Ben Simmons.

It's a great talk about, and he's agreed to a max extension with the Sixers.

The deal's reportedly for five years, $170 million.

A lot of baby rattle.

That is a lot of money when you consider how much money Philadelphia has locked up with the four players on his roster.

Take a look to buy us.

Harris, Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid, Al Horford All have contracts more than 100 million.

So this is their team for the next 4 to 5 years.

I mean, unless anyone asked for a trade for never, never, never happens, do the Sixers have a championship roster going forward to me?

Um, I wouldn't put him as a favorite, but that's certainly formidable grouping right there.

Especially now.

The big thing is, who are the other nine toe 11 people on the roster?

Because you look at that right there in the first thing that jumps out is not a whole lot of spacing, right?

Tobias Harris is a shooter, but and beat, although we call him a space a stretch big, not a great three point shooter.

Simmons very well publicized.

Al Horford is a good shooter, but again, not the volume.

Find, by the way.

I want clarify.

I'm fine with Oil as a three point shooter for Big Man.

He's just knocking.

I just I don't think even within the context of the great shooting bigs in this league, he's not in the cat categories sub 30% in the low thirties.

That that's not good enough.

We're talking about people 36 37 38% or higher.

He's not that Al Horford is but on a limited number of attendees, more of those YouTube.

So you look like you're sitting.

Is that what you call that?

A couple years ago, the Bucks had to make a decision on ya Satanic Temple.

They gave $100 million even though he'd never been an All Star, said, This guy's gonna get better.

And then the Timberwolves had a decision on you and your wig.

Since we give $100 million Yes, we're gonna get $100 million.

You think he's gonna get that one of them like this and became the M V P.

Which one brand?

I believe it was Yang.

The other one has flatlined that has generally not gotten better.

This contract is a bet that Ben Simmons is going to become a M V P candidate type of player.

And if he becomes that of a player, which means he's gonna be a more dominant perimeter player, have more dynamic score, then they have a championship roster.

If he does, if he plateaus, they got a problem.

What I think as a problem, as constituted.

But I think he's gonna play up to that value.

Unlike Wiggins, I think even if he if he just stays at what he is right now, that's still a productive player on a on a decent contract.

I would bet on Benson.

Benson has been an All Star.

Yanis hasn't been an All Star when he got his, but if I was making a futures bet on Ben Simmons, I would bet I'm trying the Wiggins you candidate, cause that's just a hard bed to make.

But yeah, Wiggins had so much unfulfilled potential when he got that deal.

Everyone's kind of looking at it like this one.

Simmons, on some level, has fulfilled someone up.

Don't you remember ownership at that point was like we give.

We're giving Andrew Wiggins this contract because we really expect him now you're you'll get better now and oh yeah, you promise didn't work so well.

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