Adrian Wojnarowski and Ramona Shelburne discussed the current trade value of Ben Simmons approximately one week before the trade deadline as Daryl Morey and the Philadelphia 76ers continue to make him available in a deal while maintaining that a move isn’t necessary at this time.
“The value is… there are a lot of teams who want him, but I don’t know there’s anybody who thinks we can’t live without him,” said Wojnarowski on his podcast. “They certainly don’t value him at the level Philly has wanted in trade packages.
“And so you’ve seen, you know we reported last week Sacramento said ‘We’re out.’ They’ve been telling teams that. Other teams, they feel not only is the asking price too high from Philly. Even if it went down some it would still be too high. It won’t get far enough down for them to make a deal. They just don’t want to waste time on it. They have to improve their team in Sacramento.”
Wojnarowski went on to say that the Kings were really motivated to trade for Simmons.
“There are a lot of GMs who will tell you, I had one tell me today, certainly a team that has the pieces to do a Ben Simmons’ trade… ‘Daryl has to call me. I’m not calling him. He has to call me with offers.’ There are teams who feel that.”