After just barely missing the cut last season, Joel Embiid was announced as an All-Star Starter last night. It’s well deserved. But when Philly fans have one good thing happen, they get greedy, which leads to the next logical question: What are Ben Simmons’ chances of making the team as a reserve?
At first glance they don’t look great. None of the four NBA on TNT hosts listed Simmons as on of their seven reserves:
Ben Simmons finished 3rd in the fan vote but 6th in both player and media voting (a lot of people were tied for 6th in the media vote with zero votes).