{"id":97750,"date":"2022-10-15T08:29:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T08:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ben-simmons-on-joel-embiid-relationship-we-never-really-spoke\/"},"modified":"2022-10-15T08:29:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T08:29:57","slug":"ben-simmons-on-joel-embiid-relationship-we-never-really-spoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ben-simmons-on-joel-embiid-relationship-we-never-really-spoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Simmons on Joel Embiid Relationship: &#8216;We Never Really Spoke&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>After a tumultuous end to his <span>76ers<\/span> career, <span>Ben Simmons<\/span> is preparing for a comeback season with the Nets.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons was part of the James Harden trade package that sent a disgruntled Harden out of Brooklyn to Philadelphia and a disgruntled Simmons from the Sixers to the Nets.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with ESPN, Simmons discussed his lack of a relationship with Sixers star big man Joel Embiid.  When asked about his relationship with Embiid and whether or not the two had spoken since the trade that sent Simmons to Brooklyn, the new Nets star was blunt in his assessment of the relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t talk to Jo.  We never really spoke,\u201d Simmons said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<p>As it turns out, Simmons and Embiid don&#8217;t have much of a friendship at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t think there was really a relationship there.  Like in terms of a friendship?  You can try as hard as you want to try to be close to somebody, be their friend, whatever it is, but everyone is different as people, so for me, it&#8217;s never personal.  I don&#8217;t have any anger or hate towards him.  He is who he is and I am who I am.  And we&#8217;ve got our personal lives.  And work is basketball, so in that moment, my goal is to win and I got to win with Jo.  He&#8217;s a great player, we just didn&#8217;t get it done,\u201d Simmons added.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<p>Perhaps the divorce between the star players was what was best for all involved after all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More NBA Coverages:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>For more Philadelphia 76ers coverage, go to <\/em><em>All 76ers.<\/em><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/template\" id=\"facebookPixel1103097776498609\">!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()\n{n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}\n;if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n(function(){\n    fbq('init', '1103097776498609');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    var contentId = 'ci02adc5b5100026d0';\n    if (contentId !== '') {\n        fbq('track', 'ViewContent', {content_ids: [contentId], content_type: 'product'});\n    }\n})();<\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a tumultuous end to his 76ers career, Ben Simmons is preparing for a comeback season with the Nets. Simmons was part of the James Harden trade package that sent a disgruntled Harden out of Brooklyn to Philadelphia and a disgruntled Simmons from the Sixers to the Nets. In an interview with ESPN, Simmons discussed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ben-simmons-on-joel-embiid-relationship-we-never-really-spoke\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ben Simmons on Joel Embiid Relationship: &#8216;We Never Really Spoke&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[1100,68,2584],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":86495,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ben-simmons-makes-brooklyn-nets-debut\/","url_meta":{"origin":97750,"position":0},"title":"Ben Simmons makes Brooklyn Nets debut","date":"October 4, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"NEW YORK -- Brooklyn Nets guard Ben Simmons made his long-awaited debut with his new team on Monday after almost a year and a half away from the game.After pushing for a trade out of Philadelphia while citing mental health concerns and then dealing with offseason back surgery, Simmons said\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.si.com\/.image\/t_share\/MTc5NDg3NzIzNDg3MjQxNTQ5\/ben-simmons-joel-embiid-covid.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}