 What's the worry, y'all? Welcome back to NBA every day, until it's not. I'm gonna give you a little YouTube secret. Upload No Sundays is never a good idea. So though I say every day, I had to take Sundays off just for the algorithm purposes. I wanna talk about the Philadelphia 76ers, man, because I think what's going on over there is a bit weird, a bit interesting. I'm obviously one of the better teams in Easter Conference. I've been seeing a lot of people do power rankings or prediction videos now that free agency is all but over. The hierarchy usually goes this, there's the Brooklyn Nets all the way up there because as long as the Brooklyn Nets are healthy, they're gonna win a championship. Can we agree on that? Maybe, I mean, as long as they're healthy, you know what I'm saying? Last year, they were this close to beating the team to actually won the championship with James Harden being on one leg and Harry Irving being out. So I would say they're the heavy favorite to win the conference. Then you have the Bucks, obviously still great because they just came off a championship in their core senior attack. They lost PJ and they lost Brent Forrest, but that's cool. Then you got the Miami Heat who had a disappointing post-season last year and re-upped with bringing to Cal, Laurie P.Tucker and just got overall better. And then you got Philly. And Philly was the best team in the regular season and a lot of people's picked to go all the way and then they got upset by the Atlanta Hawks and like in a super dramatic fashion. The Hawks, a lot of people didn't even predict that they were gonna make it out of that first round then they end up beating the one seed. Losing is not good, but there's no shame in losing. It's the way things happen. And I don't wanna solely put it on Ben Simmons because it's a team collective thing to lose a series. But Ben Simmons was a big part of it. He's under the magnifying glass right now, especially after the last post-season where he's two inches away from dunking the ball but passes it and the person that he passed through gets fouled. I think it's Matisse Stibble. Matisse Stibble misses a free throw. He makes the second one and like after post-game thing Jolin B was like, there was one particular play where things went downhill and he was referring to the Ben Simmons play. The team's not guarding him. Him going out there and not doing anything in the whole fourth quarter just being an offensive liability. And as that game is going on, I think I even tweeted like we might be seeing the last game of Ben Simmons in the 76er jersey. It just felt like the writing was on the wall. So as you add Joel and B's comments, you have Doc Rivers comments where somebody asked him, can Ben Simmons be a point guard on the championship team? Doc Rivers was like, shit, I don't know, bro. Like everything was pointing to a Ben Simmons trade happening. So now you got all the rumors. Ooh, can Bradley Beal be on the horizon? Can Damian Lillard be on the horizon? And what we have found out is there more is try to finesse, basically. If we gonna trade Ben Simmons away, we want a young player. We want five picks. We want a little bit of this. We want a little bit of that. And no team has given up that type of package for a player who's at an all-time low when it comes to his trade stock. So Ben Simmons decided to try to take care of himself which I understand. He decided not to go to Tokyo to represent Team Australia. And I think Team Australia is still meddled. So shout out to them, the first medal of all time. And when it comes to basketball at least, he decided that this off-season, I'm gonna be in the gym. So he's in the gym with Raja Rondo. And you know, Rondo turned himself into a okay three-point shooter especially doing that championship run with the Lakers. And you can see Ben Simmons, this off-season putting up jump shots and hitting them. Uh-oh, he's putting in a lot of work. Shout out to TD, by the way. And I've been a Ben Simmons supporter for a very long time. And when I used to be a part of the NBA network, this is why networks are terrible. I would recommend all my upcoming YouTubers, if you can disconnect from a network and become completely independent, I recommend it. But one of the reasons why I signed to my network, this was Ben Simmons' rookie year. The NBA network for YouTubers is because they can give me discounts or gift cards for the NBA store. And the very first thing I bought was a Ben Simmons shirt. And I might still have it. I probably donated it to Goodwill because, you know. So Dere Mor is asking for Arm and Leg for Ben Simmons and he's not getting that at the moment. And they say, listen, we're okay with bringing back our guys. We were just the one seed and it was a super dramatic loss in the second round. But we think we can do the same thing. But this man, Ben Simmons, has reportedly cut off communications with the 76ers and is ignoring Joe Wells' calls. Um, not very good. So yeah, you'd be willing to bring him back. But is he willing to come back? I know he will eventually report because it's part of his contract. But it feels like this relationship has run his course. It's at the point of no return. And they're trying to tell us that we're okay with trying to make it happen. And it just, it would blow my mind if Ben Simmons is there for game number one of this regular season. But it probably will happen because like I said, Dere Mor wants a ton to make this happen. So Ben Simmons is in the lab working out heavily. And then this one just got put out there today. How many point guards got this in the bag at Ben Simmons 25? Eyes emoji, briefcase emoji, details. Making libraries playing off the screens high crossover into a dunk finish, hashtag just hoops. And this is Chris Johnson, who's one of the better trainers in the entire league. And this looks amazing, right? But this is like Ben Simmons kind of things. We know Ben Simmons is good at reading defenses. We know Ben Simmons can dunk the ball. But it's kind of funny they're practicing this type of stuff because teams aren't playing. Oh, okay, let's do this one more time. One more time, one more time through. No defender is playing Ben Simmons going over on screens. It doesn't happen. Teams are not playing Ben Simmons high because he's not a threat to shoot the jump shot. And that's one of the reasons why Joel and Bid and Ben Simmons don't run pick a roll a lot is because he's not that much of a threat. You go wonder, yes, he's a steamroller when he's downhill, but it just doesn't work that way. And we've been here before. Ben Simmons becoming a lead-through shooter. League not ready. This is from House of Highlights and this is last season. He did this last season. This is last offseason, ladies and gentlemen. Step back threes. We've been here before where we've seen the offseason stuff of Ben Simmons attempting threes and attempting to shoot the ball. And he just doesn't do any game. And I'm not necessarily team. Ben Simmons gotta be a good three-point shooter. I'm team. Ben Simmons has to be a threat. Simple. Whether that is shooting the ball, whether that is him in the dunk spot, I don't know what it is. Ben Simmons has to be a threat because as of last season in this postseason, he was an all defensive player, second to defensive player of the year. He was an all-star player, but in the crunch time of playoff games, he was a liability on the offensive side of the ball. And because of that, we don't know what's happening with Ben Simmons next. We don't know what teams are actually interested other than the Sacramento Kings because the Toronto Raptors said they not trade at Pascal Siakam. So we don't know. When Ben Simmons is aggressive on the offensive side of the ball, it is electric to watch, especially when you think about the defensive side of the ball where he is second in the league and defensive player of the year. He is still a very, very good NBA player. Do not get me wrong. But in order for him to be on the team to eventually win it all, he has to evolve his game to the next level. And the last couple of years, he's slowly done a little bit of things, but not the leap that we really want him to take. So what's next for Ben Simmons? Your guess is as good as mine. What's next for the 76ers? Your guess is as good as mine. So you let me know.