You got a messy locker room situation.

I don't know if Doc Rivers is the first guy on my list that I'm going to have come in and handle it.

This is the opening day mailbag extravaganza for the Athletic MBA show podcast. I believe we're live now. I think we kicked Jade Hoy out of practice after he had his phone in his pocket. He didn't set this thing live. You can submit questions in the chat. You can submit questions all over social media with the hashtag Ask Dave. And we'll get to him. We'll get to him. We'll have fun. We're going to have Nate Duncan stopping by, David Aldridge, Marcus Thompson. We'll take your questions. We'll talk about all the storylines, not just Ben Simmons. And what's the way to put this? And his asshattery of a way to get thrown out of Philadelphia and traded out of Philadelphia. Like, here's the thing. it's so unprofessional and yet I'm in. Like, I just, I'm in on the chaos of it all. Well, you said this in the pre-recording before we, when we thought we were alive. Before we thought we were alive or when we thought we were alive? Well, we thought we were alive, but we weren't actually lie. But this is what he should have been doing from day one. Like this is, it's, it actually pushes everything for the timeline quicker ahead of time now.

Now he just lost money in the process of doing it by not showing up and everything that went with it.

I'm just fascinated by this because I really think the funny thing is once the season starts, 20 games into it, 30 games into it. I still don't think he'll be traded, but teams that thought they were going to be good are going to have realized like, oh, we kind of suck. And then I think that's where the market will, then I think the market will lift pretty quick. That's the thing, trade. This is what kills me is right. And the Kings fans, you're not going to like, but I'm going to throw you, I'm going to throw your team under the bus here, right? The Sacramento kinks are like, I don't know if we want to trade for them, right? And that might be maybe negotiation posturing right there. They haven't made the playoffs since the departed was in theaters. That's not an exaggeration.

The departed was in theaters.

It has won an Oscar.

It has won awards.

It has been regarded.

It has been dissected.

It is all over, I don't know, T&T and AMC and all this stuff, right?

It's everywhere for the last 15 years.

By the time the kings have a chance to make the playoffs again, it'll be 16 years.

That the departed can drive, can drive, it can get its license. And we don't have. That rat's been

dead for a decade. It's been dead for a decade. That thing crawling around the the rooftops of Boston

and trade. Like the idea that the Kings were like,

I don't know if we want to trade these guys for Ben Simmons.

Look, Ben Simmons is going to solve your problems,

but he would be the best player in your team immediately.

Yeah, I mean, hey, they rather hang on to Fox Halliburton and Mitchell.

You know, like they've done the coach reset

and they believe in their young guys and they just feel like, I mean, at this point, does a person fix it immediately when they arrive?

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