Sixers rookie Ben Simmons rips the NCAA in new documentary

Sixers forward Ben Simmons rips the NCAA in a new documentary for allowing Lousiana State to exploit his talents on the basketball court without paying him.

"Everybody's making money except the players. We're the ones waking up early as hell to beat the best teams and do everything they want us to do and then the players get nothing," the injured Sixers rookie says in One and Done, a new documentary that will air at 9 p.m. on Friday on Showtime. "They say education, but if I'm there for a year, I can't get much education."

The documentary follows Simmons from his upbringing in Australia through his high school career in Orlando, but it's the year he spent at LSU that's at the heart of the film. Simmons calls out the NCAA as hypocrites for refusing to pay "amateur" college athletes while simultaneously making "hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars" off a single player.

The Sixers rookie also claims that he had to resist the "temptations" of offers, which he says included a "Bentley, a Wraith Rolls-Royce, watches, jewelry, a house ... anything. It literally is anything. People coming at you, offering you things."

His mother, Julie Simmons, also appears in the documentary and says she feared the NCAA would "unravel" her son's career. She also didn't approve of the regulations placed upon him.

"If you get a kid who's a child prodigy and plays the violin amazingly, no one's saying to them 'You must go to college for a year before you join the philharmonic orchestra,' " she said.

CBS basketball analyst Doug Gottlieb challenged Simmons on the documentary, claiming the rookie was being a hypocrite himself for making money off the project while playing in college. But Simmons shot right back, claiming he didn't earn a penny from the film.

Watch the trailer: