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Hank Aaron is one of the all-time greats, both as a ballplayer, and as a man.

He certainly deserved a far-better written tribute than the Worldwide Leader in Sports™ managed to shat out.

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"Isn’t this what we want of our stars?" - It's what we want from our Very Good Players. From our stars we want incandescence.

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Tom - Simmons is really freaking good, and there certainly shouldn't be an imperative to ship him out of town. But "there is no problem" takes it a little too far in the other direction: are you confident that he can be the lead perimeter creator on a successful Embiid-centric playoff offense? Even though the pieces seem to fit much better around them now, I'm still a bit skeptical - so I would say there's SOME problem, at least until proven otherwise.

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