Ben Simmons he said the Sixers didn’t give him the help he asked for or needed as he struggled with mental health issues in his time with the organization.
Simmons, who was featured on JJ Redick’s “Old Man and the Three” podcast, said certain teammates and coaches didn’t give him the support he was looking for, which played into the ugly ending with the organization that drafted him. Redick and Simmons were teammates on the Sixers. The 6-foot-10 point guard sat out all of last season while dealing with mental health issues and was traded to networks in a highly successful exchange for james harden at the February trade deadline.
“I was in such a bad place where I was like, fuck, I’m trying to get here and you guys are, like, throwing all this other stuff at me where it’s not helping. And that’s all I wanted was help. simmons said.
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