Ben Simmons comes to the 76ers front door unannounced; Kyrie won't play or practice until he is a full participant

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

Sports, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.7 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Derek Bodner is here and we chat about the two dominant NBA storylines of the preseason that came to a head on Tuesday: Ben Simmons coming to the front door of the 76ers unannounced to return to the team, and Kyrie Irving being ruled out of all basketball activities until something changes with his vaccination status or the rules allowing him to play in home games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.
0:07.9	I'm your own.
0:08.3	Sam Vesini.
0:08.8	We're presented by The Athletic today on the show.
0:11.1	We got a glorious gift from the heavens yesterday.
0:15.6	It was Ben Simmons randomly showing up to the Wells Fargo Arena in Philadelphia.
0:21.9	So to talk about Ben Simmons return, I've brought on Derek Bodner, our incredible Philadelphia
0:29.6	76ers beat writer and multi-time guests of the Game Theory podcast to talk about the Ben
0:36.0	Simmons saga with Philadelphia. Derek, did this
0:40.1	just like, what were you thinking when you saw this yesterday? Well, I mean, you said randomly
0:45.7	show up at the Wells Fargo Center. And it really was he randomly showed up at the Wells Fargo Center.
0:51.8	The Sixers did not know he was coming in.
0:55.3	The Sixers were in contact with Rich Paul, his agent.
0:58.7	They still did not know he was coming in.
1:00.7	A lot of the Sixers, both personnel and players, hadn't talked to Ben Simmons.
1:06.8	Joel and Joel in Beatt's case, literally since the season ended.
1:13.9	So nobody had any idea he was going to show up last night.
1:16.4	There was obviously the report earlier in the day.
1:24.1	Adrian Wojianowski had it, our own champsirani, at the athletic had it, that they were progressing towards Ben returning to Philadelphia.
1:28.3	Well, that progression towards turned into Ben, like, literally outside of the door phoning Elton Brand and being like, hey, I'm here in a matter of
1:33.2	hours. I think it was, again, I think it was Woj who said that the way that it went down from
1:38.1	the Sixers perspective is Ben was outside of the front door, texted Elton Brand and said he
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