Vertical Limit wrote:So many senseless commentary by fans and espn.
Ben Simmons has 4 years 145 million left on a contract he signed in the offseason. Unless Philadelphia gets him to retire, or offer 3 first round picks plus Seth, no team is going to absorb the contract just because Philadelphia does not want him anymore.
He is going to be a sixer next year and theyre going to have to spend countless hours developing his shooting form.
This is the first time Dwight Howard was the second worst free throw shooter in a team he plays for.
Also lets not ignore that Embiid has his share of blame yesterday. 8 turnovers. He is ALWAYS injured. Always. Theres never a season when he doesnt have an ankle or a knee issue. Hes going to get surgery and may not even be available for the start of the upcoming season.
His cardio/stamina is terrible. He is probably about 15-20 lbs overweight to be in “Heat shape”. Like Charles Barkley said about Anthony Davis, in your mid 20s youre suppose to be super human. All these injuries esrly on is a bad sign of whata to come when youre in your early 30s. There is something wrong with Embiids strength and conditioning programming.
Nearly everyone is tradable, in the last few years "untradeable players" like Wiggins, Wall, Westbrook, and even CP3 were all traded.
Just look at Portland, if they stick with Dame(which I expect they will) they may be willing to move CJ(3 years nearly 100 mil) to get some defensive help at the wings. They can replace CJ's position at SG internally with Powell or Simons(Afernee) and have Ben Simmons be their wing stopper, but that also means they have to find more shooting at one of the wings and a stretch center.
Of course, you have to know Sam Presti is ready to turn Kemba Walker into Ben Simmons in hopes of making him better and getting more out of him.
How about Toronto sign and trade Lowry to Philly for Simmons? They could roll with a frontcourt of Simmons and Siakam.
There will be other teams devoid of talent willing to roll the dice on Simmons, Philly will have options. Whoever ends up with Ben better utilize him as basically an old school PF vs a ball handler in the half court.
