re: Ben Simmons couldn’t meet LeBron hype — now he’s out $40M

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Same thing happened with Andrew Wiggins. Jahlil Okafor. Its the college game thats killing the hype, not LSU.

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Even if that is true, don't think for a second that other coaches aren't going to tell superstar players to avoid LSU and Jones at all costs because all he did was devalue Simmons' potential worth and marketability at the next level.

While it isn't Jones' fault that NBA-ready HS players have to go to college for one season, at least Kansas and Duke can say to those guys "if you have to go to college for one year, at least come to a place where you will be in the college basketball spotlight. Don't go to somewhere like LSU and play for Jones where the ONLY sure thing that will happen is that you will see your overall stock decrease."

I know all the Jones fan-boys love to tell the other 98% of LSU basketball fans they are wrong about Jones, but the fact remains that he had his one big shot to truly change the direction of the program this past season and he completely crashed and burned. It's is going to be extremely hard to recover from that negative stigma.

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Same thing happened with Andrew Wiggins. Jahlil Okafor. Its the college game thats killing the hype, not LSU.

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DING DING DING

Simmons put up great numbers this season, and even though many were left with a stale taste in their mouth, it's all but proven that 1 and done players typically do themselves a disservice in that 1 year.