One of their stars plus mega nba contracts. We will start with the first overall pick. Did you see ben simmons practice. Yes, i did. I love what i saw. The future. The future is now. I cant wait. There is a lot of people that cannot do it at that size when he gets to the basket. We will see that, right here good check out ben simmons on the court for the First Summer League practice in utah. Games underway tomorrow. Now simmons showing a little fire right there. Mike, how about this spin move right here. Yes. There you go. Look at the strength. I love it. Now what do you want to see out of simmons as games getting tomorrow. I want to see him do these things where he uses his strength, his size, and his speed. He will be a point forward. He will have the ball in his hand. Look at that stroke. It doesnt look bad. I want to see him make that shot guarded off a dribble. Only thing that i have to see. When you goes to the basket he puts it behind his back. He knows how to use his body to get to the center a way from him to score. Simmons as you can imagine, is exited to finally be out here to practice today. It is a macing. It feels so good to be part of a team and being on the court, you know, first time i have played since my last game at lsu. I was rusty but as long as im working hard that is all i can ask of myself. As long as everybody on the court is working hard as a team, were good. A lot of people will be coming for me because that i have number one spot. It has always been like that for me since high school, everyone has really wanted to go at me. It is fun. He will be fun to watch. Simmons says he doesnt want to see how he play as begins other nba rookies in the Summer League but judge himself base on the way he plays likely brandon james, and others in the season. Is he putting too much pressure on himself. He is smart. He knows playing against these guys, lot of knees guys will not stick in the league. Whatever he does in this Summer League will not carry over, to the fan base that he is going to be a future star. He has to do it in the league himself. He will have a lot of ball teams. He will in the be ready to play with the lebron in the world. It will take a while. Sixers they have made a point to say all of the pressure should not be on his shoulders. Jamie apody went one on one with sixers coach brett brown. How do you acclimate him to the team, the town, the nba. Well, i dont think there is a blueprint where, you know, it is perfectly scripted in a book. I think for me it is more of who we are, you want to educate him on what our version of culture equals. Reporter this is a fun time as a coach. I love it. I think you have a real story to tell. We have players, and first round draft picks and a brand new pristine practice facility about to be opened in september. You got the city of philadelphia. I think we have a heck of a story to tell. I think the story will only get better brett brown went on to say he believes they will be able to fight for nba teams for big time free agent names. Free agency has been out of control. Sixers not really coming up with anyone yet but look at these hundred milliondollar contracts out there to see. Players that are not even all stars, mike connolly, bradley deal, evan turner, 70 milliondollar from port land. Turner is guarantied money. Guys like tom brady, eli manning and drew brees. That is insanity of this whole thing, two word evan turner. Seventy milliondollar. Et. That explains the whole thing. Evan turner of portland is interesting because that freeze up maybe a guard, a young guard in allen crabbe who was a parttime player last year but up and coming player. These are types of free agents restrict free agents that the sixers have to target and make these max kind of offers that the other team cannot match. They gave 07 million to evan turner. I dont know if they have a money to keep alan crabbe. He would be an ideal guy to get, younger guy, younger free agent who can grow with this young process. Guys like rondo and crawford, and guys like that they would not fit in. Sixers will not be goodbye the time those guys are really old. They have lost out on those guys. One guy they have grabbed so far jared bayless, former milwaukee guard, one of the best threepoint shooters in the nba last season. Fifth best overall. Have sixers done enough mike, so far in free agency. Bayless is a journey man point guard. They didnt have a point guard on their roster. Ish smith signed for three years for somewhere else for big money. So they had to get somebody in there. He is a parttime player. He may wine upstarting for sixers but they have to have bigger ideas at that position. I dont know how they will do. That they might not be able to do that until next year but he is fill in player. Would have been nice to pick up another veteran. We will see what they will do. Still to come, aaron nola, well, being shut down after the allstar break. That is the best decision. Plus you may in the recognize the phillies, they are number one hitting team in baseball the