Speaker 1: Give me up, shet me up. She killed me up,
Speaker 1: She killed me up.
Speaker 2: It's skipping. Spotify is skipping. God damn it, Spotify. We're
Speaker 2: gonna cut that song short.
Speaker 3: You know what. I can't handle this.
Speaker 2: We talked a little bit about Ben Simmons earlier, and
Speaker 2: I would be remiss not to mention the latest news,
Speaker 2: which is kind of the universe is undefeated.
Speaker 3: It's amazing.
Speaker 2: According to none other than stephen A. Smith, Ben Simmons
Speaker 2: is ready and raring to go for the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: two twenty twenty three season. On his return after a month,
Speaker 2: stephen A said this.
Speaker 3: On first take.
Speaker 2: By the way, a little newsflash here ran to Ben
Speaker 2: Simmons on vacation pause.
Speaker 3: How where why? I need to know more about this? Anyway,
Speaker 3: we go on.
Speaker 2: He and I had a nice conversation. I support the brother,
Speaker 2: had a problem with him not playing.
Speaker 3: That's the past. He's ready to go. He swears he's
Speaker 3: ready to go. Stephen A. Smith, on one hand.
Speaker 2: Giveth and on the other hand he taketh away. That's
Speaker 2: what he does. I support the brother, had a problem
Speaker 2: with him not playing. He says he's ready to go.
Speaker 2: That's how he finesses us. First of all, I thought
Speaker 2: steven A.
Speaker 3: Smith took a month off for shoulder surgery.
Speaker 2: That's this is like a Tom Brady situation where we're
Speaker 2: not quite sure why he left the building, how long
Speaker 2: he's going to be gone for. Because the narrative around
Speaker 2: stephen A. Smith, I thought he Now he's promoting a
Speaker 2: memoir too. You've been busy, stephen A. You're running into
Speaker 2: Ben Simmons. You're writing books, you're halving shoulder surgeries, and
Speaker 2: you're enjoying your time off.
Speaker 3: You show up to the set in a periwinkle suit.
Speaker 3: What the fuck is going on? Anyway? Apparently Ben is
Speaker 3: ready to go. What that means we will see.
Speaker 2: He also made headlines Ben Simmons by coming to terms
Speaker 2: in his lawsuit against the Sixers over findes he incurred
Speaker 2: why sitting out. While sitting out the past season, Philly
Speaker 2: fined him almost four hundred thousand dollars per game beginning
Speaker 2: November fifteenth, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: That is so much money. The Sixers have.
Speaker 2: Maintained that Ben breached his contract, while Ben's camp argued
Speaker 2: that his mental health was the reason that he could
Speaker 2: not participate in team activities.
Speaker 3: Did he just have back.
Speaker 2: Surgery again for like the third time with the back
Speaker 2: and the brain.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Apparently all the health issues are behind. I sincerely hope
Speaker 2: we get to see Ben Simmons play basketball. I sincerely
Speaker 2: hope that he's figured out what hand he shoots with.
Speaker 2: I sincerely hope he figures out he's not a point
Speaker 2: guard and starts to figure out what his real role
Speaker 2: is on a team, because the league is so much
Speaker 2: better when we have actual film, current Ben Simmons game
Speaker 2: film to make fun of, honestly, at least for me.
Speaker 3: At least for me