02:31They really didn't.
02:32They really didn't.
02:33And here's the thing.
02:34If you play the way you are capable of playing, then those fans are great to be your fans.
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