The Spectacular Fall of Ben Simmons 

Ben-ch Simmons went from All-NBA to All-China 😭

It’s funny how “if he develops a jump shot” became the narrative of his potential but he just needed to take a jump shot to literally progress. Even missing them all would be progress.

One of the most frustrating careers I’ve ever seen play out in NBA history.

In all my life I have never seen a athlete crash and burn like Ben Simmons has

I'm still shocked this dude won Rookie of the Year over both Donovan Mitchell and Jayson Tatum that year, both of whom played their asses off that year

This is what happened When you have no drive to be better and just content in your comfort zone

“Giannis is not afraid to go to the line, he’s not afraid to shoot free throws.” Oof, this didn’t age well after Game 5 vs the Heat

I just gotta thank Ben Simmons. Him leaving Tinashe for Kendall Jenner inspired one of my favorite R&B albums ever

"I never saw a player where one specific moment in a specific game ruined their career" Watch the 95 Magic vs Rockets finals. Nick Anderson missed 4 crucial free throws. He single handedly drained all life from the Magic with that moment and he was never the same again. His decent 70+ free throw % went below 50 after that and he became a huge liability. So it does happen. Simmons issue is confidence. He has none. Why he can shoot 3s under his terms but never when he's needed too. That's his problem and he overwhelmed himself with that and it destroyed him it looks like. He just couldn't handle being in such a high pressure situation.

i just cant believe how fast he fell off it was like instant from him passing the ball in the game 7 vs the hawks in the 2021 playoffs to then being done. no major injury. just went from still good in 2021 to straight up not playing in 2022-23 to then coming back now in the 2023-24 season and sucking ass. it's honestly wild. i really do think he will just straight up retire in a year or two its sad

The fact someone looked at Ben Simmons's output and said "Yes we will pay you like youre a Lebron James" is the real blunder. Love the back and forth conversation videos and the edits. Fun stuff.

It's funny how what Coach Vaughn said about Ben is 10x worse than what Doc said but even Ben knows he doesn't have the leverage to bitch about it. He was coddled in Philly and is realizing that the grass aint greener on the other side

Can’t forget Scottie in the ‘97-‘98 to which he purposely held out with his foot surgery

That moment against the Hawks is mostly on Ben, but damn Matise make your free throws😭😭

That college report saying that he had character issues should have been a bigger concern than it was

I wrote him off when he refused to play in the NIT which caused LSU to not go to the NIT also. UNC did that this year and I wouldn't draft a single player from that UNC team due to it. When you love the game and are a competitor you want to win whatever tourny your invited to.

This video format is so creative it’s just short podcasts I love it

I’ll say this much about him sitting out during his trade request. He seemed to be dealing with some mental health issues so I wouldn’t completely sum it up to just “hurt feelings”, but I do think there was some entitlement there since he tried to reclaim some of the money that he justifiably lost. Just thought I’d add that bit of context in there.

The signs were low key always there. Everybody remembers the Atlanta series but people forget when he scored 1 point in a playoff game his “rookie” year

Should have included that Jimmy Butler clip from JJ Reddick's podcast where he said coach Brown demoted Simmons as the primary ball handler in favor of him. That seemed like the first domino in everything that followed after.

I get so happy when I see a Synthetic Sports video in my sub box

First time here, you guys are freaking hilarious!

Quality content fellaa

I feel like being a basketball player for Ben Simmons was something on his life’s bucket list and not something he actually wanted to do. He made it to the NBA and now he has the money to do everything else on that list

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The fact that the biggest highlight of his NBA career was a play where he unironically passed the ball when he had an open layup. There has never been a single play that so perfectly summed up a player's career...

I seriously think you guys should cover the day Kobe played his final game ESPECIALLY with it lining up at the exact same time the Golden State Warriors were about to become the team with the all time best record in NBA history! No one was able to predict this happening but the NBA still could’ve left Kobe’s last game to be the only one that fell on that day since he obviously was going to retire that year. I, and most likely many others, would love to hear you guys talk about what you remember from both historic games along with the associated bad luck in terms of their timing with each other!

