Nets’ Ben Simmons is ‘100% healthy,’ doing skill work rather than rehabbing back injury, per report

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Ben Simmons of the Brooklyn Nets is getting back to normal, according to multiple reports. On Thursday, SNY’s Ian Begley reported that Simmons is 100% healthy after missing the last two months of the regular season because of a back injury. Simmons hasn’t had any setbacks in the offseason and, now that he’s no longer rehabilitating the injury, he is doing skill work and conditioning to gear up for training camp, SNY reported, citing league sources. 

On “NBA Today” on Wednesday, ESPN’s Marc Spears cited a source close to Simmons saying that he is on the right track and close to being ready for the regular season. 

The full quote, which Spears read aloud:

I would say he’s in the final stage of prep for the season and he has passed every benchmark and is as healthy as he has ever been since his last year in Philly. Brooklyn has been incredibly supportive and the plan is for him to be the Nets’ point guard and primary ballhandler this coming season. The expectation is he will fully resume his career at the level he has [played at] prior to leaving Philadelphia.

There is suddenly all sorts of Simmons optimism in the air. The panel on “NBA Today” used Mikal Bridges’ recent appearance on Paul George’s podcast, in which he expressed support for Simmons and confidence in his ability to return to form, as a jumping-off point for its discussion.

Back in April, after the Nets announced that he would miss the rest of the 2022-23 season because of a nerve impingement in his back, Simmons’ agent, Bernie Lee, told the New York Post‘s Brian Lewis that he “will be healthy to start the next season, for sure,” adding that his difficulties in Brooklyn were “part of the recovery from his previous procedure.” (Simmons had back surgery in May 2022, a microdiscectomy to address a herniated disk.) On July 9 in Las Vegas during summer league, Nets general manager Sean Marks told reporters that Simmons had not played 3-on-3 or 5-on-5 yet but was in “great physical shape” and raring to go. Based on ESPN and SNY’s reporting, Simmons has made significant progress in…

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Author : James Herbert

Publish date : 2023-07-27 17:39:46

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