After not playing the last nine minutes of the fourth against the Sixers on Wednesday night, Ben Simmons left Thursday’s game against the Pistons with “knee soreness.” Jacque Vaughn didn’t seem to buy it:

This was the play that sent Ben Simmons to the locker room and wouldn’t see him return:

I didn’t really see an eye roll from Vaughn there, but you could tell he was frustrated with Ben when answering the next question about playing back-to-backs.

This is from Erik Slater at Clutch Points:

Yeeeesh.


What do you do with this guy? He’s clearing $35 million this year and set to make $37 and $40 million in the next two. Who is going to want to pay this guy $40 million a year with an offensive game like this:

Could you even get a first rounder for Ben Simmons right now? Probably not.