Exploring The Entire Ben Simmons Saga 

Akhi, I got you!

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If 76ers just took one of the trades they had up until the Brooklyn Harden trade they probably win the East this year.

the akhi way

It truly is. Kids will growing mentioning about that play before they even think about any of Jordan's iconic moments

Like scotty sitting out, or webber timeout or jr smith not knowing how much time left💀

@@JoeKickass324 there should be a compilation of the ultimate shaqtin-a fool moments. JR and Ben definitely would be 1 and 2

Hes the NBAs Mark Sanchez

Hahaha ouch

Very well said! I want this whole thing to end soon

And its still not over. Had a chance to help the Nets and he says his back is hurt 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️ Does he stay on the Nets? Do the nets get anything valuable back by trading him?

@@Checkered_Everything exactly. And how this switched from mental health to back pain is concerning. However Brooklyn has a Kyrie issue right now. I think they let Ben heal and see what he does with KD. But Brooklyn is kinda in chaos.

Ish has been more exhausting than the Majin Buu saga smh

@@Checkered_Everything apparently he got surgery on his back

Underrated comment right here

You put more effort into this comment than Ben did his off season!

Exactly! This story was talked about ad nauseum & Simmons didn't even play a single basketball game during that stretch

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Lmfao I would’ve done the same thing too.

I would have hung up and blocked their number lol

Surprised they took the call to begin with

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Yo being paid 30+ million to chill at home is goated I can't lie

So are the Nets. 😆

Underrated bro 🤣

It had to be done. The whole saga was ruminating in my mind since the back surgery happened

Ben has managed to make me feel better about myself & worse about humanity. I'm torn

The best take I heard about this was "Treat it like a physical injury-have the front office say 'We'll take it seriously and sit you, but we will be in contact with your doctor to make sure you're progressing.'"

this entire saga is a complete mockery too people who actually suffer mental health/

I agree w most of what you’re saying but I think the money and exposure is making his mental health worse. I think he should seriously take time off and let some of that money go. It’s not easy being famous.

@@timtresch4848 fr, if Ben turns out to be bull shitting (like definitive proof), he's just further ruining mental health awareness because he can't be an adult and accept the consequences of staying complacent in his play.

His back is fine.

There was news he had back surgery tho

Agreed! This may really be it. But he could change his mind when he sees his pockets start to drain

He’s a bum

Lol Embiid had to deal with this guy for 5+ years and what's even worse is that the Sixers coddled Simmons his whole career until that Game 7. When people start holding the dude accountable, he quits

Embiid was in the right. This man adjusted his game so Ben had more spacing for his drives, when it should've been the opposite or gone both ways. The only improvements Ben has is defense, and people appreciated that rightfully so. However when the guy he's defending is going off, he has to fight back and he just got scorched in the worst way possible, by not responding.

@@ronaldomendoza7578 Also: kinda interesting that Embiid has gotten crap for shooting too many 3's and seeking too many free throws. Because what were Simmons' 2 biggest offensive liabilities? You guessed it: Shooting and Free Throws!

@@ronaldomendoza7578 he didn't adjust his game. Ben like to drive, with embid in the lineup, he can't. Where are the shooters???

@@eliaskouakou7051 Embiid added 3 point shooting to his game to space out the floor for the Sixers since Ben wasn’t never going to shoot and Seth Curry was Icing on the cake along with Tyrese Maxey off the bench the shooting was THERE. Simmons was the one who didn’t Adjust and didn’t wanna take responsibility.

Wow that's a big compliment right there! You've got me crying out here 😂

Exactly! After watching this video, if you still defend Simmons, I really start to question their intelligence

Yep.

As someone who struggles with depression, I find it pretty easy to put myself in Ben's shoes. First you look at someone like Kawhi, who may people claim quit his way out of SA. He has his own medical people saying his leg was injured, but the SA medical staff cleared him to play. He ended up sitting out all season and then got traded to Toronto. And Kawhi got to grow up in a veteran locker room, under legends. He didn't get drafted and then immediately thrust into a primary role. Maybe Ben truly wants to play and just can't bring himself to overcome his demons on the court. Maybe if he wasn't making millions of dollars and really needed the money, maybe he could find the strength to push forward and carry on. I don't know if he's faking or actually suffering. If it's the former, it's easy for me to dismiss him. But if it's the latter, I definitely feel some empathy for him. Maybe I'm just an idiot.

