“I was super excited to come here and join a culture that’s already been set,” Simons said at media day on Monday, per Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe. “It’s something that’s going to help my career out tremendously, playing at the highest level of winning basketball. “It’s a matter of if I want to do it or not; it’s really that simple,” Simons said, according to Washburn. To me, it’s really that simple, and that’s the honest conversations [head coach Joe Mazzulla and I] had about it. “I’ll nip that in the bud immediately,” the Celtics’ coach said, per Adam Himmelsbach of The Boston Globe.