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Averaging a triple-double through 2 playoff games, Ben Simmons is a mythological chimera

“The Chimera also Chimaera (Chimæra); Greek: Χu03afμαιρα, Chímaira ”she-goat”), according to Greek mythology,[1] was a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of more than one animal....

The term “chimera” has come to describe any mythical or fictional creature with parts taken from various animals, to describe anything composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling.