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Ben Simmons is Getting Closer
By Jim Adair
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Only a couple of weeks after he was shooting in the shadows at practice, Ben Simmons played some 5-vs-0 sets today and, according to Brett Brown, was doing cuts at 80%.
Brown said the steps are “small” but significant. I’d put money that he’s still weeks away. The Sixers, as expected, are handling Simmons’ recovery with the utmost care and secrecy. There’s no full speed, no defense, and he’s just running sets, but the clock is ticking. Hopefully it’ll tick quickly, because I don’t know how many Instagram pictures with a stopwatch emoji I can take.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.