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76ers Nightly · podcast · every game night, two hours before tip-off

76ers Tip-Off

Two hours before tip-off: who plays, what decides it, where to watch. 5 minutes with The host and The analyst, on the nights the 76ers play and never in between.

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The voices
HThe host · runs the show
Opens with the one thing that decides tonight, keeps the pace, believes in the team until the numbers say otherwise.
AThe analyst · brings the numbers
Lineups, on/off, cap sheets. Every figure he says is in the brief on this site, or he doesn't say it.
Produced by the club's desk from the data on this site. The host and the analyst are roles, not people: no real person is portrayed, and every number in the show is on the page it links to.
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24minutes of 76ers talk
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Thu, Oct 22 · 76ers Tip-Off · 4:43

Allen's Knee, Embiid's Night: Cleveland Comes to South Philly

Philadelphia opens at home against a rested Cleveland side that may be without Jarrett Allen and is already missing Khalifa Diop. The numbers desk is sold on the 100 points the defense allowed in New York, and the host keeps pointing out that it was one game.

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How the show works

76ers Tip-Off is the pregame show, 5 minutes, and it exists only on the nights the 76ers play: the one thing that decides tonight, the opponent and the matchup that settles it, the injury report and who plays, the number of the day, the last game as the reason tonight looks the way it does, when it tips off and where to watch it, and one report from the insiders, always attributed. There is no show on the days without a game: nothing would have happened worth five minutes of your time.

Two voices carry it: the host runs the show, the analyst brings the numbers. They are roles of the 76ers Nightly desk, not people, and they never say a figure that is not on this site. Every episode has a full transcript with timestamps you can click to jump the audio, chapter markers, and the pages behind each number, so a claim in the show can always be checked on the page it comes from.

The episode is published two hours before tip-off, preseason included — after the league posts its official injury report, which is what makes the lineup talk worth anything. Subscribe with the RSS feed above in any podcast app; it is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and YouTube too (the buttons at the top), and short vertical clips go out on the 76ers Nightly social accounts. The archive on this page keeps every episode of the season, newest first.

All episodes

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22OctTip-Off · 4:43Allen's Knee, Embiid's Night: Cleveland Comes to South PhillyPhiladelphia opens at home against a rested Cleveland side that may be without Jarrett Allen and is already missing Khalifa Diop. The numbers desk is sold on the 100 points the defense allowed in New York, and the host keeps pointing out that it was one game.20OctTip-Off · 5:07Embiid vs. Towns at the Garden: Opening Night Against the Team That Swept PhillyPhiladelphia opens the 2026-27 season at New York with Embiid, Brown, Maxey and LeBron cleared and a full-strength Knicks side waiting. Marcus puts the Towns-Embiid matchup and a 6.4 net-rating gap at the center of a night that follows three straight preseason losses.10OctTip-Off · 4:55Hukporti Out a Full Year as Sixers' Fab Four Debuts at BostonAriel Hukporti is officially out for a year with an Achilles injury as Philadelphia takes Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey, Jaylen Brown and LeBron James to Boston together for the first time. Marcus calls the split preseason record meaningless with the stars barely sharing the floor, while Jaylen Brown faces the Celtics for the first time since the trade that brought him to Philadelphia.8OctTip-Off · 4:16Embiid, Maxey, LeBron All Cleared as Sixers Visit BrooklynPhiladelphia's three biggest names — Embiid, Maxey and LeBron — are cleared to play tonight after sitting out Monday's win over the Knicks, as the Sixers visit a Brooklyn team that posted one of the league's worst defensive ratings last season. Health questions remain thin up front and in the backcourt, with four regulars — Simons, Fall, Barlow and Bona — all pointed toward an October 16th return.5OctTip-Off · 4:46Embiid, Maxey and LeBron Sit; Brown Gets His First Look vs. the KnicksWith Embiid, Maxey and LeBron all resting, Jaylen Brown gets his first live look in a Sixers uniform against the team that swept them last spring. Philadelphia's thin camp roster takes the floor at Xfinity Mobile Arena as the cap sheet closes in on the second apron.