Sixers podcast: Ben Simmons & Blazers trade analysis

On this episode of The Sixer Sense Podcast, we welcome Stevie Cozens of Rip City Project, FanSided’s Portland Trail Blazers site. He gives plenty of unique perspective on how and why the Blazers would be interested in a Ben Simmons trade.

Lucas Johnson and Christopher Kline starts things off with the controversial Fox 29 report, meant as a joke, that showed a dumpster floating down a flooded river symbolizing Ben Simmons exiting Philadelphia. Was it a classless move, or all in fun, to bring humor to a tense situation for upset Sixers’ fans?

The next topic the trio discusses revolves around the money that Ben Simmons would sacrifice if he sat out any part of training camp or the regular season. The salary he would forfeit is astounding, and we go over the likeliness that he would sit and how much power Klutch Sports has in this player versus team standoff.

The podcast devotes the remainder of the episode to the logistics and approach of the Trail Blazers when it comes to a Ben Simmons trade.

Stevie Cozens offers the podcast his knowledge of the Blazers to describe the fit of Ben Simmons alongside Damian Lillard should CJ McCollum get traded to Philly. We also discuss what trade pieces would be involved to get Simmons to Portland to be paired with Lillard.

The next topic targets the fit of Damian Lillard with the 76ers’ All-Star center, Joel Embiid. We ask how long Portland has to prove to Lillard that they can compete at the highest level and other motivations that the Blazers may have to pull the trigger for a trade.

The social media question of the week asked Sixers fans which situation made them more upset. Was it the Markelle Fultz dilemma, Andrew Bynum disaster, or Ben Simmons’ current quagmire. We chime in on which situations frustrated us the most.

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