{"id":883070,"date":"2026-09-07T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/883070\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:00:12","slug":"ben-simmons-has-the-third-highest-nba-2k-rating-of-any-aussie-entering-the-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/883070\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Simmons has the third-highest NBA 2K rating of any Aussie entering the new season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">He\u2019s returning to the NBA after a season-long hiatus &#8211; but Ben Simmons is the third-best Australian player in the world\u2019s top league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">That\u2019s according to video game NBA 2K27, which has added Simmons off the back of last week\u2019s news that the 30-year-old will feature for Sacramento when the new campaign begins next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Simmons has been handed an overall player rating of 77. That places him behind only Chicago star Josh Giddey (84) and Atlanta\u2019s defensive ace Dyson Daniels (81) for Australian players in the game.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/9c71868d83b057960557838d5df35249a3fb3fe8.jpg\" alt=\"Simmons during his most recent NBA stint.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconSimmons during his most recent NBA stint. Credit: AAP<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Daniels\u2019 Hawks teammate Jock Landale is rated below Simmons at 75 overall, with new Laker Matisse Thybulle at 74 and recently-traded Utah wing Josh Green at 73.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Simmons hasn\u2019t been sighted in the NBA since his most recent stint with the LA Clippers in the 2025 playoffs in April last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A three-time All Star, Simmons has earned his chance to return to the US with the lowly Kings off the back of an encouraging showing at an Australian Boomers mini camp last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s returning to the NBA after a season-long hiatus &#8211; but Ben Simmons is the third-best Australian player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,726,590,588,85],"class_list":["post-883070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883070","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=883070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}