[R.Simmons] Joe Lacob on a Ben Simmons Trade: "In some ways, it doesn’t really fit what we’re doing. He makes a lot of money. And, can he finish games? I don’t know. He’s very talented. The problem is: We have Draymond...That’s one issue. The salary structure is another."

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Look, the Warriors probably aren’t trading for Ben Simmons.

In an interview with The Chronicle on Tuesday, Warriors owner Joe Lacob said in reference to a “Defensive Player of the Year candidate in Philadelphia” while being careful to not get fined for tampering: “I think we are always looking at everything to see if we can improve our team. We would always look.”

But NBA sources say the Philadelphia asking price has been exorbitant.

“In some ways, it doesn’t really fit what we’re doing. He makes a lot of money. And, can he finish games? I don’t know,” Lacob said. “He’s very talented. The problem is: We have Draymond. Draymond and him are very similar in the sense that neither one really shoots and they do a lot of the playmaking. That’s one issue. The salary structure is another.”

Simmons is set to make $33 million in 2021-22, a salary that increases to $40.3 in 2024-25.

The Warriors, scheduled to pay an epic $176.8 million for their roster before camp opens Tuesday, could offer only Wiggins at $31.6 million or Green ($24 million) and James Wiseman, Jonathan Kuminga or Moses Moody.

It sounds like none of that is going to happen.