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Since I've spent so much of the last three years, talking about the Brooklyn Nets.

It only seems fitting that my New Year's resolution be about Ben Simmons and being nicer to him.

Really, it's sort of simple.

The things that Ben Simmons did that drove me insane are mostly in the past.

He's a product of other people trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. And you know what? That's not what the Nets are doing right now. They're using Ben Simmons like the type of tool he is. Since he got back onto the court, Ben Simmons has been, let's be honest, like very good. Very good. Like, great. Kind kind of great and he's a huge reason that the

nets are the hottest team in the NBA right now besides Jacques Bond how good has Ben

Simmons been of late he has the net's best net rating on the team plus 21.7 he has the best

defensive rating on the team 10 106.6.6.

And get this, folks. Ben Simmons.

Ben fucking Simmons.

This is insane. I had to check and recheck.

Has the highest offensive rating, highest offensive rating of any starter on the nets.

127.9.

Highest total rating, highest defensive rating, highest offensive rating.

Do you remember that this team has Kyrie Irving and Kevin fucking Durant?

The question is, how's way?

Hell.

Leave it to Kyrie to explain it.

He said, I think he could probably answer that better, but it's me as a teammate, just seeing him smile.

Have fun. Be competitive. That's him being himself.

So anytime he could just be himself and trust that we have his back, I feel like that's the best version of himself.

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