I agree with both you and
@2 For The Brew . I think they both have culpability here.
Again, for me, the issue is that they're using mental illness as a justification for Simmons not being able to play now for Philly - but that he will magically be able to play for a team he is traded to.
It reminds me of an Abnormal Psychology class I took in college. On the first day of class, the prof gave us a homework assignment - on the day of the next day's class, we were to wear two different shoes all day. Like a dress shoe on one foot and a sneaker on the other. The professor's idea was that people with mental illnesses feel as though their condition is glaringly obvious to the world, to the point where others will notice and possibly laugh; and he wanted us students to get a taste of that feeling.
Of course, all of us students wore our normal shoes all day, ducked into a bathroom just before class to put on the other shoe, and walked into class as though we had been wearing it all day. And then right after class, we took off the mismatched shoe, took the "correct" shoe out of our backpacks, put it on, and went back to normal.
Simmons and Paul are acting as though his mental "illness" is as easy as taking shoes on and off, and that as soon as Simmons is traded, he'll take off the mismatched shoe and put the correct one on. The whole point is that mental illness doesn't work that way. It's no different than me claiming I have cancer right now, and then tomorrow, I don't. It's nothing more than an act, a performance designed to keep Simmons from playing while still collecting paychecks. And it's bullshit.