SPANISH HARLEM – . My New York Knicks offered Ben Simmons the NBA veteran minimum and with 10 years of service, which would fall just under 3 million dollars. Some in the media are saying he wants more money but what does it tell when your agent basically fires you. I am sure if there was the potential to get you more, your agent would do everything in their power to get you that money.
The problem here is, does Simmons want to play basketball or does he want to get the most money possible before leaving the sport? I assume that most people would guess the latter. It’s fair to say that he doesn’t love the sport, but he once had the talent to play it. Now he is a broken-down version of his former self. Some may say he is the same version of what he was, yet he never reached the potential people had for him. I might say he actually regressed though he was never greatly skilled at anything unless you want to say play better on the defensive side of the ball. That all changed with injuries, which included what we would call a “mental breakdown”.
His greatest attribute was his height, given that he was the tallest point guard in the NBA during his time in the league. He had the vision to play the point but not much else, he was scared to get to the rim because he didn’t want to get fouled and never developed a jump shot whatsoever.
Let’s me be honest here, all he did was collect checks for most of his time in the NBA and that’s fine when you have teams that are willing to pay you. All he had were the Knicks and while the front office was intrigued with his skill set (which I can’t explain), we can all say that the Knicks likely dodged a bullet here.
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