Sixers still plan on making Simmons their point guard of the future

The plan remains unchanged for the No. 1 pick.

According to head coach Brett Brown, the Philadelphia 76ers are committed to installing Ben Simmons as their point guard of the future once he makes his recovery from offseason knee surgery.

"When he's ready to go to the court, my intention is to give him the ball and let him be the point guard," Brown said, according to Keith Pompey of Philly.com. "That's the plan. That doesn't just happen. It takes a little bit of time to introduce him."

Simmons' frame (6-foot-10, 250 pounds) mirrors that of a power forward, but he's a tremendous athlete who runs like the wind, is blessed with creative court vision, and is most effective with the ball in his hands. It's for that reason that he has drawn impossibly lofty comparisons to LeBron James - that mix of size and skill is otherwise unprecedented.

Besides, it's not as if anyone is standing in Simmons' way. Philadelphia's current guards (Jerryd Bayless, Sergio Rodriguez, T.J. McConnell) are better suited as backups, and present nothing close to the long-term potential he offers.