{"id":201915,"date":"2021-03-14T19:26:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ben-simmons-responds-to-justin-kutchers-overrated-dig\/"},"modified":"2021-03-14T19:26:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:26:14","slug":"ben-simmons-responds-to-justin-kutchers-overrated-dig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ben-simmons-responds-to-justin-kutchers-overrated-dig\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ben Simmons responds to Justin Kutcher’s ‘overrated’ dig"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Ben Simmons responds to Justin Kutcher’s ‘overrated’ dig<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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If you troll Ben Simmons, he\u2019ll troll you right back.<\/p>\n

After Wizards play-by-play announcer Justin Kutcher took shots at the 76ers All-Star during Philadelphia\u2019s 127-101 win over the Wizards Friday, Simmons clapp<\/a>ed back by posting a rather amusing photo of Kutcher on his Instagram story.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve said it before and I know I\u2019ll take flak for it. \u2026 I think Ben Simmons is one of if not the most overrated players in the NBA,\u201d Kutcher said <\/a>during the third quarter of NBC Sports Washington\u2019s Wizards-76ers broadcast Friday. \u201cHe\u2019s gotten so much love and attention that people aren\u2019t paying attention to what Tobias Harris is actually doing on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simmons, who is widely considered a front-runner for Defensive Player of the Year, went all the way back to an Instagram photo Kutcher posted on Jan. 15, 2018 and posted it on his story. The photo shows Kutcher in a bathrobe holding a drink in a pre-workout bottle with sunglasses on.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother casual,\u201d Simmons wrote with the photo.<\/p>\n

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Ben Simmons posted a photo of Wizards announcer Justin Kutcher to his Instagram story.<\/figcaption>
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Kutcher, who also works for Fox Sports, was right about taking \u201cflak\u201d for his hot take. Former NBA star Kendrick Perkins, who won an NBA championship with the Celtics in 2008, eviscerated Kutcher on Twitter<\/a> for his take on Simmons.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid he just say that Ben Simmons is the most overrated player in the league?\u201d Perkins wrote. \u201cShame on him. This gotta be the most disturbing thing I\u2019ve heard all year. He do realize that Simmons is the front runner for DPOY?! #ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Kutcher doubled-down<\/a> on his opinion of Simmons, taking to Twitter<\/a> shortly after the game<\/a> to repeat his assessment but also clarify he didn\u2019t mean that the three-time All-Star was bad.<\/p>\n

\u201cYep, I said that Ben Simmons is one of the most overrated plyrs in the NBA, and I stand by it,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI didn\u2019t say he was BAD, just not as good as everyone makes him out to be. GREAT defender, potential DPOY, but I think he\u2019s made All League\/All Star Teams based on hype. And..goodnight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simmons is currently averaging 16 points, nearly eight assists and eight rebounds per game.\n <\/p><\/div>\n