After Mondayâs victory against the Bulls, Doc Rivers was asked if Ben Simmons should get a video tribute on Thursday:
Letâs get this out of the way. He will. He doesnât deserve it, but Iâm sure there are some meetings being held in Camden today about Tyrese Maxey being a Klutch client and how will it affect relationships with other Klutch clients in the future if there is no tribute. Again itâs not right. Do we think the United States wouldâve given a video tribute to Benedict Arnold if he came back? Hell no. But it is business. Iâd hate to be the video coordinator that has to put this package together. It has to feel like treason. Not to mention youâre going to put all this work into it and nobody in the entire arena will hear it nor care. It doesnât matter if itâs five minutes long. Weâve already shown the world the lung capacity we have for a good boo:
If youâre looking for a good example of what a video tribute will be like, John Tavares coming back to Nassau as a Maple Leaf is probably the best one. Except multiply that by a million:
Weâre going to make the Dirty 30 look like functioning members of society:
P.S. â How big do you think âSixers Fans Boo Simmonsâ is written on the white board of the Get Up office for Fridayâs show? Itâs probably in bubble letters or some shit. Iâd love to get a camera on the producer who gets to text Greeny the clip of Sixers fans booing Ben. Smiling ear to ear. We just programmed 45 minutes of your two-hour show in one 30-second clip.
P.P.S â The oddsmakers at Crossing Broad are setting the total at 3.5 âFuck Ben Simmonsâ chants. Calvin Ridley has gotten down on the over. He has it in a three-leg parlay with over Embiid and Maxey points too.