Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but folks are talking about Ben Simmons during the NBA offseason, as videos and pictures from his shirtless workouts emerge. In other words, it’s August, baby. And Friday is September 1, the day Sean Marks said Simmons would “probably” be ready.
From our August 1st article on Simmons’ workouts in Miami:
The word around Ben Simmons has been uniformly positive the last few weeks. His general manager, head coach, his teammates, his agent and league sources (who sound a lot like his agent) have spoken as if one voice on the 27-year-old’s progress in his rehab down at the University of Miami.