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The Nets and the Celtics locked up in a close game,

final moments of the first half, and there's no Ben Simmons.

How about Ben Simmons?

Seriously.

Let down, I did a rant on this this morning.

Let his teammates at LSU down. Let his teammates in Philadelphia and

the 76ers organization down. And here we are, after everyone thinking that Ben Simmons would make his return for

game four with the Nets trailing three love and he does not play because of back soreness.

Yeah. How about that? Talk about a fraud. Is there any other way to describe Ben Simmons?

The guy's a fraud. He's an absolute fraud and the fact that he and his agent feel like that they are entitled to $20 million in back pay, money that Philadelphia did not pay him

because he didn't want to go to work and did not want to play is appalling.

I mean it really is. How about Ben... not want Ben Simmons is appalling.

I mean it really is.

How about Ben Simmons?

Seriously.

Would you want Ben Simmons on your team?

And you know, Kevin Durant and Kairi Irving has been,

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