Reports are the Sixers favor Simmons. I can't wait to hear the reports they favor Ingram, then the reports of them trading down, and reports of them trading it for an established player.
My gut says they draft Simmons. We aren't contending this year, we have time to figure out what we have and trade/sign players for positions of need (Guards).
Another factor, Brett Brown has known Ben Simmons since he was a baby. He coached his dad at Melbourne for 5 years and knows the junior coaches who coached up Ben. If anyone in this league can connect with Ben and help him acclimate to the NBA, it might be Brett Brown. I also suspect it may be why we haven't seen Brown canned yet, why fire him and then draft Simmons.
I haven't seen anything out there specifically say Simmons didn't want Philly and Brett Brown. We have about 5 weeks to see what the Simmons camp does (if anything). Time will tell.
Now fantasy land - I'm gonna get greedy and say call the Lakers and try to pry #2 from them. Include some combo of Okafor, #24, #26, next years Laker pick, if you want. I'd happily take Ingram from them too.
Not sure I'd move Okafor for Celtics #3 though.