Ben Simmons missing game against Wizards with sore knee raises more injury questions
The questions now for the Nets are: How much time will he miss? How often it will keep happening? And how will they adjust without him — again?Monday with the injury — has already been officially ruled out of the game Wednesday against the visiting Wizards. It will be the sixth game he has missed this season.
The Nets offered no details on whether Simmons had an MRI exam or when he would return. Simmons’ agent, Rich Paul, did not respond to texts or phone messages.After missing all of last season with both mental health woes and a bad back, Simmons, who was acquired by the Nets on Feb. 10 in the trade that sent James Harden to the 76ers, underwent a microdiscectomy procedure in May to repair a herniated L-4 disk. He has since revealed that he also had nerve damage.
“[We] talked to the performance team about that. We were warned about that just as these games start to add up. His cumulative load as that begins to add up, it’s really stretching him sometimes the amount of games we’ve just had with the minutes that he’s played pretty high.”The knee issue cost him four straight games from Oct. 31 through Nov. 5, as well as the Nov. 13 loss at the Lakers.
The Nets can only hope the problem isn’t chronic, and that this latest rest proves as productive as the last one.
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