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ATLANTA -- You know the old saying: Sometimes its better to be lucky than good.Dustin Johnson? Oh, hes just good -- no luck necessary. OK, hes better than good. Already this year, his three victories include a major and a WGC event. Now he might be 18 holes away from a fourth title at the season-ending Tour Championship.The PGA Tour? Well, theyre just lucky. Or at least they will be if Johnson can clinch the win Sunday afternoon -- and every other important trophy in the process.With a victory, Johnson -- who is tied for the 54-hole lead with Kevin Chappell and 2 strokes ahead of Rory McIlroy and Ryan Moore -- will claim both the tournament title and the FedEx Cup to go along with his no-doubt-about-it Player of the Year award as voted on by his peers.Its a good look for the PGA Tour, as the system isnt necessarily set up to reward the best player and yet, thats exactly what it will do for the second consecutive year.Thats ideally what the PGA Tour will have, said Jordan Spieth, who swept those awards last year, but I dont think the system is set up for that. Honestly, the system is quite the opposite, but I think its worked the last couple of years. It happens in every sport. The Patriots went undefeated and lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl.We collectively understand it better in other sports. Teams make the playoffs, then compete against each other and the winner is the champion -- even if that team wasnt the best one during the course of the season.Maybe because theres no head-to-head matches, or maybe because a player can win the entire FedEx Cup without winning the last event -- or any event, really -- that we struggle more with the idea that a PGA Tour playoff champion can be someone other than the best player of that season.It doesnt always work out that way. Actually, it more frequently doesnt work out that way.Two years ago, Billy Horschel won the final two playoff events to claim a deserving FedEx title -- but there was little argument in favor of him as the best player of the season.Same for the previous two years, when Henrik Stenson and Brandt Snedeker each double-dipped for hardware here at East Lake Golf Club. And the two years before that, too, when the winners of both trophies were Bill Haas and Jim Furyk.We have to go all the way back to 2009 for the last time players split these two honors. That year afforded us one of the games most awkward photos of all time, with Tiger Woods holding his FedEx Cup trophy while standing next to Phil Mickelson holding his Tour Championship trophy.Thats what wed call a bad look for the PGA Tour -- even if its exactly how the system is set up.If they dont get lucky, it could happen again.While the dream scenario, the one with no controversy or lamentation over the end result, is a singular player sweeping the end-of-season trophies to put a neat little bow around the campaign, the so-called nightmare scenario is still very much at play.If Chappell wins the tournament, but Johnson finishes in the top eight, theyll each get a trophy. If Moore wins, Johnson only needs to be in the top seven. If McIlroy wins, Johnson will need a solo second-place finish in order to claim the FedEx Cup title.Think about that: Theres a very plausible scenario in which one of the worlds best players can take two of the final three playoff events, then stand next to Johnson for an awkward post-round photo op while each raises his respective trophy in triumph.Thats probably not what the PGA Tours executives want, but the way the system is set up, thats what they might get.Sometimes its better to be lucky than good.The PGA Tour will get lucky once again if Johnson is as good for the seasons final 18 holes as hes been all year. If not, Sunday afternoon could offer the first split trophy ceremony in seven years, as awkward as that might be. Chris Lindstrom Womens Jersey . -- Patrick Reed got an early start in golf. Steve Bartkowski Youth Jersey . "Were just throwing s--- at the wall hoping something sticks," said Tortorella about the possible line combinations for Fridays game against Columbus. 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Ben Simmons can expect a baptism of fire when he pulls on a Philadelphia 76ers jersey and takes to the court as an NBA player for the first time.The 19-year-old Australian will play in an NBA Summer League game on Monday, when he will face a Boston Celtics squad filled with young, jealous and desperate players aiming to take him down.Celtics rookie guard Jaylen Brown, who sat in Brooklyns Barclays Center at the recent NBA Draft and watched as Simmons was selected No. 1 by the 76ers, told reporters he was ready to rip somebodys head off.Simmons and Brown, picked third by the Celtics, will each make their much-anticipated debut in the NBA Summer League game in Salt Lake City, Utah.The last obstacle preventing Simmons from taking to the court was erased when the 76ers announced on Sunday that he had signed his rookie contract worth more than $US 16 million ($Aus21.5 million) through the next three years..The 76ers will play three Summer League games in Salt Lake City this week before they join 23 other NBA teams for the 10-day Las Vegas Summer League tournament.Summer League teams are made up of recently acquired draft picks, second-year players and desperate young free agents hoping to score a contract, just as undrafted Australian guard Matthew Dellavedova did three years ago with the Cleveland Cavaliers.ddddddddddddSimmons, as the top draft pick, will have a bounty on his head, with opposing players looking to outplay the Australian.Brown, in particular, has not hidden his dislike for the 76ers decision to take Simmons ahead of him.At a Celtics basketball camp for children last week a video went viral of Brown playing a young boy in a game of one-on-one.Brown dunked on the boy when the boy taunted him with: You aint good. 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