Ben Simmons: "Towards the end of Philly, and the start of Brooklyn I feel like my mental health was all over the place. I think just having the world and all of that weight on you and then trying to look for your support and figuring out where that is at, it's tough because it's just noise. For me I feel like it took time to learn how to block it all out, which is why I'm grateful I took time off and kind of went through it all"

Doc Rivers on kicking Ben Simmons out of practice: "I think that was way overblown than what it was. Ben didn't want to be at the practice, nor did I think he should be at the practice. I didn't even notice the phone. I just noticed he didn't want to be on the floor, didn't want to do anything. But it wasn't some yelling match or anything like that. He wanted to go"