Anfernee Simons is already making a name for himself in the NBA, but it has nothing to do with anything he has done on the court. The Portland Trail Blazers rookie has a puzzling theory about the wetness of water:
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It kind of makes sense, right? Water is just water. It's everything else that gets wet. It almost makes too much sense.
Obviously, most people are going to equate Simons' wetness take with Kyrie Irving's flat Earth theory — that he has subsequently backed off of. But there is a much more apt comparison for Simons here.
Michael Beasley once argued that we only use 10 percent of our brains, but the person who discovered that must have used 11 percent of his brain to figure that out. If it sounds confusing, it's because it is. Beasley was riffing on SNY's Timeout with Taylor Rooks when he made the legendary statement.
Simon's take on wetness probably makes more sense than Beasley's take on the human brain, but both fall under the category of galaxy brain thinking.
This isn't the first time Simons is going against the grain. He's a prep-to-pros prospect who didn't spend any time playing college basketball. The NBA requires players to either be 19 years old or one year removed from high school before entering the draft. Simons attended IMG Academy to prepare for the draft rather than going the route of a traditional college.
Simons, a late first-rounder, could pave the way for other prospects who decide to skip college and use that time to train for the draft.
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