Ben Simmons gave up the networks after the team and former selection # 1 agreed to buy – KTVN

New York (AP) -Be Simmons was denied by Brooklyn networks on Saturday after the team agreed to buy with the last remaining connection with the unsuccessful era of construction around all stars.

The # 1 selection in the 2016 project was not with the networks for their victory over Miami Heath on Friday night, as the parties were working to end the deal.

Coach Jordi Fernandez praised Simmons before the match for going back from a series of injuries that caused such an ineffective time in Brooklyn.

“I know he doesn’t play for a season and then limit the matches for another season and now he’s fighting his way back, playing, I think it was just over 20 minutes or the mid-20s,” Fernandez said in his first season With Nets. “So it’s pretty good. It is really good to see that after you go through surgery, you are now coming back to play basketball. “

But this is much less than the networks hoped when they acquired the three-time All-Star in trading for James Harden in the 2022 trade period. After hurting his back, trying to get back in shape after sitting in the first half of this season in Philadelphia.

The problems with the injury, most of all, due to damage to the lower nerve on the back, continued to limit Simmons. He went through only half of the 2022-23 season, during which Durant and Irving were traded and played only 15 games last season.

Simmons played in 33 of the 52 Nets games this season, starting 24, and an average of 6.2 points and 6.9 assists.

Simmons has won $ 40 million this season and will be a free agent after that. ESPN has announced that he will meet Cleveland and Los Angeles Clippers to sign them by the end of this season.

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