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Ben Simmons returns to Philly... shall we reflect on the Process era’s most vexed & volatile chapter?

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Last May, Jimmy Butler came to town and we had to look back at the post-Process era’s biggest what if....

Now, Ben Simmons is visiting Philadelphia, for the first time as a player who will (presumably) play, since being traded back on Feb. 10, 2022. Fans got to serenade him with boos once, last March, but he was just sitting on the bench, dealing with a back injury that would eventually necessitate surgery. Although many fans assumed he just didn’t want to play at the scene of the Hawks Game 7 crime. Still, it wasn’t the same.