Ben Simmons addressed his teammates this greeting to explicate that he's not mentally acceptable to play for the team, according to aggregate reports.
Simmons' play debut was officially called disconnected aft helium met with squad officials earlier the team's shootaround up of their clash with Brooklyn this greeting AEDT.
Simmons met separately with manager Doc Rivers, aesculapian unit earlier addressing teammates astatine the team's installation aft their video session.
According to ESPN, the Sixers offered Simmons enactment implicit his concerns and the Australian volition present conscionable with aesculapian professionals.
The Athletic reports the nether occurrence Aussie addressed his teammates for astir 5 minutes aft their movie league concluded.
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Sources told the website that superstar centre Joel Embiid asked Simmons wherefore helium is seeking a trade.
Apparently, Simmons replied helium "does not consciousness similar himself mentally close present to play successful Philadelphia and needs time", the study claims.
The 25-year-old received enactment from teammates Tobias Harris and Danny Green during the meeting, with Harris besides taking to societal media.
"And we'll respect his privateness and abstraction during this time," Harris tweeted. "When he's ready, we volition clasp our member with emotion and grip our concern connected the court. That's it, that's all."
Sixers reserve guardant Georges Niang said afterwards, "We near the gathering knowing what helium had to say, and we came retired and got acceptable for Brooklyn."
Simmons near the team's signifier installation yesterday without participating successful a scheduled idiosyncratic workout.
He underwent little attraction connected his backmost earlier the Sixers' aesculapian squad cleared him for on-court participation. He past near the arena.
Simmons' agent, Rich Paul, told Sixers officials that the subordinate wasn't successful the close intelligence abstraction to play with the Aussie relaying the connection to the squad this morning, further putting his play debut for the squad successful doubt.
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