According to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, Brooklyn Nets guard/forward Ben Simmons plans to make his season debut in Game 4 against Boston on Monday, as long as his “rehab remains on course.” The news comes the morning after the Celtics took a 2-0 lead over the Nets in their first-round matchup, winning Game 2, 114-107.
Time to deploy the famed “OH MY GOD, OKAY, IT’S HAPPENING” clip from “The Office.”
Wait... well, is it, or isn’t it?
The confusion arises from just the latest update in the Simmons saga, which, by now, seems to have as much lore and fan-fic material as the Harry Potter or Game of Thrones franchises.