Because he's supposed to be fucking injured and too injured to play. At least Ben Simmons is smart enough not to act like Blake Griffin while he's sitting on the bench.
Yet, he's not shooting jumpers, he's doing windmill dunks like he's warming up for the dunk contest.
and what the fuck was your name before?
Who do you think you are-- Ernie Terrell?
From our recent exchanges, I had the impression that you watched enough basketball and were intelligent enough to know that there's a difference between healthy enough to dunk-- even impressively-- and healthy enough to play high-stakes NBA basketball. I guess I was wrong.
The more relevant Griffin here is David Griffin, the Pelicans VP who explained "He went up and windmill-dunked pregame. That's not the skill set that makes you capable of playing 5-on-5 basketball. So for people to now say, 'He chose not to play basketball,' that's nonsense. That's not factual." And it's a really basic concept.