Grant's Rant: 4-4-22 Ben Simmons Embarrassment

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Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Ben Simmons has filed a grievance to challenge the $20 million in salary withheld by the 76ers. So a guy doesn't need to show up for work and when he does he goes through the motions and gets kicked out of practice by Doc Rivers. Simmons didn't play in any games, was unprofessional and didn't live up to his terms of his contract. Now he wants his money? Embarrassing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's time for Grant.
0:03.0	Grant.
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0:22.2	basketball player, be employed by the National Basketball Association
0:27.9	where you don't have to go to work, you don't even have to show up the training camp, you can blow
0:32.2	off your coaches, you can blow off your
0:34.0	teammates, and then you can just show up whenever you want, and then when you do show up, you
0:39.0	kind of go through the motions and practice. You have your cell phone in your gym shorts, okay?
0:45.0	You get kicked out of practice.
0:46.7	You don't play in a game, and you file a 20 million dollar
0:52.4	grievance against your former employer.
0:56.1	I'm talking about Ben Simmons, who now is a member of the Brooklynettes,
1:01.0	has yet to play a game because of back issues.
1:04.4	How about that?
1:05.4	The grievance will now go to arbitration.
1:08.8	How about that?
1:09.9	Ben Simmons thinks that the Philadelphia 76ers should pay him $20 million for not showing up and going to work.
1:21.0	Only in professional sports. Seriously, only in the NBA. Simmons agent,
1:27.5	Rich Paul of clutch sports, requested a trade in the post season. Of course, it went all the way until the trade deadline.
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