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I don't look at it as picking sides. The Sixers with Simmons on the team is just both of them staying together for the sake of appearance. The Sixers organization made it perfectly clear that they did not want him at the end of the playoffs. Simmons made it perfectly clear that he did not want any part of the Sixers organization throughout the whole summer. The fans definitely don't want them to stay together. So why are they staying together?
Simmons is a great player. I don't think every great player in the league has to shoot three pointers so him not shooting them is not a huge deal for me. The other pieces of his game are great. Would it be nice if he shot threes? Yes. Will it limit the team he is on and his growth as a player if he doesn't? Absolutely but teams work around limitations all the time. If the Sixers don't want to work around these limitations and I don't think they should, Morey should send him away, get pieces that get fit what he wants to do now or in the future, and move the team forward.
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"The blind soldier fought for me in this war. The least I can do now is fight for him. I have eyes. He hasn’t. I have a voice on the radio, he hasn’t. I was born a white man. And until a colored man is a full citizen, like me, I haven’t the leisure to enjoy the freedom that colored man risked his life to maintain for me. I don’t own what I have until he owns an equal share of it. Until somebody beats me and blinds me, I am in his debt."- Orson Welles August 11, 1946
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