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Daily Ding: "Ben Simmons is in the building" with Rich Hofmann

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🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Philadelphia 76ers beat writer Rich Hofmann joins Jared Weiss to discuss the latest in the Ben Simmons saga.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Daily Ding on the Athletic MBA show.

0:17.7

I am Jared Weiss and I'm joined by our Sixers beat writer, Rich Hoffman,

0:21.9

talk about, I don't know, shake Milton's fit in the rotation. Is there anything else we

0:25.9

could talk about? Maybe Ben Simmons, I guess. Maybe a little bit. Maybe a little Isaiah

0:30.1

Joe talk if we, uh, if we have a little time. But, uh, we'll have a bonus pot for Isaiah

0:34.5

Joe, obviously. But let's talk about Ben Simmons because he's in town.

0:39.8

And apparently his house is up for sale.

0:42.8

There's been plenty of Twitter investigation on that one.

0:45.4

And he came into town to get his COVID testing done and didn't tell anybody.

0:50.9

So what the hell is going on?

0:53.1

Basically that.

0:54.0

He didn't tell anybody. And it went from,

0:56.5

you know, about a week ago, him saying, hey, I'm, I understand the financial ramifications of my

1:02.7

holdout. I'm willing to do this for a long time to three, three preseason games, a million

1:09.1

dollars. That's, that's enough. Let's, uh, let's get back into

1:12.3

town. And yeah, I don't know what his house is like. It's like the, the fresh prince meme, you know,

1:16.5

when he's got the empty, empty living room. But yeah, he is back in Philadelphia to the surprise of the

1:23.0

Sixers, as has been reported. And, uh, what that means from here on,

1:28.3

I'm not exactly sure.

1:29.8

Is he going to play?

1:31.4

Is he going to be actually invested,

1:34.8

like willing to play hard?

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