The Sixers have found themselves surrounded by a spiderweb of their own mistakes over the past few weeks, with GM Bryan Colangelo surrendering a lot of the goodwill earned by the team’s hot stretch in January. Today’s latest news might explain why Ben Simmons hasn’t seemed all that close to making his debut.
According to the Inquirer’s Keith Pompey, Simmons’ foot may not have been fully healed when he went for his foot scan in late January:
Sources said that a foot scan on Jan. 23 showed that his foot was not fully healed.