re: Ben Simmons out for the year with a back injury

Even though I've been folowing LSU basketball recruiting since the John Williams days, Ben Simmons is the only prospect (& LSU commit) I ever got to see in HS (Montverde played a game at the Alario Center in Westwego, La, two miles from my house, where he shined that night with 3 pointers, dunks & gorgeous passes).

I thought much like Shaq, I thought I'd be witnessing a future No. 1 pick who'd dominate the NBA for a decade or more.

While he was a number one pick, he underwhelmed at LSU & was a colossal fail in the NBA. It might be worse having seen him dominate at the HS level knowing what could have been.