Ben Simmons Is Ineligible For John Wooden Award

what good is 100$ million shoe deal if your too stupid to know when someone will con you out of all of it.

I hate Ben Simmons as a player. He is just lazy and over hyped and this article proved that. However, I don't know what I would do if I was put in his position. This is an 18 year old kid who has already been guaranteed a $100 million contract by one of the biggest shoe brands in the world. It has to be tough for him.

nice job Ben - would never pick u as a GM knowing that work effort

Lazy is a charcter trait and will manifest itself in everything he does. Simmons is one of the most overrated players zi have ever seen. His laziness off the court is visible to many of us now just as we have been saying all along. This simply is not a surprise because if Simmons is lazy on the court where supposedly it does matter why wouldn't he be lazy in other aspects of his life such as academicly.

Prove you wrong? Jones sucks as a coach. Simmons is lazy as crap, must have stopped going to class after Christmas. It really does not matter to him, he doesn't need college to play in the NBA and sign shoe deals. He will need it one day though. Life is tough enough. it's much tougher when you are stupid. Wasting a free opportunity to learn is stupid, period.

I love the downvotes and snide comments. Ben does deserve some blame, but this falls squarely on the coaching staff. How can any of you argue in favor of Coach JJ when he has squandered so much talent? Maybe it is a symptom of what is wrong with college basketball in general, but it speaks volumes to me that other programs seem to keep their one and dones clean for a year and this clown can't even do that. Prove me wrong.

I don't think he would've won it anyways. Buddy Hield has it locked up right now.

Scores a zero on desire and effort. What a surprise.

Kentucky has won nattys with one and done kids. Bottom line is this coaching staff has failed. I don't like the rule either, but let's not pretend the rule is the reason this year has been such a failure, and Simmons isn't national player of the year.

Guy it's ok, Obama said he didn't have to worry about it on national tv, who the hell goes to class when the POTUS gives you a shout out ?

Can't make a 2.0 with free tutoring? That's sad....

I'm fine with one and done as it's the current rule, it will change. What a sad reflection on Ben, on LSU, and for other kids busting it to get their degree via scholarship. Jones too has to take accountability.

$100m shoe deal. Don't care.

You can put this on the coach,the coach knows what his player is doing.he should've sat for five or six games instead of four minutes in the first quarter. No matter if you're the number one pick in the draft or not you're still a student

How hard is it, as an athlete, to maintain grades and remain eligible? This is pathetic.

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The Brad Wing of Basketball

Embarrassing Ben.

"can't blame this on the kid." Wut?

Jonny Jones is a joke of a coach, can't blame this on the kid.