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Sixers star Ben Simmons spent nearly a week with '60 Minutes' for upcoming interview

If it were up to his mother, Ben Simmons would be playing Australian football for the Burleigh Bombers.

It is one of the interesting revelations to come out of Simmons’ upcoming interview on 60 Minutes Australia, an offshoot of the popular American news magazine on CBS that’s been a TV staple down under for nearly 40 years. The interview will air on Sunday night in Australia (Sunday morning Philadelphia time), and the Nine Network will post it in its entirety on its YouTube page following the debut.

Here’s a quick preview of the interview:

The interview was done by Tom Steinfort, who just joined 60 Minutes Australia in January after years as a morning show host and European corespondent for various Nine Network shows.