{"id":20303,"date":"2025-07-25T04:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20303\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T04:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:55:07","slug":"ben-simmons-to-decide-on-new-team-by-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20303\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Simmons To Decide On New Team By Next Week?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/simmobe01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ben Simmons<\/a>, an unrestricted free agent, is \u201cprobably\u201d going to sign with a new team by next week, ESPN\u2019s Brian Windhorst <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@windhorstespn\/post\/DMdPNnRp1PM\/yo-cat-this-is-your-burning-question-im-told-hes-probably-going-to-make-a-choice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported on Threads<\/a> (hat tip to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/celtics\/2025\/07\/boston-celtics-free-agent-target-to-make-decision-in-next-week-report.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brian Robb of MassLive<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Windhorst mentioned the Kings, Suns, Knicks and Celtics as teams that have been linked to Simmons, confirming previous reporting from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/fischers-latest-simmons-brogdon-kuminga-celtics.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jake Fischer<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/steins-latest-simmons-cp3-clippers-nuggets-simons-mavs.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marc Stein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons is a three-time All-Star who has made a pair of All-Defensive first teams and was the Defensive Player of the Year runner-up in 2021, but he has battled back issues in recent years and has been a tricky fit in lineups that feature any other non-shooters. In 51 total appearances for the Nets and Clippers last season, he averaged 5.0 points, 5.6 assists, and 4.7 rebounds in 22.0 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/sixers\/sixers-ben-simmons-unsigned-nba-free-agent-fall-from-grace-20250724.html?int_promo=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">subscriber-0nly story<\/a> for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Keith Pompey takes a look at how Simmons\u2019 career has been derailed, with back injuries the primary culprit. While he\u2019s no longer the player he once was, the 29-year-old remains a talented and versatile defender, according to Pompey, who writes that Simmons is still worthy of an NBA roster spot.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons seems likely to receive a minimum-salary contract from whichever team he picks, considering the former No. 1 overall pick has become a \u201csituational role player,\u201d as Pompey puts it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Simmons, an unrestricted free agent, is \u201cprobably\u201d going to sign with a new team by next week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,15607,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-20303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-ben-simmons","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}