Free agent ahead Ben Simmons is predicted to be a full participant with “zero restrictions” at a player-led personal minicamp for the Australian males’s basketball staff, starting Monday in Melbourne, a supply advised ESPN Andscape on Sunday.
Simmons, 30, did not play within the 2025-26 NBA season in hopes of totally recovering from again and different accidents. The four-time All-Star final performed for the LA Clippers, whom he signed with in February 2025 after he was waived by the Brooklyn Nets. He appeared in 18 regular-season video games with the Clippers, plus one other 5 within the playoffs.
A number of NBA groups have expressed curiosity in Simmons, who’s open to signing a minimal contract, based on sources. One supply stated he has a non-guaranteed supply on the desk for coaching camp with a Western Convention staff.
Arizona State assistant David Patrick, who’s Simmons’ godfather and an assistant coach for the Australian nationwide staff, advised Andscape that Simmons has regained his athleticism. He has been figuring out primarily in Miami, the place he lives.
Simmons, a Melbourne native, hopes to play for the Boomers through the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. He paid his personal option to attend this week’s minicamp.
Simmons has twice performed for Australia on the 2013 FIBA Males’s Oceania Championships as a 17-year-old, however did not take part within the subsequent three Olympic Video games regardless of being thought of a possible participant.
The No. 1 decide of the 2016 draft and 2018 Rookie of the 12 months, Simmons earned three straight All-Star nods from 2019 to 2021, a 2020 All-NBA third-team choice and two All-Defensive first-team picks in 2020 and 2021.
Accidents, nonetheless, severely plagued the trajectory of his NBA profession, and he has not performed greater than 60 video games in a season since 2018-19.
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