The title is goated lol

All he has to show for his career is “Drafter #1 Overall to the NBA” and “Played in the NBA.” And honestly, with 40 milions in his account, he could just retire, buy a mansion, two rolls’ and just exist for the rest of his life playing golf and sippin’ margaritas.

To be fair a back injury makes it tough to walk, stand or do anything. so if it were a real injury i see no issue with sitting. i heard Lonzo can barely make it up stairs right now. Injuries are not a joke people. Gotta Heal

That 2021 playoff series with Atlanta broke me

i can see ben simmons becoming a twitch streamer who slowly becomes more and more unhinged and eventually goes off the deep end/broke

Question what's your favorite mlb team mine is the dodgers anyways w vid almost forgot because I was playing the show

Ben Simmons really lost all his credibility in one play. I honestly feel that even if Ben improves no one will take him seriously.

That Gianni's free throw take didn't age well. He's clearly scared to shoot FTs 😂

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a lot of these top draft picks these last 10 years haven't aged poorly. Simmons, MCW, Ball, etc

7:15 is top tier funny 😂

Scorecard: Ben Simmons- DNP: Hurt feelings

For me this is horrible but.... Ben makes me appreciate Westbrook and his crappy but fearless effort!! And this fact makes me more mad!!

I’m sure lots of people told him he shoots with the wrong hand, problem is Ben doesn’t think he needs coaching and won’t listen to anyone else

Excuse me, the consensus at the time was that the Nets won the trade because Harden was injured and Ben was a jumpshot away from being Lebron. Go watch SAS and Skip etc

When Doc said I don’t know I just knew it was over. I’ve never seen a Coach do that to a player before.

Lmao I thought someone was blackmailing dude to play bad 😂

The nba culture has went from “everyone chasing after the ring” to “some people are chasing after the ring, but more importantly players are chasing after the clout”

Love the content. I think he will soon be overseas. Then he will humble himself and start shooting. But it will be too late. Ben Simmons next contract $1,500/ 2 years. 😂

Can yall do the 2012-2013 Knicks on your forgotten NBA Teams?? It was the only year that the Knicks had any real success when he was in NY? Sincerely, A Knicks Fan

Bench Simmons & Kenny Golladay must be best friends

john wall,and igudaula both sat out and requested trades too

Philly bet on this guy and let butler walk. Hindsight is 2020 but man. That was rough.

Anyone who followed him in college would have seen this coming from a mile away. He and that LSU team were grossly overhyped that entire year, to the point where they got steamrolled by Texas A&M in the SEC tournament and didn't even make the NCAA tournament.

“Ben Simmons missed the season to get feelings” 😂

It's not that Ben Simmons didn't improve...it's that I don't think he ever made any effort to improve. It's one thing when a guy works on something over the summer and doesn't get better at it. At least the guy put in the effort and showed that he wants to get better. As a coach, I can work with that. What I can't work with is a guy whose summer program involved getting entangled in the Kardashian web. I can't work with someone that doesn't want to get better. I used to tell my troopers this all the time. You can be bad at something and want to improve and I'll work with you all day and after duty hours to help you get better. If you don't give a shit, let me know now so we can start with some motivation (which they can't do in the NBA since you can't smoke an NBA player until the doctor tells you to stop).

Taiwanese League mvp race boutta be crazy dwight howard vs Ben simmons

Trae Young's lock-down defense ruined his career.

The recency bias around Ben Simmons is so strong that it is basically impossible to really argue against it. That dude, whatever we're saying about him, is/was a 6'10 DPOY candidate that can lockdown 1 to 5, play solid help-defense and do some good stuff in transition. The only thing we learned is that he's definitely not a guard and IDK why it took 4 years. I'm still confident that he'll find a Draymond type of role in the league at some point (I'm not saying he'll be AS GOOD as Draymond obviously). You're making the point that he is not able to play defense like a traditionnal big but that's mainly because he played as a fucking PG since 2016 for some reasons lol, I'm pretty sure that with the excellent defensive abilities he have he could developp into a pretty good defensive minded PF in the future. Obviously he shouldnt have a max contract but I'll never blame the player in this type of situations. Anyways, I'm not blaming the Sixers, but there are a lot of draftees (and even players overall) who have had bad experiences there. It's suspicious.

All these wrestling photos makes me think of how bad they effed up roman vs cody

A lot of it has to be injuries. I know nobody wants to give him that pass considering the kind of person he is. But at this point I’m not buying the mental aspect of it, especially considering how many games he’s sat out. He doesn’t move like he used to even when he plays.

Say what you want about him, he still got that bag...

He's like Davis Webb was at QB, the Practice MVP.

O boy giannis not being afraid to shoot three throws really aged like milk on a hot sunmers day.

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Ben Simmons made his bag and checked out

Nihao Ben

Holy hell, good thing he didn't go the Knicks.

people were NOT saying Philly won the trade at first. Go back and watch the reactions, most analysts said the Nets won, Steven A even went as far as to say it could go down as the worst trade in Daryl Morey's career

It's ALL mental and that can be fixed. He's not had serious injuries or drug problems. It's ALL mental.

This video is aging pretty well 😂

if you would’ve told me 5 years ago that Ben Simmons, Kyrie Irving and KD were gonna be on the same team and it turned out to be one of the most disappointing teams in NBA history I would’ve thought you were insane

honestly if he was like dilon brooks with irraitionel confedince he´d be better then how he is now

Didn’t ad sit out for the pelicans too before he went to la

I mean it didn’t matter what he said he knew he was gone

This is the most hilarious video I have watched talking about this fraud.

Y’all never heard of nick Anderson?

Donovan Mitchell should have won Rookie Of The Year

yall get shit twisted lol.when your 100 isnt into something its very easy to give very little effort and dats exactly what ben does.doesnt really care about basketball but still has the skillset

Any other player is injured and it’s understandable. Ben has back surgery before the season and y’all questioning his injury. Very interesting

He passed it beacause the ball was slipping out of his hands 5:01

He got worse the elite defence gone attacking the rim gone

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getting paid to be useless? that's quite the life...

He has millions in the bank and doesn't care. That's why the CBA favors the players. It's guaranteed money and the owners pay for it dearly. Kyle Lowry from the Heat is another perfect example. ALWAYS injured and he's getting paid more than $30 mil a year doing effing nothing while being fat and overweight. That's why the CBA should be reviewed every 2 years.

might as well get a real kangaroo at this point

Ben Simmons is one of the greatest con-man of NBA, got his money and poof

I can’t tell if I feel bad for him or if it’s like bro just quit and stop stealing money

Simmons like like a baseball player that refuses to swing the bat. All the other skills aren’t of much use

Philly would have been in the finals if they chose Jimmy over Simmons.

He just doesn't love basketball. I don't know how much more obvious he could make it

didn’t anthony davis hold out?

I know I will get hate from this. I don’t claim to be some great nba analyst either, but I never thought Ben was good. He always played basketball awkwardly and like he only played a few years as a kid.

Simmons will be trying to get back on a team once his socialite money dries up.

Ben Simmons is an Off-Season Sniper, only shoots and drains shots in the off-season. doesn't translate to real games. I don't care about workout clips anymore

I wouldn't spend 20 bucks to watch ben simmons, wild he is getting paid 40m, at least he is fleecing billionaires I guess

I dont think he got over kardashian

lying to Ben Simmons and not holding him accountzble of his bullshit is what created this mindset in the first place, you guys need to stop with the Doc Rivers and everybody should have kept liying to him and would have made things better narrative

yea hes fs retired after that contract runs out lmaooo

Doc rivers lowest moment as well

Doesn't matter if he was a rookie or not donavan was always better than ben

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