How Ben Simmons went from Philly’s next big thing to an outcast

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The Australian guard was compared to LeBron James when the 76ers drafted him No 1 overall in 2016. But an ugly divorce between team and player awaits Ben Simmons wants out of Philadelphia, his only NBA team. Photograph: Matt Slocum/AP Philadelphia woke up on Monday to the grim news of another homicide, this one a fatal shooting of a nurse at a hospital. The shooting raised the number of homicides in the city to 418, the most by this point of the year since 1986. Philadelphia, in short, has much

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