Because the world waits on the Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving drama to unfold, it’s straightforward to overlook that even when the Nets do transfer each superstars as requested, they nonetheless have one All-Star on their roster.
Ben Simmons isn’t anticipated to be going wherever, although it may take time for him to regain his All-Star kind. Considered one of his teammates admitted as a lot.
“There are all the time challenges. Foremost, he has missed a complete season. It's going to be a problem getting his rhythm again taking part in basketball,” Seth Curry, Simmons’ teammate with the 76ers and now the Nets, instructed The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald in Australia. “I don’t know particularly what he has been via, mentally — that’s exhausting for me to touch upon — however having that 12 months off, having that point off, of competing and taking part in five-on-five basketball goes to be simply as exhausting … simply taking a while and getting re-acclimated to taking part in high-level basketball, however he's a particular expertise, has all the talents. The Nets want him on the ground.”
The 6-foot-11 Simmons has performed in three All-Stars video games and at his finest was a game-changing expertise at each ends of the ground. For his profession, he has averaged 15.9 factors, 8.9 rebounds and seven.7 assists. It’s simply been so lengthy for the reason that No. 1-overall decide of the 2016 NBA Draft final performed, courting again to the 2020-21 playoffs. He then requested a commerce from the 76ers, and didn’t play for them in any respect. After coming over to the Nets in a commerce deadline blockbuster for James Harden on Feb. 10, the 26-year-old Simmons didn’t go well with up for them both.
He underwent microdiscectomy surgical procedure at Cedars-Sinai Marina Del Rey Hospital in Los Angeles on Could 5. A supply near Simmons confirmed to The Publish in June that he has began the rehab part and is on schedule to be prepared for coaching camp.
“I've seen him within the facility a few instances,” Curry stated. “Similar to I stated, [he’s] been doing lots of taking pictures, working, engaged on his physique and being within the gymnasium, so, from all the pieces I've seen, hopefully, he can be on the market able to go come coaching camp.”
There’s no telling what the composition of the Nets roster will appear like when coaching camp comes round. It may embody Durant and Irving, or it may not. The Nets will want Simmons both method.
“Clearly, he's an All-Star-caliber participant,” Curry stated. “Clearly, he's attempting to profit from this offseason, get again wholesome bodily and mentally. Like I say, he had a 12 months off, it’s going to be good for him to get again out on the court docket and get re-acclimated. He creates lots of three-point pictures for his teammates. Clearly, it helps me so much, to get good pictures. The pick-and-roll recreation, and the hand-off recreation, the two-man recreation … he is an effective man rolling to the rim and ending. Defensively … he can guard lots of positions.”
He simply hasn’t carried out any of these issues in fairly some time.
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