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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Wednesday, October 20th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. Ben Simmons doesn't want to play or even practice with the Philadelphia 76ers anymore.

So Coach Doc Rivers kicked out the All-Star Guard and suspended him for the season opener.

Joelle M. Bede put Simmons on blast. At this point, I don't care about the man. He does whatever he wants.

Embed said. You know, here's the deal. I think the quote is he says, because he says, I don't care about that man. And people are saying that he said, I don't care about that man. And I think he's saying, I don't care about that man. It's weird. It's weird. But he should say it that way. I don't care about that. He doesn't care about all that's going on over there.

If he says, I don't care about that man that's a little more harsh, a little more pointed. Like, he means nothing to me. But then he goes on to say he does whatever he... He doesn't want to babysit and stuff like that. He says he does whatever he wants. He's talking about Ben Simmons. Yeah. So he's saying, I don't care about that, man. He does whatever he wants.

I don't care about that, man.

Oh, right.

I see what you're saying.

I don't care about that, man.

No, there's a difference between that man he does whatever he wants as opposed to I don't care about that man does whatever he wants to you know what I mean there is a difference in the inflection there's more just it's more dismissive yeah he he is saying he does not want to be associated with it.

And he's not going to be distracted.

Right, right, yeah.

Simms refused to play as a full participant at Tuesday's practice a day after he lingered outside a team model

and mostly stayed alone in a corner without talking to teammates.

And Bid dropped multiple references Tuesday to not working as a babysitter anymore

for the 25-year-old Australian Guard who still has four years and $147 million left on his contract.

I'm not here to babysit.

And Bede said, I'd be willing to babysit if somebody wants to listen, but that's not my job.

That's out of my control.

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