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I don't know why you need your phone on you at basketball practice. But I think he might be just setting, like his goal here might be to just show how disinterested he is, so he does get sent home. He just starts playing Candy Crush on his phone. He's playing Snake. Yeah. I was gonna say snoo'd and you you you dated I went older yeah I was snooed also dated us dude which one was snooed snooed was the one where you like the thing went like this I think and then you shot it okay you try to is that was that snooed that's no that's absolutely I'm really dating myself now snooed was awesome I remember snooed but either way Ben Simmons pointing over to her and I'd say because I

don't know if you saw but Joel on bead afterwards, he hates this guy. He said at this point, I don't care about that man. That's a that's just like to not even say his name. I don't care about that man. He also said he's not a babysitter. Everyone on the Sixers hates Ben Simmons. There are some people who are like, well, he's gonna get traded.

I still maintain that I think Ben Simmons

probably could have played this a little bit better

like showing up.

They're not gonna trade them for nobody.

Yeah, they're gonna wait to see

if they can get somebody good for them.

And what he's just doing is basically just showing up,

trying to communicate how disinterested as well,

still showing up for practice.

Yes. You should just warn jeans on the court.

It's it's did you ever have a guy like that on a team that you played on that would wear jeans during practice? Well, the phone thing when you play like pickup hoops out, you know, like I remember he split pickup hoops outside and there was a guy who would come in jeans and he'd have his phone on him. So he's basically there. Yeah, I had a guy in my high school team that would wear jeans to practice, but he was also the best guy on the team.

So it was fine. You can get away with having your phone on you at practice if you're Michael Jordan. Right. You can do that if I guarantee you- He's got cargo pants, jeans. I guarantee you that Kyrie Irving has his cell phone on him at all times, even during games, doing his own research. What's that? That's new. Remember suit?

Yeah.

Yeah, it was awesome.

It was great. I have a take on Ben Simmons here because we've set on the show that Ben Simmons would be the best basketball player in the NBA if there was no basket. Right. Or if he switched which hand he used. Yeah. Well, you think that he's non-dexterous. Right. might be right hand. I think he doesn't know. He doesn't know. He's figuring it out. He's like

Billy when he went to college and was like am I think he doesn't know. He doesn't know. He's figuring it out.

He's like Billy when he went to college and was like, am I a quarterback or a wide receiver? He's experimenting. He should experiment and he should get, he's dex curious. Yes. But I think at this point Ben Simmons should just quit playing basketball. I think he should quit. Okay. I think he just doesn't like it. is pretty obvious that he doesn't like playing basketball and it's got to be

tough on a guy like hypothetically, now granted he has made $56 million. Give me a say, counterpoint. Yes, making money is cool. That's very fun. But I still think that Ben Simmons just doesn't like playing basketball. And if that's the truth, and he's built to be a basketball player. His body type is basketball, his dad played basketball. He probably grew up his entire life being by far the best basketball player that anybody knew around him. But at some point, if you don't actually like playing it, yeah, that's almost a curse. Taking away the money that you've made, which is obviously great. So it's, I don't wanna say, like, I don't to feel too bad for the guy but at the same time

But he's just if he doesn't like doing it

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