Ben Simmons is good. That’s a statement that absolutely no one else has asserted already this NBA season and we are definitely the first to say it.
Sarcasm aside, the young Australian champ is having the kind of rookie season you’d only really ever dream about. The boy, the absolute lad is averaging a hair’s breadth beneath a double-double through the first 10 games of his career and posted two triple-doubles inside his first 9 career games. That’s something not even Michael Jordan or LeBron James were able to do.
Ben Simmons ain’t bad pic.twitter.com/XfyXZUELZg
— Brandon Lee Gowton (@BrandonGowton) November 4, 2017
First eight NBA games:
Ben Simmons: 18.5 PTS, 9.6 REB, 7.9 AST, 1.5 STL, 53% FG
LeBron James: 17.6 PTS, 6.8 REB, 6.6 AST, 1.6 STL, 44% FG
— Joe Giglio (@JoeGiglioSports) November 2, 2017
And, sure, we could sit here and talk about stats all day – he dropped a lazy 16-point, 13-rebound, 6-assist game today and he leads this year’s rookie class in almost every measurable stat column by a fucken mile – but why wade through that well trodden-in nonsense when we can watch him drop the hammer down on a coupla hapless Utah Jazz defenders?
Ben Simmons wasn’t playing 😳 pic.twitter.com/Ebn5AGfgSJ
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 8, 2017
YIKES.
And despite his lazy 16-13-6 game, which helped steer the Sixers to a 104-97 win over the Jazz, Simmons still called it “probably my worst game, individually, I’ve played since I’ve been in the league.”
.@BenSimmons25 with @NBCSPhilly‘s @MollySullivanTV following tonight’s W in Salt Lake City. https://t.co/ObxknMxtDj
— Philadelphia 76ers (@sixers) November 8, 2017
Good grief. If that’s what rock bottom is, you shudder to think what a good effort looks like.
That Ben Simmons. He ain’t half bad.