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@@nickandres7829 He’s A Punk . Edit : Spoiled Punk .

Yes that was some elite trolling right there! Also thank you for the kind words

Thank you for the kind words! I thought making longer videos would make it harder for people to watch. But I've been proven wrong & I'm happy to see it

Just realized I hadn’t subscribed, just did! Looking forward to more videos man

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Wow to start your day off with a vid of mine is crazy for me to think about. Thank you for the support! I know you watched the second channel stuff & that really makes me happy

OMG another comment said the same thing. This is crazy! Thank you thank you!

Well said! (Also from 🇬🇧 - Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 actually).

I love it when I get comments like this. Because I try to make my content as accessible to casual NBA watchers as it can be

@@tooforwon241 appreciate the work my friend

i'm not either because the league has let the inmates run the assylum and every 6 months its a new superstar forcing their way out of a team and they've pushed the league to start inserting politics into the sport any time they can from not only kneeling for the anthem but criticizing Jonathon Issac for choosing to be the one player who stood for the flag then celebrating when Issac got hurt, to the boycott in the bubble for multiple time felon who was actively resisting arrest while he was attempting to kidnap children and was in violation of a restraining order, to announcers advocating for gun control legislation pre-game to the game itself getting homogenized by every team playing the same exactly style of high pick n rolls and spamming 3's. No teams have distinct play styles anymore you don't have teams that are built around a post scoring big, you don't have teams that run complicated offenses like the Princeton etc. Every game just feels like its being determined by spreadsheets and trying to isolate everything into who can shot the most 3pt shots

@@timtresch4848 I agree with everything you said but the big thing for me was the lack of competition. Felt like these dudes in the 90’s genuinely did not like each other when they’re on the court. Not anymore. And if feels like no one runs any plays anymore. Just give it to the star and get out of the way

@@bathcat3759 i can see that too but im younger and my first NBA memory was MJ pushing off of Russell in game 6 of the 98 finals so that was before my time for the most part. Im for free agency and players being able to choose their employer but the NBA has strayed way too far to the other side

Ngl, he still has better drip than me. I'm basically a hermit compared to this

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I'm aiming to hopefully be at a stage where I can do a video like this every week. That'll really be hard tho

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Thank you for showing love! It did take a while. But man was it worth it to see all the support it's gotten

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He's got talent. But I'm not sure he even wants to play to win. It's clear he likes the lifestyle that comes with being a star in the NBA, but when given so many chances in Philly, he couldn't live up to being the first pick & franchise player they wanted him to be

@@tooforwon241 That's why I'm saying he needs some good psychotherapy. He clearly has the physical attributes and the talent. It is all psychological. Please don't reduce it to "he likes the lifestyle that comes with being a star" but you're not sure that "he even wants to play to win." It is way more nuanced than that. Everything can't be simplified to "either/or." The young man needs some help to get his head on straight. That's why I am saying don't give up on him yet. In clinical terms, the behavior you are describing as liking the lifestyle is mostly his overcompensation for feelings of inadequacy. I'll leave it at that. If he gets his thinking right, he can be something special. Probably never in Philadelphia but ask Andre Iguodala what it's like trying to live up to the expectations of the fans and the media in Philadelphia. He talks about it in his book "Sixth Man."

