{"id":933111,"date":"2026-10-18T23:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933111\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T23:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:28:12","slug":"ben-simmons-suffers-achilles-injury-derailing-promising-nba-comeback-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933111\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Simmons suffers Achilles injury, derailing promising NBA comeback bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Ben Simmons&#8217;s burgeoning NBA comeback has been halted after he suffered a torn Achilles during practice just days out from the season-opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Australian had shown promising signs during the Sacramento Kings&#8217; pre-season contests after spending all of last season away from the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 30-year-old&#8217;s career has been derailed by injuries over the past five years. Prior to his injury issues, Simmons made three NBA All-Star teams and was considered one of the best defensive players in the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Simmons signed a one-year deal with the Kings last month.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Simmons&#8217;s burgeoning NBA comeback has been halted after he suffered a torn Achilles during practice just days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,726,15607,3899,590,5674,85],"class_list":["post-933111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-ben-simmons","tag-injury","tag-nba","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933111","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=933111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}