https://x.com/bleacherreport/status/1787600939245052024?s=46
This guy has to have become the most cringe professional athlete ever right?
Bro doing everything except playing basketball
Honestly it feels like he just doesn't really like basketball. He's rather do his fashion thing.
I'll also add, maybe there was a time early on he did enjoy basketball but after a few hiccups and incidents (like the missed open layup + getting scolded about it by Doc and the media), he pretty quickly seemed to give up. No "toughness" in his game both physically and mentally. Sometimes a player goes through bumps and bruises along the way and grows, Ben faced it 1-2 times and just dipped lol. And how many years did people say "just wait until he develops a jump shot", he literally never did.
At least guys like Zion, John Wall, Beal, etc., while also frustrating, they still try to play and a lot of what hampers them is injuries especially in Zion's case. Simmons really just quit and is cashing that 170M contract. I don't buy his "injuries" either. Lonzo Ball is practically out of basketball but everyone's aware he's seriously hurt and undergoing surgeries and rehabbing. Simmons' looks like he's just living a second life now.