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Stephen A. Smith Rages at Ben Simmons for Saying He Wants to Join the Heat

“Do you know what he said, ladies and gentlemen? ‘I wouldn’t mind going to Miami.’ Really? That’s what we doing?” Smith said while ripping Simmons over comments about potentially joining the Heat. Smith added that Erik Spoelstra and Pat Riley would demand he earn his money, calling Simmons “a basketball atrocity” and “the biggest waste of talent” in professional sports.

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