{"id":248550,"date":"2022-11-03T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T19:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=248550"},"modified":"2022-11-04T07:59:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T07:59:35","slug":"under-fire-simmons-ruled-out-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=248550","title":{"rendered":"Under fire Simmons ruled out with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/ben-simmons\" title=\"Ben Simmons\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Simmons<\/a> will miss at least the next two games with left knee soreness, extending his absence to at least four in a row in his first season playing for the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n<p>Jacque Vaughn, coaching the team following the ouster of Steve Nash, said Thursday after practice that Simmons has been getting treatment in hopes of reducing the swelling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/rugby-league-world-cup-2022-mal-meninga-names-nathan-cleary-daly-cherry-evans-kangaroos-squad-vs-lebanon\/542e583c-197c-48e2-88df-f9a7285d1c21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Meninga leaves Kangaroos headache unsolved<\/strong><\/a><strong>\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>RE\ufeffAD MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/2022-wallabies-team-news-for-france-test-taniela-tupou-starts-in-autumn-nations-series\/6058c2b4-576b-4836-a32a-90f13e2a1c0a\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Concussion opens door for Wallabies cult hero<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: \ufeff<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/t20-world-cup-2022-virat-kohli-renaissance-continues-india-defeat-bangladesh-in-final-ball-thriller\/9ada4beb-366e-4b6a-bc25-2e8033b3d006\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>How Australia helped Kohli break WC record<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vaughn said Simmons wouldn&#x27;t play at Washington on Friday or at Charlotte on Saturday. He didn&#x27;t rule out Simmons playing on Monday at Dallas in the final game of the trip.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"c401277a-8dc1-4194-b9da-978a155459c5\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c401277a-8dc1-4194-b9da-978a155459c5\" alt=\"Brooklyn Nets star Ben Simmons\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Simmons, the No. 1 pick in the 2016 draft, is returning to action after missing all of last season. <\/p>\n<p>He didn&#x27;t play to begin the year in Philadelphia because of mental health concerns, then injured his back after being traded to Brooklyn in February in the deal headlined by James Harden.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons eventually had surgery to repair a herniated disk. He averaged 6.2 points in Brooklyn&#x27;s first six games before missing the last two.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/edm?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\"><em><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ben Simmons will miss at least the next two games with left knee soreness, extending his absence to at least four in a row in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=248550\" title=\"Under fire Simmons ruled out with injury\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248552,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248550\/revisions\/248552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}