Ben Simmons Opens Up About His Battle Returning From Injuries and the Philadelphia 76ers

The Young Man and the Three

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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This week on The Young Man and the Three we welcome Ben Simmons of the Brooklyn Nets, hosted by his teammate Cam Johnson. The episode begins with Tommy and Jason talking to Trey Murphy III of the New Orleans Pelicans about the Pelicans’ hot streak, the play of CJ McCollum, and things that have caught their eye around the league recently (Hint: it’s Cade Cunningham and CP3). Then Cam and Ben discuss Ben’s return from injuries and surgeries and the battles that rehab requires, including Ben questioning if he wanted to continue playing basketball. Then, Ben talks about his mindset when it comes to people talking sh*t to him. He also reflects about his time with the Philadelphia 76ers and what he appreciated about playing in Philly. Ben also opens up out his upbringing in Australia and his fishing hobby. Cam and Ben then share why they enjoy playing with ‘sickos’ like JJ Redick and Jimmy Butler. Toward the end of their conversation, they discuss some of their favorite playmakers in the NBA like Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic, Trae Young, and more. We close out the episode with Trey, Tommy, and Jason drafting NBA players past and present that they’d least want to get stuck in an elevator with. Let’s go!

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0:00 Intro

6:42 Ben Simmons and Cam Johnson

01:18:21 Draft

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0:00.0	You're listening ad-free on Wondry Plus.
0:26.2	Welcome to episode 12, The Young Man in the Three, presented by 342 Productions.
0:29.7	Trey Murphy, Jason Gallagher, joining us.
0:34.8	Today's guest is Mr. Ben Simmons with our old friend Cam Johnson joining us.
0:36.6	Jason, Trey, what's up, boys? It's good, brother. Good to be here.
0:40.8	Trey's pissed because we interrupted his video game to hop on the stream with us.
0:47.3	I will not be streaming, but if people want to play Call the Duty, I will be willing to play
0:51.9	Call of Duty with some people. So, drop your
0:55.8	bio, drop your, what's called? Gameer tags
0:58.2	in there. Pelicans
1:00.1	four-game winning streak,
1:01.8	Trey, uh, falling as usual.
1:04.2	Um, what's gotten into CJ?
1:07.0	Uh, I think he's just being aggressive.
1:09.5	And, uh, he also told him he was going to go on like a tear coming up soon.
1:13.9	He was working on his game a lot and this was probably like a month ago.
1:19.9	And he's just like he's going to lock back in and get his shot back right because I think a lot of it was he just wasn't feeling good with a jump shot so
1:28.2	he's probably a whole lot of confidence right now um before we uh before we get to the interview and
1:34.5	we're going to do a draft a little bit later uh I thought it would be interesting for all of us maybe
1:38.8	to pick out one thing from the week that we've like seeing that we've been impressed by that has kind of
1:45.5	stood out. Trey, you start. Is there something non-teammate related that has stood out to you
1:50.8	recently? I probably have to say Kate Cunningham. He's been, he's been hooping. He's been
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