NEW YORK (AP) — Ben Simmons will miss the rest of the season, the third straight 12 months the previous All-Star’s season has ended early due to again issues.
The Brooklyn Nets stated Thursday that Simmons will use the remainder of this season to seek the advice of with specialists and search therapy choices for the pinched nerve in his decrease again that has sidelined him twice this season.
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Ben Simmons will stay out for the rest of the season whereas he consults with specialists and explores therapy choices for the nerve impingement in his decrease again. Simmons, alongside along with his representatives and Nets medical personnel, are…
— Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) March 7, 2024
Simmons has been restricted to fifteen video games this season. He missed 38 straight at one level and has sat out the final 5.
“Simmons, alongside along with his representatives and Nets medical personnel, are at the moment in discussions with quite a few consultants to find out the plan of action that may present him with the perfect alternative for long-term sustainable well being,” the Nets stated.
The No. 1 choose within the 2016 draft finishes with averages of 6.1 factors, 7.9 rebounds and 5.7 assists. He has performed in simply 57 video games and has not completed a season because the Nets acquired him from Philadelphia on the commerce deadline in 2022 within the deal that despatched James Harden to the 76ers.
Simmons hadn’t performed for Philadelphia to start out that season, citing psychological well being issues, after which harm his again making an attempt to regain his conditioning after arriving in Brooklyn. He had a microdiscectomy, a process to take away a small fragment of a herniated disc, after that season ended.
Simmons then performed in simply 42 video games in 2022-23 earlier than he was shut down in March due to a nerve impingement in his decrease again.
He was wholesome once more and reinstalled as the start line guard to start this season, however then was injured in a Nov. 6 loss to Milwaukee. It was initially believed that was a left hip harm earlier than an MRI examination decided that the ache was attributable to his decrease again.
Simmons didn’t play once more till Jan. 29, when he had 10 factors, 11 assists and eight rebounds in 18 minutes off the bench in a rout of Utah. However he performed in solely eight extra video games.
Simmons has one 12 months and about $40 million remaining on his contract.