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Let's pray that Ben Simmons and Kendall Jenner don't make it through the summer | Elizabeth Wellington

This summer’s latest celebrity romance: Philadelphia 76er Ben Simmons and supermodel Kendall Jenner leaves me flummoxed.

My first reaction is to giggle .

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My second is fear for the 6-foot 10-inch point guard. Run, brother run! There hasn’t been an athlete — let alone a black man — alive who has emerged from the clutches of this reality television family’s cray-cray unscathed. Just ask Kanye West and Lamar Odom.

Then there is the part of me that’s ashamed.

Elizabeth, really?