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Ben Simmons' Master Plan

Originally Published: June 22, 2016
By Taffy Brodesser-Akner | ESPN The Magazine

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's June 27 Muhammad Ali issue. Subscribe today.

This is boring," says the presumed No. 1 pick of the NBA draft, who spent three days in late May doing presumed No. 1 draft pick activities -- commercial shoots, photo shoots, interviews. Ben Simmons is learning that the more of a star you are in basketball, the less basketball it seems you get to play. He was telling this to his sister Emily as the clock struck two hours since he began waiting ...

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