He is getting best therapist he can get. But I have mental issues too, but you don't really know how long it will take to recover from when it comes to mental issues unlike physical issues. If you are psychologist you would know. With all those best therapist, how many sports stars overcome their traumas in short time? Because he needs to get better now, if you want to get paid, sports teams are not charities, brooklyn is paying 30-40millions of dollars for year salary and +@. How can you expect teams to pay him30~40millions when you have no idea when he is going to recover? And they can have allstar level player with that much salary. Reality is tough no job is going to wait for someone more than 2years...people say they are sorry for them but he made how much? 100mil? 150mil? 200mil? And he choose to spend money like it was nothing, I don't feel sorry for him. He might not have spot for nba anymorr but look at the luxury new clothes he's wearing every game. When he's mental state is not good and when he might not recover by the end of his career, he shouldn't spend money like that, and he has like 3more year contract? About 100mil? Yeah, bad for him...because people who suffers mental issues don't usually have that much of money and worry about their future life, and bills to pay monthly. But they have to show to work, because if you don't you are going to the streets, and think about how many people are in situation like that. If he can just givr up on ridiculous luxury life, he is set for life with 100m when he retires. I am not sayin we all should give up on his mental issues, but nba teams and fans does not have to pay millions of his salary when he cannot play, if he is not getting paid, why not, we can wait as long as he wants, his family and friends should not give up on his mental issues, but fans and teams should not pay salary for him to recover from his mental issues. If that happened to normal people who works at the office, would have been fired already with debts they cannot handle by themselves, But he made so much more money than normal people can in their life time. It would take 1000years to earn 100mil with 100,000dollar years salary. Which he will get paid. And he already made how much? 200mil? By the time his contract is over, he made 300mil in 10years. If this was physical injury for other nba players, their career is over. 2years of missing game, doesn't know when he can play, and when he comes back, we don't know how good he will be. Just because its a mental issue, do nba and nba fans have to give him more chance? Players who have injuries didn't ask to be get injured too, what make him special to be treated different?

​@@dw13012 Just because a therapist is highly paid by the team or the league doesn't mean he or she is a great therapist, nor does it mean that the therapist is a good fit for a particular individual. It sometimes takes weeks, months, or years to find the right therapist and do the work that needs to be done. It's up to the team how much they want to pay and how much time they want to wait vs. just cutting their losses and moving on. So, I don't disagree with you on any of what you said. But I do stand by my original point, which was that Ben could work through all of his issues with the right therapist, and with the help of the right mentor, an Andre Iguodala-type player, he could come back strong. But hey, I don't own the team, and I'm not paying his salary, so it's not up to me if the investment they've already made is worth the wait and extra money.

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Appreciate the love! The effort was well worth it

I like doing these longer vids, but they take a lot out of me. I only continue if I see that it pays off

@@tooforwon241 fair enough. Hope it does so we get more from you 💪

Thank you! I still have a lot to learn, but I love how these recent videos have looked

Thank you thank you! I will someday. Her channel isn't growing, so I have a chance. A this pace I'll beat her in 2026. But I'll try to beat it within two years or so

Thank you! It's a grind, so I'm enjoying what I have now knowing that (God forbid) this whole channel could get wiped out at any point

@@tooforwon241 Ben Simmons or ESPN could nuke you at any point, but how straight up and "Fuck you" your thoughts are is one of the reasons you stick out so much. It's probably why it's gonna be harder for you from the jump but why it'll be that more badass when it pays off. Keep the faith brother and don't stop being you

@@44Gulick It's funny cuz I wasn't even alluding to ESPN nuking me. I was just talking about some RU-vid BS that can happen at any point. I think it definitely will get harder, but I have this unyielding confidence that God willing it'll pay off.

Hey man, with time God willing I'll get more subs. I'm enjoying the small community we got here. I'm very confident that the crazy growth will continue

Thank you for the kind words 🧡

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Lol it really wrapped the whole video into a nice bow on top. I really hope that things change tho. Idk what I'll do with myself if he skips th Nets training camp

Lol I was confused when I read this. I assume you mean hooked. If so, thank you for showing love!

@@tooforwon241 yeah I meant hooked I was typing fast.

I wish I could heart comments twice more. Thank you!

Wow thank you! This video has by far the most support & it's not even a top 4 performing vid of my last 10. This makes me so happy

Appreciate that! That is huge praise man. Thank you

Thank you! Always love the support you guys give me

Thank you for the sub! I will for sure keep this momentum going

I hope so too. But I've got a great audience already that I love. I've gotten over 1k views every time I've uploaded since March and that has been so amazing. Thank you guys!

I appreciate it! This took a long time to produce & am so happy you enjoyed it

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Thank you so so much! I put more time into this one than any other vid. The support so far has been awesome

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LMFAO rookie of the year

He's gonna win mvp within the next five years

the kids saying "THANK YOU BEN SIMMONS" was what got me 🤣

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Yessir! Doubled my subscriber base in less than 2 months. Amazing feeling!

Lol I really don't. It is entertaining, but really the NBA owners are gonna step in at some point and it won't be pretty.