Ben Simmons abandoned the nets after the team and the old choice n ° 1 accept a buyout

New York (AP) – Ben Simmons was lifted by the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday after the team accepted a takeover with the last link remaining in an era of construction stranded around the stars.

The n ° 1 choice of the 2016 draft was not with the nets for their Miami’s warmth victory Friday evening when the teams were working to conclude the agreement.

Coach Jordi Fernandez praised Simmons before the match for having fallen from a series of injuries that caused a period so ineffective in Brooklyn.

“I know that not playing for a season, then limited the games another season and fighting now back, playing, I think it was a little more than 20 minutes or from the mid -20s,” said Fernandez , during his first season with the Nets. “So it’s pretty good. Really good to see this after having undergone an operation, now being back to play basketball. »»

But it is much less than the hoped for when they acquired the triple all-star in a business for James Harden on the 2022 commercial deadline. He could never join Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving on the ground this Season after having injured your back trying to make your way in shape after sitting in the first half of this season in Philadelphia.

Injury problems, mainly due to nerve lesions on the back, continued to limit Simmons. He only managed half of the 2022-23 season, during which during and Irving were both exchanged and only played 15 games last season.

Simmons played in 33 of the 52 net games this season, from 24 years old and collected on average 6.2 points and 6.9 assists.

Simmons wins $ 40 million this season and would be a free agent thereafter. ESPN reported that he would meet Cleveland and the Clippers of Los Angeles about the signature with them for the rest of this season.

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