{"id":933081,"date":"2026-10-18T22:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933081\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:58:09","slug":"cruel-blow-simmons-revival-halted-by-suspected-achilles-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933081\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruel blow: Simmons revival halted by suspected Achilles tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Simmons is believed to have torn his Achilles at Kings practice, a suspected season-ending blow.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Simmons is believed to have torn his Achilles tendon at Kings practiceESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania reports the injury is suspected to be season-endingThe Australian had impressed through Sacramento&#8217;s training camp and preseason<\/p>\n<p>Ben Simmons is feared to have suffered a season-ending injury, with the Sacramento Kings guard believed to have torn his Achilles tendon at practice on Sunday (US time), <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2111949144210464799?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is a cruel blow for the Australian, who had been in rejuvenated form through Kings training camp and the preseason as he looked to relaunch his NBA career in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>The injury comes on the same day ESPN premiered their long awaited documentary called &#8220;Being Ben&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>MORE TO COME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Simmons is believed to have torn his Achilles at Kings practice, a suspected season-ending blow. Ben Simmons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-933081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933081","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=933081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}