last few weeks. But first lets go to melissa for weather. Jeff and mike, thanks. Heres the the exclusive seven day forecast. Increasing included on monday. Afternoon and evening rain developing for the fourth of july, a High Temperature of 79. Showers around early on tuesday and then humid day, in at 88. Quick rising temperatures, wednesday in at 94. Hot and sticky thursday 94. Possible heat wave into next friday, that is latest from accu weather. Action news sports sunday continues after the break. Movie up in the air to watch while shes. Up in the air. Thats the power of fiber optics. And right now you can get 100 meg internet with equal upload and downloads speeds, tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. Number one batting average in baseball after a slow start the most promising thing here may be Miguel Franco is heating up. Tuesday is was talking about how dead they were as a team. One week and now they are the back on top ape hitting the baseball. Miguel franco 14th home run, that is pretty good. He hits 30 home runs this year that is a special year for him. Average starting to get up as well. Phillies striking first in the final a begins the royals, first inning, how about cameron rupp a three run shot. Phillies out to a three to nothing lead. Theyre not done. How about third inning, codey asche in the upper deck, asche, rupp and Miguel Franco three, four, five hitters combining for six rbi, six hits, three home runs. Eighth inning, franco goes. Phillies win seventwo. They have won seven out of their last ten. Now that is the good news. Heres the bad news. Aaron nola basically being shut down until after the allstar break. His last five starts, worst stretch of his career. Is this the best decision or would you like to see him continue to pitch, in colorado. I think it is really smart. He needs to step away from the game right now, figure out, look at video. Would you send him to triple a. It came contact close. If he comes back after this, and still has not having success he is close to getting sent down to triple a. He lost his command which means he lost his confidence. Good to sit him down for time being. But that might be a ticket to triple a eventually. Twentyseven earned runs in his last five starts, 18 innings. He says he is healthy. Finally former eagles legendary coach buddy ryan laid to rest on friday at the age of 85. Mike, we have talk about buddy ryan here, all week long. He never won a playoff game. Zero and three as eagles coach. Why was he so beloved here. He said what was on his mind and in philadelphia when you say what is on your mind they like you. When you are honest with people and when you are anti management, which he was, i mean that resonates in philadelphia. He didnt like norman bramman. People related to that whole thing. He loved his players. He sided with his players over management. They loved him for that. And, youre right, it is really odd that he gets more acclaim then andy reid who won shore games. Is he most popular coach in eagles his try. You know, it is close to being the popular. I hate to do that because andy reid is the best coach in philadelphia history but you have to say buddy probably most popular. We have on great buddy ryan quote, one of my favorites if you listened to the fans you will be sitting up there were them. Another one quarterbacks are over paid, over rated, pompus and must be punish. That is yes never won a playoff game because of that quote, because he didnt think the offense was good enough. It was all defense with buddy ryan. If he had any kind of offense he would have had won a playoff game. Offense for rannal cunningham to make five big plays and a win and that was it. We sat there you knew could you imagine if chip kill difficult that. Buddy got away with that. Twitter would have exploded. Within of my favorites describing ernest jackson, quote, buddy says trade him for a six pack, he doesnt he have to be cold he called him by his number. I miss buddy. Finally football, kickers are like taxi cabs you can always get another one, to get. I share his opinion on kickers. We will miss buddy ryan. For mike missanelli, im jeff skversky. That is action news sports sunday. Happy fourth. Im karen rogers. Im alicia vitarelli. And im melissa magee. Saturday tonight on fyi philly. Oooh, that is so good were getting ready for the 4th of july with tips from a barbecue champion. Its like a party in a pot who needs the beach . Were clam baking in the city were sipping and dipping. And hitting a neighborhood pool thats been calling my name. We check out some Outdoor Dining options. Spend the day at dorney park. That is so cool. And learn some hot ways to style summer hair. Hi everyone and welcome to fyi philly. We are celebrating Independence Day with a picnic right here on our 6abc patio. And weve got a barbecue champion here manning the grill. Kenny has been competing for more than a decade. He and his wife are the honey bears bbq team. So we hit him up for some tips to take our fourth of july feast to the next level