The 76er from Philadelphia have both Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid joining the NBA as the season should resume. Simmons last played in the NBA in February. He suffered an injury in the game against Milwaukee Bucks.
Among doubts that Simmons will appear again this season, Sixers’ coach Brett Brown confirmed that the 23-year-old was ready for action.
“He is good at going. He devoted a lot of work to me to be able to say it with certainty “ Brown said during a conference call with reporters on Wednesday (H / T ESPN).
He felt that the unplanned outage gave Simmons time to recover from the injury.
“While looking for silver liners with this pandemic and the way things formed, it would be difficult for me to find something more obvious than that: it allowed Ben to recover his health. He’s good at going, and we can’t wait to watch him with what I’m told he is actually 100% healthy, “said Brown.
Simmons, the Sixers’ first overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft, quickly became an integral part of the team. After an injury during his project, Simmons won the rookie of the year in 2018 and was an NBA All-Star in each of the next two seasons. He averaged 16.7 points, 7.8 rebounds and 8.2 assists per game this season before the injury.
In addition to Ben Simmons, the Philadelphia 76ers coach also expects Joel Embiid to arrive in good shape
The Sixers Brown manager also expects their star center Joel Embiid to be in full form as the league’s restart date approaches. Embiid, 26, is perhaps the most important player for the Sixers. Seven feet tall, Embiid has averaged 23.4 points and 11.8 rebounds this season.
“I’m looking for Joel to get in as good a shape as he has been since I trained him”, Brown, who has been the Sixers’ head coach since 2013, said. “I think the three weeks we have together are an inverted luxury that we haven’t had. I am excited for Jo to come back to this and show what he has done in the past few months. “
