Who would know better about whether Ben Simmons can fit in with Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant than the guy who coached both Simmons and Irving in high school, Simmons at Monteverde Academy in Florida, Irving at St. Patrick’s in New Jersey.
And Kevin Boyle, still at Monteverde, tells Adam Zagoria of NJ.com that he believes it will work out whenever it happens mainly because of something not often mentioned in bios of the 25-year-old: his BBIQ, his basketball intelligence quotient.
“You get a guy that could slow Jayson Tatum down, you get a guy that could do a good job there, make it more difficult for him.