{"id":454497,"date":"2026-09-05T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454497\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T12:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:47:26","slug":"reports-ben-simmons-agrees-to-one-year-deal-with-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454497\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Ben Simmons agrees to one-year deal with Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1840185\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1840185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2211181725.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Simmons #25 of the LA Clippers dribbles the ball during the game against the Denver Nuggets during Round 1 Game 3 of the 2025 NBA Playoffs on April 24, 2025 at Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1840185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Simmons looks to return to the NBA after not playing since the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento Kings have reportedly agreed to a one-year, $3.5 million deal with Ben Simmons, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2095867897146937644?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">per ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania<\/a>. The three-time All-Star will return to the NBA after sitting out the entire 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Ben Simmons suited up in the NBA was during the 2024-25 season with the Brooklyn Nets and LA Clippers. In 51 games, he averaged 5.0 points, 5.6 assists and 4.7 rebounds in 22.0 minutes per contest.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just in: Three-time All-Star Ben Simmons has agreed on a one-year, $3.5 million deal with the Sacramento Kings, his agents Max Wiepking, Sean Tribe and Ryan Arney tell me and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarcJSpears?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@MarcJSpears<\/a>. The one-time All-NBA star is back in the NBA for a 10th season after sitting out 2025-26. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xj5X7lr3op\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xj5X7lr3op<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2095867897146937644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2095869070469939490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2095869070469939490%7Ctwgr%5E8eada101dbb18c27cd9d21347632d48d28fdecbc%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.x.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FShamsCharania%2Fstatus%2F2095869070469939490\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shams reported<\/a> that Simmons traveled to visit the Kings in Sacramento on Monday, undergoing in-depth medical exams, an on-court workout and meetings with coach Doug Christie and numerous staffers.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, Simmons has been a versatile threat on both ends of the floor, earning one All-NBA selection.<\/p>\n<p>NBA.com will provide more information as this story develops.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Simmons looks to return to the NBA after not playing since the 2024-25 season. The Sacramento Kings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[103859,121,123,128,122],"class_list":["post-454497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-ben-simmons","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}