The 2021-22 NBA season is several months deep, but the Philadelphia 76ers saga with Ben Simmons has yet to resolve, The Sixers guard-forward has played a grand total of zero minutes this season, and there seems to be no definite time when he would finally show up and play. For Denver Nuggets guard Austin Rivers — a complete outsider but whose dad is Sixers head coach Doc Rivers — he doesn't believe that Simmons will ever play for Philly again.
Via TMZ Sports:
“No man, probably not. I don’t think so,” Rivers answered. “If he hasn’t suited up by now, then I don’t think so.”
Austin says his dad and the team have done everything in their power to retain the 25-year-old … despite Simmons' desire to be traded.
“S***, they tried, bro,” he said. “Look how long it’s been. I think they tried to keep him. He wants to go somewhere else obviously.”
With the NBA trade deadline rapidly approaching, expect Simmons' name to come up in countless rumors, though the latest on him is that he's unlikely to be moved after it was reported that the star's agent, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul and Sixers executives met but failed to make any progress.
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