I honestly have no idea if i have ever seen him play. Had no idea who he was. Thought it was parody or something? How does a guy like that demand anything?
If you've never heard of him or seen him play, then you must not have watched the Philly game from a couple years ago where he beat us with a last second 3 after Ant almost won it with a nearly-last-second 3. https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/pbp/201911020POR.html
He does have leverage in the sense that he's probably one of those players who could make more playing overseas than in the NBA.
Nurk, Keon, and Hart for Ben S. Then look at getting big guy as center as backup. It’s huge risk for a guy who hasn’t done much but upside for this team is we instantly become better defensively. This is type of risk I’d take
Just trying to match salaries. Hart shouldn’t be starter so that don’t count and Keon is bench player. Nurk isn’t living up to expectations so make fun of this but I think it is the type of risk you take with huge upside and low risk.
Any trade that we would make for Simmons would have to have draft picks coming to us with him... we just don't have contracts bad enough to match his salary and lack of productivity. That's regardless of the fact that I think he could return to all star form playing for Chauncey and with Dame.