Are things turning around? Can stability return?
A player’s surgery hardly qualifies as good news, but in the case of Ben Simmons, it did seem to settle things down ... a bit. Simmons had a physical issue of long standing which is now being corrected. Good for him. So much of what was hurled at him after he was declared out of Game 4 now seems a bit over the top.
Nothing much new elsewhere. Kevin Durant made appearances in support of ex-teammate and friend Mike James in Monaco and Athens. Kyrie Irving spoke on a podcast affiliated with KD’s ventures and other than Seth Curry making back-to-back courtside appearances at Game 3 of the Sixers-Heat series and Liberty opener, that was that.