Ramona Shelburne of ESPN just released an article with some pretty steep claims. Here are some of the important parts:
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Simmons was being held out of the team’s shootaround before game 7, he told them, due to a possible exposure to a team masseuse, who’d returned an inconclusive COVID-19 test.
Several players were questioned about whether they’d seen her that morning, but only Simmons said that he had.
“He answered the question honestly, without thinking of the implications,” says one source close to Simmons.
But according to multiple sources, many within the team questioned whether Simmons had actually seen the masseuse — or was just trying to get out of playing as he battled the basketball version of the yips.
Later in the day, the staffer and Simmons’ test results came back negative, according to sources, and he was cleared to play in the game. But he wasn’t in a good place, and neither were the Sixers.
“He was thrown,” the source says.
This little bitch was trying to sit out game 7 so he didn't have to play? No wonder why he was so fucking afraid, guy was checked out.
This post was edited by Sixers on Oct 15 2021 11:09am