NBA prima Ben Simmons has revealed helium has nary narration with erstwhile Philadelphia 76ers teammate Joel Embiid.
Simmons near the Sixers earlier this twelvemonth successful a immense commercialized woody with the Nets for All-Star defender James Harden, pursuing a lengthy play of clip wherever the Aussie sat retired of games.
While they weren't precisely adjacent successful their years together, Simmons has revealed they haven't spoken astatine each since his trade, contempt some trading barbs successful the media.
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"I don't speech to Jo. We ne'er truly spoke," Simmons told ESPN.
"I don't deliberation determination was truly a narration there. Like successful presumption of a friendship? You tin effort arsenic hard arsenic you privation to effort to beryllium adjacent to somebody, beryllium their friend, immoderate it is, but everyone is antithetic arsenic people, truthful for me, it's ne'er personal.
"I don't person immoderate choler oregon hatred towards him. He is who helium is and I americium who I am. And we've got our idiosyncratic lives. And enactment is basketball, truthful successful that moment, my extremity is to triumph and I got to triumph with Jo.
"He's a large player, we conscionable didn't get it done."
Embiid was among respective critics of Simmons during his conflict with his intelligence health. Simmons said not getting that enactment took its toll.
"It got to a constituent wherever aft that (Hawks) series, it's similar from the radical you're expected to person that enactment from oregon that comfortableness from, I wasn't getting that either truthful it was a toll connected me," helium said.
"Then mentally, it killed me. I was like, f--k, nary vigor for thing ... I was successful a acheronian place."
The NBA pre-season is underway. The 25-year-old Simmons was mostly fantabulous defending against Milwaukee's prima antheral Giannis Antetokounmpo successful the Nets 107-97 win. Antetokounmpo was conscionable 4-from-16 successful shooting attempts erstwhile defended by Simmons.
He besides showed flashes of what he's susceptible of astatine the different extremity - astir notably with a behind-the-back dribble followed by a lob walk to Cam Thomas.
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