On March 13, Beijing time, Nets player Mills was interviewed by the media after training, and he also talked about his new teammate Ben Simmons, and encouraged the latter, but Mills's words of encouragement made people a little confused whether it was blowing or black.
Because Mills, referring to Ben Simmons, directly compared his teammate Maddie when he played for the Spurs in 2013. "Maddie didn't play a game in the regular season, but went straight to our first game in the playoffs, where he did so well that we even made it to the Finals," he said. ”
The Nets have 15 regular season games left this season, and whether Ben Simmons will still appear in the regular season is not a good bet at the moment, which may be the reason mills compares him to Maddie.
But the problem is that Maddy did not participate in the regular season at that time, because he directly joined Qingdao to play in the CBA League, and after returning to the Spurs in the playoffs, Maddy only played 6 playoff games, did not score 1 point, and averaged only 1.3 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game.
At that time, Maddy was just a "mascot" used by the Spurs to fill the place when they played in the playoffs, but Ben Simmons's situation was obviously completely different from Maddy's. After all, the outside world regards him as one of the big three alongside Durant and Irving.
Because of this, some fans expressed incomprehension of Mills' remarks, and even could not tell whether it was a "friendly army" or an "enemy army".