Actually, I don’t understand why he still keeps being paid for doing nothing. Clearly his mind is not ready anymore to play on NBA due to the severe back injury rehabilitation that haunt him mentally and physically.
I think he should just retired or play on lower league that will help him boost his mental strength when he once gain self confidence.
It's because he might want to continue with his career as a player and still earn millions. Yes, as per our observations, his mind is not in the game already. And it's more on his mentality that really cause his downturn in the league. And I do agree, he created this issue on himself with the Sixers. But if there are teams that really still saw his potential to be coming off the bench and provided some scoring or ball distribution then there will be teams willing to get him. But as far as getting back to his former self? I doubt it, unless he really was able to forget everything and started from scratch and play that hard again and gain his self confidence back.
It’s just ironic for him to still want to signed deal while he doesn’t want to play proper when given a chance to prove himself. I believe his goal is more on getting as much possible $ while still some team wants him to give a contract.
He now has 1M salary on LA Clippers that known for acquiring old players with good records before. I think they might give Ben a ball time as bench.
Wasting this opportunity to improve his performance will surely make almost no team will give him a contract.