My favorite play in sports is the great basketball pass, so you can imagine what I was thinking Monday night when, during the second quarter of his Sixers debut, Ben Simmons showed me, in quick succession, an old man pass for a three, a 40-foot bounce pass in traffic to a layup, and a touch pass for an uncontested dunk.
Passing is a lost art at too many levels of the sport, but the Spurs and the Warriors have once again showed its value at the game’s highest level. I knew Simmons was a great passer, but watching it even in a summer-league setting was a joy.