Would you want Ben Simmons on the Celtics?

[Jimbodandy]

Doc, Embiid and Simmons are all babies and have proven it time and time again.

On this we should all agree.

 

[Cesar Crespo]

My answer is only yes if he gets vaccinated though.

 

[chrisfont9]

Ben Simmons wasn't a malcontent until his coach and the franchise player threw him under the bus and basically demanded he be traded.

If you can acquire him for any reasonable non-Jays price, you do it. That's an incredibly easy core to slot different players in on the defensive side. On the offensive side, you just need to not base things around a high-volume post player and you can make it work.

You couldn't do this all regular season, but Simmons-at-center death lineups would be elite on both ends, against all but a couple matchups.

Is there any significant way in which Ben Simmons is worse than Draymond Green, aside from the couple unguarded 3s Draymond takes per game that teams are happy to give him? I'd trade for 4/$147M of young better Draymond in a heartbeat, provided that my team wasn't built around a posting center.

Oh, I don't know, I heard a podcast last year discussing how scouts have said that he refuses to improve his game and doesn't have the drive you want in a young player -- comparing him, inevitably, to Jaylen Brown who is oriented to getting better. I don't want that guy around my team. Maybe for a small-dollar, short-time deal, but that is even less realistic than Philly trading him to the Celtics.

 

[bakahump]

One thing is for sure....whenever the Celts played Philly, Ben would be up for the game.