The Rights To Ricky Sanchez: The Sixers (76ers) Podcast

The Sixers locked up the six-seed and a first round matchup against the coaching-for-his-job Brad Stevens and the Boston Celtics. We talk about the takeaways from the Suns and Raptors games, including improved play from Horford, Richardson and Harris. We discuss Joel Embiid's appearance on the JJ Redick podcast, and give a live celebration as the Thunder lock up a victory that gives their 2020 first round pick to the Sixers. The Rights To Ricky Sanchez podcast is presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook. 

Ben Simmons is likely out for the rest of the season, Joel Embiid left the Portland game with an ankle injury, so Josh Richardson had the best game of his life. We discuss how the team might operate with Simmons out and what their ceiling is, how they got into this situation, what non-Sixers teams we'd want to win the championship, Stan Van Gundy as Sixers coach, and some hockey guy. The Rights To Ricky Sanchez is presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook.

Joel Embiid looks great, Shake Milton hit a game-winner, but we are somehow agonized by watching all three Sixers games since the return. We discuss the positives and negatives. Then The Ringer's Dan Devine, John Gonzalez, and Haley O'Shaughnessy, formerly known as Heat Check, join us to talk Sixers, Raptors, Philly fans, The Bubble, and who they would secret ban.  The Rights To Ricky Sanchez is presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook. 

We waited four months, and the Sixers were nice enough to play all of the greatest hits in their return to the court. Ben isn't shooting! Why did Brett do that? What is wrong with Horford? Why do they look so miserable? We discuss the Sixers return, take some excellent mailbag questions, and talk to Tina Dixon Spence of Buddha Babe, whose children's pajamas store is making our new masks. Get the masks here, only 250 of them! The Rights To Ricky Sanchez podcast is presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook. 

Joel Embiid finally appears on the Ricky. It took a global pandemic, and a weird NBA hostage scenario in Orlando, and who knows what else, but here he is. We talk to The Process about his relationship with fans, his free throw wedgies, his relationship with Ben Simmons, his new Under Armour signature shoe The Embiid 1 (out in September), whether Dario will ever come over, and much more. We also preview the Bubble season but who cares? The Rights To Ricky Sanchez is presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook.

The Sixers are going to win it all again. This decision is made after their first Bubble scrimmage against Memphis. We discuss Simmons' shooting, Milton's playmaking and zombie optimism. Then Houston Rockets GM and Process Godfather Daryl Morey joins us to talk about Sam Hinkie, Robert Covington, front office decision making, coaching and corn hole.  Sign up for Spike's chat with Chuck Klosterman here, and order the book with promo code RTRS for free shipping and a free book here.  The Rights To Ricky Sanchez Podcast is presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook. 

Chuck Klosterman showed up to the podcast with two Miller High Lifes in hand, ready to talk about whatever we wanted. We discussed his weird, cool book of short stories Raised In Captivity which is now out now on paperback, Ben Simmons, the NBA bubble, what Covid-19 would have been like 25 years ago, the legacy of Grantland, Bill Simmons, and comparing UFOs and The Shining.  Sign up for Spike's chat with Chuck Klosterman here, and order the book with promo code RTRS for free shipping and a free book here.  The Rights To Ricky Sanchez Podcast is presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook. 

Former Presidential candidate Andrew Yang joins the Ricky to talk about his life as a Knicks fan, why he gave them up (but not before trading John Starks memories with Spike), Sam Hinkie and The Process, as well as more serious topics like automation, the data dividend project, police violence and fixing the two-party political system. We also discuss Ben Simmons' practice threes and the bubble updates from the Sixers . Check out Andrew Yang's podcast Yang Speaks here, and his foundation Humanity Forward here.  Sign up for Spike's chat with Chuck Klosterman here, and order the book with promo code RTRS for free shipping and a free book here.  The Rights To Ricky Sanchez Podcast is presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook. 

We discuss the big news out of Orlando, that Ben Simmons has been playing power forward exclusively, and Shake Milton has been the primary point guard, its effects on the team and why it took so long. The former-forever Sixers guard Larry Hughes joins us to talk about life after the NBA, playing with Iverson, playing with LeBron, the Orlando Bubble and the Nelly video for Dilemma. You can hear Larry on the Bleav In Wizards podcast with Matt Modderno. The Rights To Ricky Sanchez Podcast is presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook.

The Sixers are in The Bubble, and the only people to tell us about it are the Sixers. We discuss the reports from Orlando so far, the seven year anniversary of The Ricky, welcome our newest staff member Mike O'Connor, and talk to Hassan Bennett, a Philadelphia man who was wrongly convicted of murder, spent 13 years in jail, and proved his innocence by acting as his own lawyer.  Follow Hassan on Twitter here, on Instagram here, and get his t-shirts here. Follow Mike O'Connor on Twitter here.  The Rights To Ricky Sanchez is presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook.