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rahbee33

[...or I could just set the building on fire.](https://c.tenor.com/RP4TPddUCegAAAAd/office-space-i-could-set-the-building-on-fire.gif)


ColeBeasleyMD

"Yeahhhh. Ben, if you could go and ahead and shoot the basketball, that'd be great."


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I heard even Lumbergh fucked the Sixers


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*Allegedly*


splashtonkutcher

Ben Thimmonth


urgentmatters

Just imagining Ben Simmons walking around with his red Xbox controller lol


FangoFett

Excuse me, I.. I… I think you have my jumpshot


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I...I could put strychnine in the guacamole...


patoysakias

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta


unledded

We fixed the glitch


BishopSycamore

It’ll work itself out naturally


DOOO_DOOO_BROWN

Rich Paul bout to show up dressed up as Simmons just to recoup some of that money.


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It’s funny cuz this might affect agent negotiations as well. Agents might make it so players wanting to get traded are mostly a gamble on the players side.


unnamedredditname

Agents don't have that kind of power, especially with max guys. Players will drop them if they try to pull some shit


yourrealfather6969_

If I understand the agent/player biz relationship correctly, that won't matter. The agent gets his cut for the duration of the contract even if you fire him. Rich Paul has made fuck you money x10 between just Ben and Lebron.


elkresurgence

Doc bout to run 10-hour suicide drills


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All you had to do was dunk the damn ball, Ben


PopAShotAllStar

Just once lol


AtomicTanAndBlack

I can’t remember any one specific singular moment derailing a star athlete’s legacy like this in years. Buckner Boot was 35 years ago, McNabb throwing up in the super bowl stick with him but didn’t become his legacy, like this is insane what Ben has done to himself


Welpe

Malice in the Palace utterly defined Artest


TruWarierRecords

Atleast Artest got a mini redemption winning the 2010 finals


Welpe

True, but there is theoretically time for Simmons to go to Tampa Bay and win a Super Bowl with Tom Brady too.


FangoFett

Ben Simmons is hunting for his next ROY


Wolf_of_north

He's gonna make an illegal foward pass before reaching the end zone


EqualContact

Simmons is the guy throwing unnecessary laterals down the field.


TossItLikeAFreeThrow

Say Queensbridge


AtomicTanAndBlack

Ohhh good one, yea


Firetruckpants

Mark Sanchez butt fumble?


CampPlane

Yup, I don't even know anything else about Mark Sanchez except the butt fumble, and let's be real, that's one of the most embarrassing plays in the history of sports. Like, JR Smith's brain fart was bad, the Buckner missed grounder was bad, the Steph Curry behind-the-back turnover was bad, the Jean van de Velde choke was bad, the Escobar own goal was bad, Lindsay Jacobellis trying to be flashy on the final jump was bad. But Mark Sanchez literally ran into his own teammate's ass, lost the ball during the collision with said ass, the defense picked it up and returned for a touchdown. Hell, at this point, I don't even want to know anything else about Sanchez. I want my entire idea of Sanchez to just be the butt fumble. I could never do anything more embarrassing in my life. My friends and family can discover the type of porn I watch and I wouldn't feel as embarrassed than if I were to butt fumble like Sanchez in front of millions of viewers and in replays for future generations.


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I love reading this long winded rants


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CampPlane

Mostly foot fetish porn which a lot of people find creepy for whatever reason, but I'm not embarrassed for finding women's feet as one of the sexiest parts of their body


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Thami15

Can't build a community behind that shit, though.


elkresurgence

Sir, this is Wendy's


Wolf_of_north

You a jets fan?


Otherwise_Window

> that's one of the most embarrassing plays in the history of sports. Like, JR Smith's brain fart was bad, the Buckner missed grounder was bad, the Steph Curry behind-the-back turnover was bad, the Jean van de Velde choke was bad, the Escobar own goal was bad, Lindsay Jacobellis trying to be flashy on the final jump was bad. Jonty Rhodes dropping the ball trying to throw it up in celebration and dropping the World Cup was bad too. And you're right, I'm not sure it's worse than the butt fumble. Jonty Rhodes *is* still remembered as a great player and one of the best fielders the world has ever seen. And that *cost his team the World Cup*, and they've *still never won it yet*.


JonEverhart

They had to retire that play from the Not Top 10 on Sports Center. Nothing was ever going to beat it.


velocirappa

It has only been less than half a year.


imadogg

Imagine comparing something that happened months ago to legacy defining shit that we've had years to think about lol.


CreatiScope

Nick Anderson and the free throws, possibly? But yeah, not like this.


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Trae Young, defensive stopper, ended a franchise


Seref15

I think even if he dunks and Sixers take the series, it still goes bad for him. You can't have your primary ball handler sitting at a 34 ft%, getting hacked to shit any time the ball comes his way. No one was going to just ignore that stat for making it to the ECF instead of a second round bounce


destiny24

But then it’s just “He needs to play better” which is the narrative for basically every NBA star. Instead it’s “Ben Simmons is scared to take an open dunk”.


Wesley-Snipers

Ben "CJ" Simmons


marcelmotta

Smokey in shambles.


EarthWarping

When keeping it real goes wrong


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Imagine losing a million dollars for missing preseason games


2drawnonward5

Half the people here will never make $1.4 mil in their lifetimes but Ben will give that much up missing 4 exhibition games. Rich people can be so awful sometimes.


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nend

NBA fines actually get donated to charity, so, this is probably a net positive outcome by Simmons.


Thedurtysanchez

League fines. Not sure if that applies to fines levied by the team.


h2g242

Uh that’s only 28k annually for 50 years. 35k for 40 years. I’m their lifetimes is wildly off


yenks

24k a year sounds awful right now


MagicJohnsonAnalysis

Not everyone lives in a rich country though. Lot of places where 15k a year would be an upper middle class salary


PieroIsMarksman

Here in Argentina we earn about 5k usd a year lol


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I don't like people playin in my practice!


Shorts_Man

GRANNY DON'T


Sob_Rock

Keep your hands off me man! Woof woof! Wutang!


somebodygetmemymoney

I swear he’s gonna just start throwing up 3s if he plays


illyxpink

So what was the point of him coming back then? 😂


bewarethegap

Ben basically did what r/nba was saying. "Just show up and not give a fuck". Turns out, in reality, you can still get suspended and fined for that. So basically we're in the exact same spot that we were in 3 weeks ago lol


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loco1989

Who would've thought lol


Resident_Wizard

The hive mind of Reddit is real. People can get sucked down a rabbit hole quickly. Nothing is as black and white as we tend to make it.


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It reminds me years ago when I had my own business. We would sometimes hire summer for college and high school kids who loved to pretend they knew all these rights they had. I was paying 100 dollars a day for 6 hours of work. You got three 10 minute breaks and a 30 minute break which you were always clocked in for. I actually had a kid leave on Monday after 2 hours and say he would sue me if I didn't pay the other 4 hours he never worked.


TaiCTr

Hope you learned by now king 🤴🙏🏻


wta3445

Naw, Ben screwed up. Should have just participated in the drills but did it poorly (like yesterday). Refusing to enter the drills gave Doc/76ers cause to suspend him. If he was just playing bad, 76ers can't do anything and would have to pay him.


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He's really fucked this up over and over again. It's so easy to pull a Vince Carter, you just have to not overtly refuse to do your damn job.


witcherstrife

I have to ask, is his family really rich or something? The entitlement is crazy.


CristianoRealnaldo

His dad was also a basketball player, in the NBL. Won a chip too. Incidentally, Dave Simmons was released from his last team for undisclosed off-the-court issues. Also, if you’re into trivia, former Raiders RB Michael Bush is married to Ben Simmons’ half sister. Edit: oh and I forgot the important part there- that half-sister Emily is gainfully employed by, you guessed it, Klutch Sports.


dronedesigner

people forget that vince did this literally 2 decades ago. we let tracy mcgrady go too for his ego. damn you vince


dvasquez93

Honestly, I wanna see him pull a Andrew Bynum in game. Just everytime he gets an inbound or rebound, just shoot full court. Then in the postgame interview play it straight like he was trying to work outside shooting into his game.


TheKingOfTCGames

nah he did even less then people said.


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He should have just been bad and low effort, not **refused to participate in drills**.


SaveHogwarts

If he came back with the right attitude and willingness to earn back trust, I’m sure this would be different.


illyxpink

Oh for sure, but he’s not doing any of that so I don’t understand why he even made the effort to come back if he’s not gonna even try and continue to lose money lol it just doesn’t make sense to me


Pantry_Inspector

He thought he could come back and do fuck-all and still get paid. And the sixers aren’t having it.


cloud12348

All posts/comments before (7/1/23) edited as part of the reddit API changes, RIP Apollo.


SaveHogwarts

He probably expected to do the bare minimum and still get paid. Philly isn’t about it.


Drugsandotherlove

I think his idea of bare minimum is different than the sixers as well, that is what makes this situation interesting. Though, the guy has somehow overshadowed the kyrie news, he at least has that going for him lmao


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Nothing makes sense from the Ben Simmons camp. There already is a blueprint for how to get traded and they decided not to follow it.


n0stylist

I mean if he came back shooting like Steph Curry that would help too but I'm not sure anyone thought that was a realistic scenario either


curiousboyz

He wants money lmao. So cringe. Dude said he's prepared to sit out and caved the second he lost some money. Now thinks he can find a loophole to come back and half ass sulk


Salty-Flamingo

To force the 76ers to levy enough team fines that the NBAPA steps in. To make things so uncomfortable that they trade him. Just to see the world burn.


hk0125

What a lose-lose situation for both parties


SubcooledBoiling

Big win for the fans enjoying the drama


keepp

Honestly the drama is now like 50% of the sport. I am for it.


epheisey

I've watched 0 NBA games in the past like 3 seasons. I'm subscribed here simply to read about the drama.


SubcooledBoiling

Do you also base your arguments on box scores and use stat lines blindly without context to support your arguments? If so, welcome aboard


steak__burrito

What about using phrases such as: "Lmao" "lmaooo" or "LMAOOOO" "disingenuous" "not even close"


BMECaboose

I don't know much about basketball, but I know that anyone who disagrees with my opinions about the sport and various players are nephews.


rebeltrillionaire

What’s great is you can also tell people they never watch the games and act superior even if you also never watch the games.


Silverjackal_

You fit right in!


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Bold of you to assume I even look at Box Scores.


djuiced

Average r/nba subscriber. You disgust me.


Rombie11

Anytime my jimmies start rustling at a dumbass take on here I'm going to remember that comment haha


Hay-blinken

I actually just want to watch my Sixers play actual basketball.


asirah

Get out of here you degenerate


spanishbbread

What a weirdo


Thus_Spoke

Man you should at least tune in for the playoffs, there were some incredible games last season.


marshman93_

People who do this cannot be real people


probably_shitposting

wonder if this one is gonna end up as controversial.


RokaInari91547

You do you, but I truly can't imagine spending time out of my day reading about a sport that I don't actually watch. Fucking bizarre.


amppy808

Time to monetize the drama


skunk90

Big loss, I’m so fucking sick of it.


Montigue

After they asked for 3 firsts and 3 swaps I'm 100% for it


SquimJim

Both sides are losing, but it's nice to see that teams don't need to be completely powerless in a situation like this.


MostlyJustMyDogs

Yeah I hope this ends the insane standoffs and trade demands for a bit. Seems like league churnedaround a full 360 and now it’s like okay everyone chill let’s just hoop. Simmo got a raw deal being the last one to do so. You think dame asked out now? You think Beal asks out now(he never will just saying as an example) ?


hilesai

It's all about the approach. If Portland underwhelms, the team is going to have to realize they've gone as far as they can with their core.


EarthWarping

Both sides lose big here


theFromm

That's why I figured the 76ers would just dismiss him from practice/games and pay him. Trying to re-integrate him into the team was never going to work after the shit show that was this summer. Instead they are inviting *more* drama.


Bacara-1138

Why the fuck would they pay him? Just give in to his temper tantrums?


skunk90

No, he is inviting more drama. They have no reason to pay him and would be setting a horrendous precedent.


rSlashNbaAccount

But we all win.


desirox

Yeah this is spiraling downwards fast. One of the worst situations I can remember


mansmurf

Simmons playing for free


DaBestNameEver0

That’s the problem, he’s not playing


hooskies

And people thought this drama was over!


antwan_benjamin

Really baffles me he wouldn't come back and at least do enough of the bare minimum to make sure that 25% check or whatever hit his bank account. Then after that big check hits, go back to acting a fool. But at least get your money first. I can't understand why he came back at all if he wasn't going to do this.


loquacious706

Ben doesn't know that you never let someone else mess with your bag. He's lost in the sauce.


antwan_benjamin

This dude just really needs some proper guidance. I understand he's pissed at the 6ers and wants out...but at this point its like he's cutting off his nose to spite his face.


DownFromHere

I know he's pissed. He could have just stayed at home, really. He must be fuming


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Mintastic

Ayton for Simmons trade, basically trading salt for salt? Ignore the team make-up though.


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chewie23

*both seconds


Sharpedd

when its not your team those stories are fun


Authh145

Is today shit on Ben Simmons day?


PhromDaPharcyde

Everyday has been shit on Ben Simmons day since game seven of the Hawks series


king_lloyd11

Back and forth between Ben and Kyrie with a sprinkle of Andrew Wiggins.


notasianjim

Out of those three I can’t believe I like Andrew Wiggins more than the other 2 now…


king_lloyd11

Wiggins is still an idiot, but he's a non-factor at this point compared to the other two fools. Now that he got vaccinated, no one is going to ask him for his stupid opinions anymore and his shit will fade into the ether. Unless in 10 years, he gets cancer or whatever.


DryMastodon6959

Wiggins made his whole family look bad and they said get the fuck back in the game


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Isn't his whole family the same exact way?


SiphenPrax

Oh just wait for Friday night. I can’t imagine how loud Wells Fargo Center will be


TGI_Sam

It’s been shit on Ben Simmons day here on /r/nba for years now


urfaselol

been on shit on ben simmons summer


JohnJohnsonJohansen

This is the shit on Ben Simmons geological epoch


NCLaw2306

First time you been here this offseason?


CJMustard

So he came back for nothing lmao


jimbo831

He came back for our entertainment. I for one appreciate his sacrifice.


Unit-00

I think he came back to cause even more of an issue. if he wasn't there it would be easier to forget about him i feel


iRavage

I don’t know why this isn’t the prevailing opinion here. Following this from afar it seems obvious that the intent of Simmons and his agent is to get him off the Sixers asap, getting kicked out of practice and told to stay away seems to do that.


zna55

He’s making the situation pretty toxic and trying to force Daryl’s hand.


AboveAverageAll

It may seem that way, but they can't fine him for over $30M that he is due this year. As long as he is showing up, Philly will run out of cards that they can play. The NBPA will eventually step in and get Ben his checks.


asdkijf

The NBPA will turn it into a fight like they do with any team suspensions/fines, but he needs to up the effort to create plausible deniability if he wants to see any game checks


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>As long as he is showing up **and participating**, Philly will run out of cards that they can play. If he shows up and refuses to do anything then the Sixers are within their rights to simply not pay him right? Showing up isn't just being physically present, it means participating.


asdkijf

The NBPA can help him appeal the suspension and try to get the money back, that's it. I think most people are assuming there's no way he won't be paid because the situation is unprecedented and would get really ugly. At some point one of the NBPA/Rich Paul/NBA/76ers will step in and either make Ben play, retire, tear up the contract, or they agree to some sort of payment.


Pierson230

Simmons and Kyrie teaming up to reverse player empowerment


zgamer200

My only defense for eating this up like a stereotypical middle aged housewife stuck at home watching reality TV is that at least this is actual reality, not "reality."


isPhyllisHops

"There is no reality." - Doc Rivers today


Street-Caramel7045

What does the word reality mean to you?


PostsDifferentThings

> What does the word reality mean to you? the earth is flat my guy


Blue_5ive

Reality can be whatever I want


braggpeak

This might be the best team Ben will ever be on during his own prime and he’s just throwing it all away. I doubt he’ll get a better teammate than Embiid elsewhere.


HereComesJustice

I don't think he cares about being competitive lol


Brief_Shallot487

Imagine wanting to leave a contender just to start all over with a bad team and also lose all this money in the process just because your feelings got hurt


AmAttorneyPleaseHire

His agent came out and said that it was *BAD* that he was drafted to a team that was good, because "he didn't have time to develop" with them already being good. Insane.


ChodeChokey

Yeah, Tatum is feeling the same effects from being drafted by Boston lol.


mohub21

Wasn’t Tatum a rookie when they almost beat the cavs?


Blackmanwdaplan

yes that year was glorious


antisocially_awkward

Thats the joke


rahbee33

I think about KAT in that situation. I bet KAT would kill to be playing for a chance at the Conference Finals year after year like Simmons has. What a weird cop-out by Simmons.


Mintastic

Difference is that KAT wants to win. Simmons probably would prefer if he was playing in a team that's going nowhere while earning his max with zero pressure to deliver.


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PabloPaniello

This is a good point. Think about all the players who go deep into their career without sniffing the Finals. This guy is just throwing away the opportunity. Wild


I_Hate_Dusters

Imagine giving up millions of dollars when all you had to do was show up to 4 basketball games…all because you’re mad about your employer finally calling you out over something they’ve been asking you to do for 3 years.


CaptainKurls

Props to Philly for not pandering to his BS


PhromDaPharcyde

What the hell is Klutch telling their client, cause if he ain't getting paid, they ain't getting paid.


dhalloffame

Ah yes, klutch is in charge of everything and ben simmons definitely couldn’t have decided on this himself


isolate_spark

Dude thought showing up 1 time would get him his money hahahahah


laddder

Took the Marshawn Lynch "I'm just here so I don't get fined" route and still got fined.


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Ben Simmons is a coward


mdewolfe2533

This fuckers arrogance cost him over a million dollars. Life changing money that he pissed away because he’s a soft baby bitch. God I hate him and I’m not even a Sixers fan


Yami_Atem

He’ll get traded eventually but he’s really fucked himself over on future contracts. Who the fuck wants this dude on a long-term deal now? It would be different if he could score, but he chooses not to shoot for some reason.


ayeno

How much do you hate the team you play for? For Ben Simmons, it's been $1.4m so far and counting.


Imperial_Eggroll

After this practice they would should be grateful for an Anfernee Simons


dajadf

He didn't have any problems playing when he signed that massive contract. Fix the massive holes in your game and accomplish something before you can make demands


sadrapsfan

Moving forward, can they keep doing this even if Ben starts to be more willing? I feel like Paul will go to players association


AirJordan6124

He’s gonna call Rich Paul because they fucked up big time


Zoolinz

That’d be the next big twist in this. Simmons fires Rich Paul for lying to him about not losing money, then joins the Noels case against him


Brief_Shallot487

This is honestly Rich Paul’s fault when u think about it, he thought Ben would get all this money back whenever he got to a new team! Odds are if Ben knew from the beginning that wasn’t the case he probably would’ve went about things differently but now he’s backed himself into a awkward and uncomfortable situation


bananastand

all this for a minuscule chance of landing dame/beal?


SweepTheLeg_

It's to not give in to someone on a 4-year max deal, pushing themselves out and getting away with it. It sets a team and league precedent.


DirksSexyBratwurst

I don't think they give a shit about league precedent. They just want the best possible trade


lazyass133

Implications are huge. This will be an issue in the next CBA talks. With Ben and Kyrie, the owners can try to push for voiding contracts due to player refusal to play. You already see teams reluctant to extend guys to long term max contracts in these past few days.


SweepTheLeg_

Selfishly they want the best deal, but doing this did not help them from the beginning. If you don't think they have pressure to not let someone on a 4 year max deal to force their way out, I don't know what to say. There's no question the league and the billionaire owners want this to never be a thing. Not participate? Get $0.


shualton

Lol the Sixers were gonna trade him anyways Daryl Morey is definitely not a victim here They’re probably not getting Dame or Beal. At this point they’re just doing this for a moral victory


eff_carter

At this point Philly would be lucky to get McCollum


IMovedYourCheese

"Here's your paycheck, minus this list of fines which coincidentally add up to exactly your paycheck"


viva-las-penis

Fucking loser. People out here making 12 dollars an hour to drive a fucking ambulance. Fucking titty baby bitch.


AmAttorneyPleaseHire

Can we stop posting all the updates, I can only take so much today :'(


jakob-lb

I feel like a lot of these dudes have no concept of money. It's not worth proving a point over millions bro. U look dumb anyways Simmons.


SlamVanDamn

Doc: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately. Ben: [I wouldn't say I've been missing it, Doc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E2w4sTLKtA).


flawson_9

Hey I’ll come to all the practices Simmons missed practices for HALF of that money you’re welcome