Ben Simmons joins Sixers fans, does the ‘raise the cat’ gesture (PHOTOS)

Ben Simmons hasn’t played a game in a Sixers uniform yet, but he’s already embracing the culture, and that’s pretty cool.

There are a lot of reasons to be excited right now, as the Sixers have won three in a row, and have a legitimate winning streak going. So they started a new movement called “raise the cat,” where they literally hoist cats over their heads.

Simmons joined them on Saturday.

https://twitter.com/BenSimmons25/status/822900873466679296

He just wasn’t sure how the trend came to be.

https://twitter.com/BenSimmons25/status/822881188662706177

For the record, this is how it started.

SIXERS WIN pic.twitter.com/PgYrDbQBWk

— Dennis (@GipperGrove) November 12, 2016

So, this is now a thing.